Books Tagged ‘Fiction’
Poirot Investigates
Subject: Mystery
Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. In the eleven stories, ...
Tags: Classics, Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Crime, Detective
Don Juan (poem)
Subject: Poetry
In English literature, Don Juan (1819–1824), by Lord Byron, is a satirical, epic poem that portrays Don Juan not as a womaniser, but as a man easily seduced by women. Lord Byron...
Tags: Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Romanticism, Medievalism
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Subject: Science Fiction
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel was origin...
Tags: Classics, Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, France, Cultural
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Subject: Fiction
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual aw...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Novels, Ireland, School, 20th Century
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
Subject: Fiction
The first American novel by a writer of Japanese ancestry, “The American Diary of a Japanese Girl” is a landmark of modern American fiction and Japanese-American tra...
Tags: Fiction, Literature, Cultural, Japanese
Around the World in Eighty Days
Subject: Fiction
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In t...
Tags: Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction, Travel, Cultural
Notes from Underground
Subject: Fiction
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each cen...
Tags: Classics, Philosophy, Fiction, Novels, Literature, Russia, Psychology
Persuasion(novel)
Subject: Fiction
Persuasion is the last novel completed by Jane Austen. It was published along with Northanger Abbey at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The novel was published on De...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature, Romance, British
Winnie-the-Pooh
Subject: Fiction
Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. The first...
Tags: Classics, Childrens, Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Animals, Middle Grade