Books Tagged ‘Fiction’
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Subject: Horror
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a gothic story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch ...
Tags: Horror, Gothic, Short Stories, Fantasy, Fiction
The Time Machine
Subject: Science Fiction
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the c...
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Time Travel
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Subject: Plays
William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. His plays are constantly studied, performed an...
Tags: Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Plays, Collections
Candide
Subject: Fiction
Candide, ou l’Optimisme is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is livi...
Tags: Humor, Philosophy, Fiction, Literature
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Subject: Fiction
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the ti...
Tags: Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Literature
Anna Karenina
Subject: Fiction
Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and T...
Tags: Fiction, Historical, Romance, Russia
Sense and Sensibility
Subject: Fiction
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16½) as they come of age. They ...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature
The Divine Comedy
Subject: Poetry
The Divine Comedy is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be the pr...
Tags: Poetry, Philosophy, Fiction, Literature, Religion