Books Tagged ‘Fiction’ - Page 6
Jane Eyre
Subject: Fiction
Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name “Currer Bell”, on 16 Octo...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature, Romance
Anthem
Subject: Fiction
Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand’s classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand ex...
Tags: Classics, Philosophy, Politics, Fiction, Science Fiction
The Count of Monte Cristo
Subject: Fiction
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte...
Tags: Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Novels, Historical, France
Treasure Island
Subject: Fiction
Treasure Island (originally The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys) is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of “buccaneers and buried gol...
Tags: Classics, Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult, Fiction, Historical, Literature
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Subject: Fiction
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel’s schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischie...
Tags: Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult, Fiction, Historical, Literature
Little Women
Subject: Fiction
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England dur...
Tags: Childrens, Young Adult, Fiction, Historical, Romance
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Subject: Fantasy
The Grimm brothers were early 19th-century writers best known for their fairy tales coming from Scandinavian, Icelandic and Germanic origins. By 1807 there was a growing interes...
Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Childrens, Fiction, Literature, Fairy Tales
A Tale of Two Cities
Subject: Fiction
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two ver...
Tags: Classics, Academic, Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature