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Urbain Grandier
By: Alexandre Dumas, Pere

Urbain Granadier was not satisfied with the arrogant demonstration by which he signalized his return, which even his friends had felt to be ill advised; instead of allowing the hate he had aroused to die away or at least to fall asleep by letting the past be past, he continued with more zeal than ever his proceedings against Duthibaut, and succeeded in obtaining a decree from the Parliament of La Tournelle.

Vandover and the Brute
By: Frank Norris

Vandover, fresh out of college and the son of a wealthy owner of slum properties, has dreams of being an artist but lacks the discipline to fulfill them. His seduction of a young woman results in her suicide and the death of his own father. Cheated by false friends of part of his patrimony, Vandover gambles away the rest.

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Vaninka
By: Alexander Dumas, Pere

Gregory sighed heavily, threw a last look up at the window, and seeing that everything remained the same there, he mustered up resolution enough to lie down on the fatal plank. At the same time two other serfs, chosen by Ivan for assistants, took him by the arms and attached his wrists to two stakes, one at either side of him, so that it appeared as though he were stretched on a cross. Then they clamped his neck into an iron collar.

Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray

Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost.

War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy

Pierre Bezukhov is the illegitimate son of a wealthy count who is dying of a stroke, and becomes unexpectedly embroiled in a tussle for his inheritance. The intelligent and sardonic Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, husband of a charming wife Lise, finds little comfort in married life, instead choosing to be aide-de-camp of Prince Mikhail Kutuzov in their coming war against Napoleon.

War of the Worlds
By: H G Wells

By H.G. Wells -- published by Classic eBooks

Watching over Mia
By: Nithya Raghunath

This book is about a mother who loved her daughter so much - probably a lot more than other mothers usually do!!

Waverley
By: Walter Scott

This novel springs from Scott's childhood recollections and his desire to preserve in writing the features of life in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland.

Wells Brothers
By: Andy Adams

Two orphans face starvation on the prairie of northeastern Kansas during the terrible winter of 1885–86. Dell and Joel Wells, redheads who have barely reached shaving age, are about to abandon their dead father’s claim on Beaver Creek because it won’t grow crops. Then unexpected events, and a drover seeking aid, allow them a decent chance in life.

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When William Came
By: Saki

A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns.