Fiction Classics Books

These six stories, all based in truth, include: "Gaspar Ruiz," "The Informer," "The Brute," "An Anarchist," "The Duel," and "Il Conde."

Being a continuation in what is known as The D'Artagnan Romances, this is the third part of The Vicomte de Bragelonne.

Jane Withersteen understands the oppression of the polygamous Mormon fundamentalist church when she learns she is to be married to an elder.

Like every other woman, she had had an affair of the heart. Her father, who was a mason, was killed by falling from a scaffolding. Then her mother died and her sisters went their different ways; a farmer took her in, and while she was quite small, let her keep cows in the fields. She was clad in...

The eighth book in the Anne of Green Gables series, Anne's daughter, Rilla, endures obstacles of adolescence during the horrifying days of World War I.

And then a day came in which an attempt was made by a large body of convicts, under his leadership, to get the better of the officers of the prison. It is hardly necessary to say that the attempt failed. Such attempts always fail. It failed on this occasion signally, and Trow, with two other men...

The story begins with strange lights and sounds reported in the skies over Europe. The events are capped by the mysterious appearance of a black flag atop the Eiffel Tower. These events are all the work of the mysterious Robur, a brilliant inventor who intrudes on a meeting of a...

Scott's magnificent novel recreates the drama and the strange mixture of assurance and profound unease of the age of Elizabeth through the story of Amy Robsart.

This sequel to Eight Cousins follows Rose as she returns to Aunt Hill after traveling and tries to establish herself as an independent young woman.  The story begins when Rose comes back from a long trip to Europe. Everyone is well altered and as a joke, when she arrives home, she lines up her...

Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame.