Fiction Classics Books

Set in ancient Rome, Antonia has the misfortune to live during the days when mighty Rome was brought low by the Goths.

Allen Armadale murders the father of his cousin who is also named Allen Armadale, and he eventually confesses to the crime.

A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone.

Marguerite de Chalusse is upset when an unsolved mystery keeps her from marrying Paul Ferailleur.

An upstanding young man falls in love with a beautiful daughter of a tradesman, but cannot marry her due to her sexual promiscuity.

The Three Musketeers come together again to battle injustices as civil war threatens the throne of France.

The Hotel de Perou was one of those refuges, growing scarcer and more scarce every day, where unhappy men and women, who had been worsted in the battle of life, could find a shelter in return for the change remaining from the last five-franc piece.

Rafael Sabatini wrote his stories of The Historical Night's Entertainment to thrill and delight his readers with accounts of bizarre and extraordinary episodes. Based on real events, Sabatini has brought to them his own masterly embellishments, adding all the liveliness and excitement of fiction...

The book begins: At the very beginning of the tale there comes a moment of puzzled hesitation. One way of approach is set beside another for choice, and a third contrived for better choice. Still the puzzle persists, all because the one precisely right way might seem-shall we say intense, high...

Nicholas strives to support his mother and sister after the death of Mr. Nickleby leaves them impoverished.