Fiction Classics Books

Rumoured to have been responsible for her husband's downfall, Madame Fontaine becomes known as Jezebel, and her sweet-tempered daughter is known as Jezebel's daughter.

A man capitalizes on his remarkable resemblance to another man to steal the other's life and identity.

In this novel two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highly meritorious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and repute, though, it must be acknowledged, not quite so highly...

A ten year old boy narrates the story of love and intrigue in a European court.

When the fun-loving and imaginative Sara of Montgomery spends the winter with the king's family in the old-fashioned town of Carlisle, she comes up with a great idea to entertain the children. And when Sara returns home, she has introduced still more people to the magic in her heart. 

The Half-Hearted tells the story of Lewis Haystoun, a dilettante and coward. At a Scottish country house party hosted by Lady Manorwater, Lewis falls for Alice Wishart, one of the guests. Lewis answers the call to adventure finally and sets off to Kashmir in search of 'success, enterprise, new...

An egocentric man leaves his wife in order to marry a more popular and wealthier woman through the use of a loophole in Irish marriage laws.

A country girl is sent to live with her wealthier and more cultured relatives in Boston where she learns many life lessons.

After a failed attempt to reach the North Pole, explorer Ward Bennett falls in love with a beautiful nurse, and he must choose between love and his desire to explore.

A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.