Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
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Brewster's Millions
Montgomery Brewster inherits a large sum of money. Then he learns he's to inherit 7 times as much! But there's a catch: he has to spend ever…
Mary Cary, Frequently Martha
"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orp…
The Three Clerks
The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a…
The Wheels of Chance
The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll follows the adventures of a draper's assistant who, having brought an ancient bicycle, sets off on …
The Immortal
Acclaimed by readers worldwide, this first installment in The Immortal series presents unique and mystical teachings in a way that captures …
Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication o…
The Courage of the Commonplace
The Courage of the Commonplace tells the poignant story of a young man grappling with his sense of self-worth and identity. On a day marked …
Swann's Way
"Swann's Way" is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time." …
The Story of Ahikar
The Story of Ahikar is a fictional work. It is a colorful story but considered to be a work containing great wisdom. The story of Ahikar …
A Dweller on Two Planets
A channeled autobiography of a spirit calling himself Phylos the Thibetan. The setting is Atlantis with a first person account of Atlantean…
People Like That
A single woman from a family that is well-off, buys a house at a place that is looked down upon and disapproved by her family and friends al…
The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in …
The Night Club
This work of fiction by Herbert Jenkins (1876-1923) features one of his best-loved comic characters, the affable Cockney, Joseph Bindle. It …
The Ways of St. Anthony
Saint Anthony of Padua is especially invoked and venerated all over the world as the patron saint for the recovery of lost items and is cred…
A Superfluous Woman
Published anonymously in 1894, “A Superfluous Woman” quickly became one of the most widely read of the “New Woman” novels that appeared at t…
Within a Budding Grove
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seve…
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Be…
Katharine von Bora
This is a fictionalized biography of the wife of the reformer Dr. Martin Luther. In the author's words, he hopes that "people may learn…
Eliza
A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…
The Idiot at home
The Idiot returns along with Ms Idiot and their two children, Mollie and Tommy, move into their first house in suburbia. What follows are en…