Fiction
Explore the best fiction books of all time, including top science fiction, fantasy, historical, and romantic novels. Find famous novels and best-selling titles at our online bookstore, offering the best books to read.
-
Sam's GhostSam's Ghost - Deep Waters, Part 4. Yes, I know, said the night-watchman, thoughtfully, as he sat with a cold pipe in his mouth gazing across the river. I've 'eard it afore. People tell me they don't believe in ghosts and make a laugh...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
HusbandryHusbandry - Deep Waters, Part 6. Dealing with a man, said the night-watchman, thoughtfully, is as easy as a teetotaller walking along a nice wide pavement; dealing with a woman is like the same teetotaller, arter four or five whiskies, trying to get up...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
ShareholdersShareholders - Deep Waters, Part 1. Sailor mansaid the night-watchman, musinglya sailorman is like a fish he is safest when 'e is at sea. When a fish comes ashore it is in for trouble, and so is sailorman. One poor chap I knew 'ardly...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Paying OffPaying Off - Deep Waters, Part 2. My biggest fault, said the night-watchman, gloomily, has been good nature. I've spent the best part of my life trying to do my fellow- creeturs a good turn. And what do I get for it? If all...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Stories by American Authors, Volume 6Stories by American Authors, Volume 6"Wall," said the first speaker, "I only hope he won't go to burnin' us out of house and home, same as he burnt up Eliphalet's barn. I was ruther in hopes he'd 'a' made off West. Seems to me...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Fort comme la mortFort comme la mortLe jour tombait dans le vaste atelier par la baie ouverte du plafond. C'tait un grand carr de lumire clatante et bleue, un trou clair sur un infini lointain d'azur, o passaient, rapides, des vols d'oiseaux. Mais peine entre dans la...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson CrusoeThe Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson CrusoeAbout the commencement of the last century, the little town of St. Andrew, the capital of the county of Fife, in Scotland, celebrated then for its University, was not less so for its Inn, the...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Stories by American Authors, Volume 1Stories by American Authors, Volume 1Come, now, there may as well be an end of this! Every time I meet your eyes squarely I detect the question just slipping out of them. If you had spoken it, or even boldly looked it; if you...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Stories by American Authors, Volume 5Stories by American Authors, Volume 5April 4, 1857.I have changed my sky without changing my mind. I resume these old notes in a new world. I hardly know of what use they are; but it's easier to stick to the habit than to drop...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Pauvre BlaisePauvre BlaiseCher enfant, voici un excellent garon, sage et pieux comme toi, qui te demande une place dans ta bibliothque. Tu ne repousseras pas sa prire et tu lui donneras un poste de faveur en l'honneur de ses vertus et de ta grand'mre. Blaise...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookAaron (St.), a British martyr of the City of Legions (Newport, in South Wales). He was torn limb from limb by order of Maximian'us Hercu'lius, general...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 18.81- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The Call of the NorthThe Call of the North Beyond the butternut, beyond the maple, beyond the white pine and the red, beyond the oak, the cedar, and the beech, beyond even the white and yellow birches lies a Land, and in that Land the shadows fall crimson...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The GraftersThe GraftersIn point of age, Gaston the strenuous was still no more than a lusty infant among the cities of the brown plain when the boom broke and the junto was born, though its beginnings as a halt camp ran back to the days...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The RefugeesThe Refugees - A Tale of Two Continents It was the sort of window which was common in Paris about the end of the seventeenth century. It was high, mullioned, with a broad transom across the centre, and above the middle of the transom...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The Red Rover: A TaleThe Red Rover: A Tale The Writer felt it necessary, on a former occasion, to state, that, in sketching his marine life, he did not deem himself obliged to adhere, very closely, to the chronological order of nautical improvements. It is believed that no...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The Sky Line of SpruceThe Sky Line of SpruceThe convict gang had a pleasant place to work to-day. Their road building had taken them some miles from the scattered outskirts of Walla Walla, among fields green with growing barley. The air was fresh and sweet; the Western meadow...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Fædra: Brudstykker af et Livs HistorieFædra: Brudstykker af et Livs HistorieNu var Thorsholm alt, hvad Maag'erne havde tilbage. Fr havde skiftevis en Jens og en Jrgen Maagde to var Slgtens Yndlingsnavnefra Thorsholm af eiet og styret over Landet fire Mil i Omkreds lige til Fjorden, og tten havde hrt...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Cheerful—By RequestCheerful—By Request The editor paid for the lunch (as editors do). He lighted his seventh cigarette and leaned back. The conversation, which had zigzagged from the war to Zuloaga, and from Rasputin the Monk to the number of miles a Darrow would go on...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
20.000 Mijlen onder Zee: Westelijk Halfrond20.000 Mijlen onder Zee: Westelijk HalfrondXXV. De Indische Oceaan. XXVI. Een nieuw voorstel van Kapitein Nemo. XXVII. Een parel van vijf millioen. XXVIII. De Roode Zee. XXIX. De Arabische Tunnel. XXX. De Grieksche Archipel. XXXI. Door de Middellandsche Zee in twee dagen. XXXII. De...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Round Anvil Rock: A RomanceRound Anvil Rock: A RomanceIn weaving a romance round a real rock and through actual events, this tale has taken no great liberty with fact. It has, indeed, claimed the freedom of fiction only in drawing certain localities and incidents somewhat closer together than...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.76- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per