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.
-
The White CatThe White Cat - Captains All, Book 10. The traveller stood looking from the tap-room window of the Cauliflower at the falling rain. The village street below was empty, and everything was quiet with the exception of the garrulous old man smoking with much...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Captains All and OthersCaptains All and Others Every sailorman grumbles about the sea, said the night-watchman, thoughtfully. It's human nature to grumble, and I s'pose they keep on grumbling and sticking to it because there ain't much else they can do. There's not many shore-going berths that...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The Temptation of Samuel BurgeThe Temptation of Samuel Burge - Captains All, Book 8. Mr. Higgs, jeweller, sat in the small parlour behind his shop, gazing hungrily at a supper-table which had been laid some time before. It was a quarter to ten by the small town clock...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Four PigeonsFour Pigeons - Captains All, Book 7. The old man took up his mug and shifted along the bench until he was in the shade of the elms that stood before the Cauliflower. The action also had the advantage of bringing him opposite the...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The Madness of Mr. ListerThe Madness of Mr. Lister - Captains All, Book 9. Old Jem Lister, of the Susannah, was possessed of two devilsthe love of strong drink and avariceand the only thing the twain had in common was to get a drink without paying for it....
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Over the SideOver the Side - Captains All, Book 6. Of all classes of men, those who follow the sea are probably the most prone to superstition. Afloat upon the black waste of waters, at the mercy of wind and sea, with vast depths and strange...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Bob's RedemptionBob's Redemption - Captains All, Book 5. "GRATITOODE!" said the night-watchman, with a hard laugh. "Hmf! Don't talk to me about gratitoode; I've seen too much of it. If people wot I've helped in my time 'ad only done arf their dootyarf, mind youI...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The Constable's MoveThe Constable's Move - Captains All, Book 4. Mr. Bob Grummit sat in the kitchen with his corduroy-clad legs stretched on the fender. His wife's half-eaten dinner was getting cold on the table; Mr. Grummit, who was badly in need of cheering up, emptied...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Captains AllCaptains All - Captains All, Part 1. Every sailorman grumbles about the sea, said the night-watchman, thoughtfully. It's human nature to grumble, and I s'pose they keep on grumbling and sticking to it because there ain't much else they can do. There's not many...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The Nest EggThe Nest Egg - Captains All, Book 3. "Artfulness," said the night-watch-man, smoking placidly, "is a gift; but it don't pay always. I've met some artful ones in my timeplenty of 'em; but I can't truthfully say as 'ow any of them was the...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The Boatswain's MateThe Boatswain's Mate - Captains All, Book 2. Mr. George Benn, retired boat-swain, sighed noisily, and with a despondent gesture, turned to the door and stood with the handle in his hand; Mrs. Waters, sitting behind the tiny bar in a tall Windsor-chair, eyed...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — FictionAcknowledgment and thanks for permission to use the following selections are herewith tendered to G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, for "The Death of the Gods," by Dmitri Merejkowski; and to Doubleday, Page & Company, New York,...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 18.83- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' EditionUncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' EditionERY many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves. These slaves were paid no wages. Their masters gave them only food and clothes in return for their...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Wild Wings: A Romance of YouthWild Wings: A Romance of Youth 1921 Among the voluble, excited, commencement-bound crowd that boarded the Northampton train at Springfield two male passengers were conspicuous for their silence as they sat absorbed in their respective newspapers which each had hurriedly purchased in transit from...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Potterism: A Tragi-Farcical TractPotterism: A Tragi-Farcical Tract 1920 'Truth may perhaps come to the price of a Pearle, that sheweth best by day; But it will not rise to the price of a Diamond or Carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a Lie...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department StoreFor Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store Scores of pale-faced women and narrow-chested men stood behind the counters, while "cash girls," with waxen cheeks and scrawny figures, darted here and there on their ceaseless errands. On the fifth floor of...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Mary WollastonMary Wollaston 1920 Miss Lucile Wollaston was set to exude sympathy, like an aphid waiting for an overworked ant to come down to breakfast. But there was no sympathizing with the man who came in from a doctor's all-night vigil like a boy from...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
No HeroNo Hero Has no writer ever dealt with the dramatic aspect of the unopened envelope? I cannot recall such a passage in any of my authors, and yet to my mind there is much matter for philosophy in what is always the expressionless shell...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
The Lost TrailThe Lost TrailThe bank, some fifteen or twenty feet in height, descended quite abruptly to the stream's edge. Though both shores were lined with dense forest, this particular portion possessed only several sparse clumps of shrubbery, which seemed like a breathing-space in this sea...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Mary MarieMary MarieFather calls me Mary. Mother calls me Marie. Everybody else calls me Mary Marie. The rest of my name is Anderson. I'm thirteen years old, and I'm a cross-current and a contradiction. That is, Sarah says I'm that. (Sarah is my old nurse.)...
- CHF 5.88
CHF 11.77- CHF 5.88
- Unit price
- per