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.
-
Put Yourself in His PlacePut Yourself in His Place I will frame a work of fiction upon notorious fact, so that anybody shall think he can do the same; shall labor and toil attempting the same, and failsuch is the power of sequence and connection in writing.HORACE: Art...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
Our VillageOur Village I. There is a great deal of admirable literature concerning Miss Mitford, so much of it indeed, that the writer of this little notice feels as if she almost owed an apology to those who remember, for having ventured to write, on...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
Moby Dick Or, The WhaleMoby Dick; Or, The Whale Call me Ishmael. Some years agonever mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
20,000 Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the WorldTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the WorldThe deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us, admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel. What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
Queer Little FolksQueer Little FolksOnce there was a nice young hen that we will call Mrs. Feathertop. She was a hen of most excellent family, being a direct descendant of the Bolton Grays, and as pretty a young fowl as you could wish to see of...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 18.99- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
Under Western EyesUnder Western Eyes To begin with I wish to disclaim the possession of those high gifts of imagination and expression which would have enabled my pen to create for the reader the personality of the man who called himself, after the Russian custom, Cyril...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
White LiesWhite Lies Towards the close of the last century the Baron de Beaurepaire lived in the chateau of that name in Brittany. His family was of prodigious antiquity; seven successive barons had already flourished on this spot when a younger son of the house...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
The Crusade of the ExcelsiorThe Crusade of the Excelsior THE CRUSADE OF THE EXCELSIOR PART I. IN BONDS. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. PART II. FREED. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
Mary-'GustaMary-'Gusta On the twentieth day of April in the year 19, the peoplethat is, a majority of the grown people of Ostablewere talking of Marcellus Hall and Mary-'Gusta. A part of this statement is not surprising. The average person, no matter how humble or...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
Samuel Brohl and CompanySamuel Brohl and Company Were the events of this nether sphere governed by the calculus of probabilities, Count Abel Larinski and Mlle. Antoinette Moriaz would almost unquestionably have arrived at the end of their respective careers without ever having met. Count Larinski lived in...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
The Prophet of Berkeley SquareThe Prophet of Berkeley Square The great telescope of the Prophet was carefully adjusted upon its lofty, brass-bound stand in the bow window of Number One Thousand Berkeley Square. It pointed towards the remarkably bright stars which twinkled in the December sky over frosty...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
Virgin SoilVirgin Soil TURGENEV was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, to interpret modern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
CarmenCarmen I had always suspected the geographical authorities did not know what they were talking about when they located the battlefield of Munda in the county of the Bastuli-Poeni, close to the modern Monda, some two leagues north of Marbella. According to my own...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
Doña PerfectaDoña Perfecta The very acute and lively Spanish critic who signs himself Clarn, and is known personally as Don Leopoldo Alas, says the present Spanish novel has no yesterday, but only a day-before-yesterday. It does not derive from the romantic novel which immediately preceded...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
The Madonna of the FutureThe Madonna of the FutureWe had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiecethe artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners)Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners) When I lived in the country,which was a long time ago,our nearest neighbours were the Luscombes. They were very great personages in the country indeed, and the family were greatly respected; though not, so far as...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
BeyondBeyond At the door of St. George's registry office, Charles Clare Winton strolled forward in the wake of the taxi-cab that was bearing his daughter away with the fiddler fellow she had married. His sense of decorum forbade his walking with Nurse Bettythe only...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
Caught in the NetCaught in the Net The cold on the 8th of February, 186-, was more intense than the Parisians had experienced during the whole of the severe winter which had preceded it, for at twelve oclock on that day Chevaliers thermometer, so well known by...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
The Silent BulletThe Silent Bullet It has always seemed strange to me that no one has ever endowed a professorship in criminal science in any of our large universities. Craig Kennedy laid down his evening paper and filled his pipe with my tobacco. In college we...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per
-
Shavings: A NovelShavings: A Novel Mr. Gabriel Bearse was happy. The prominence given to this statement is not meant to imply that Gabriel was, as a general rule, unhappy. Quite the contrary; Mr. Bearse's disposition was a cheerful one and the cares of this world had...
- CHF 5.93
CHF 11.87- CHF 5.93
- Unit price
- per