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.
-
Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the MorosUncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines; or, Following the Flag against the MorosAuthor of Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks, Uncle Sam's Boys on Field Duty, Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants, The Motor Boat Club Series, The Grammar School Boys Series, The High School...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Heart of GoldHeart of GoldTired Miss Phelps laid down her crayon, with one sweep of her arm erased the letter exercises she had so laboriously traced on the blackboard for her fifty pupils to copy, wiped the clinging chalk from her dry, chapped hands, and sank...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
UnspecialistUnspecialist A machine can be built to do any accurately described job better than any man. The superiority of a man is that he can do an unexpected, undescribed, and emergency job ... provided he hasn't been especially trained to be a machine. Banner...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Edward BarryEdward Barry - South Sea Pearler A wild, blustering day in Sydney, the Queen City of the Southern Seas. Since early morn a keen, cutting, sleet-laden westerly gale had been blowing, rattling and shaking the windows of the houses in the higher and more...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Lady Betty Across the WaterLady Betty Across the Water To the people of that great, delightful, and hospitable land which gave Lady Betty the time of her life and inspiration, this story of her visit is admiringly Dedicated by Betty Bulkeley and C. N. and A. M. Williamson...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Die Kurtisane JamaicaDie Kurtisane Jamaica Sie wurde Jamaica genannt, des holden, sdlichen Ovales wegen, das ihr Gesicht zeigte, und wegen der brunlich hingehauchten Farbe ihres Teints, der an eine eben angerauchte Meerschaumpfeife gemahnte. Jamaica hatte seelenvolle Hnde, ihr Mund war wie ein Schwertstich, ihre groen Augen...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Le roman d'un enfantLe roman d'un enfantIl se fait presque tard dans ma vie, pour que j'entreprenne ce livre: autour de moi, dj tombe une sorte de nuit; o trouverai-je prsent des mots assez frais, des mots assez jeunes? C'est avec une sorte de crainte que je...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The CollaboratorsThe Collaborators - 1896 Why shouldnt we collaborate? said Henley in his most matter-of-fact way, as Big Ben gave voice to the midnight hour. Everybody does it nowadays. Two heads may be really better than one, although I seldom believe in the truth of...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
"Fin Tireur""Fin Tireur" - 1905 Two years ago I was travelling by diligence in the Sahara Desert on the great caravan route, which starts from Beni-Mora and ends, they say, at Tombouctou. For fourteen hours each day we were on the road, and each evening...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Desert AirDesert Air - 1905 On an evening of last summer I was dining in London at the Carlton with two men. One of them was an excellent type of young England, strong, healthy, athletic, and straightforward. The other was a clever London doctor who...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Folly Of EustaceThe Folly Of Eustace - 1896 Some men deliberately don a character in early youth as others don a mask before going to an opera ball. They select it not without some care, being guided in their choice by the opinion they have formed...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Desert DrumThe Desert Drum - 1905 I am not naturally superstitious. The Saharaman is. He has many strange beliefs. When one is at close quarters with him, sees him day by day in his home, the great desert, listens to his dramatic tales of desert...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Mission Of Mr. Eustace GreyneThe Mission Of Mr. Eustace Greyne - 1905 Mrs. Eustace Greyne (pronounced Green) wrinkled her foreheadthat noble, that startling forehead which had been written about in the newspapers of two hemisphereslaid down her American Squeezer pen, and sighed. It was an autumn day, nipping...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Figure In The MirageThe Figure In The Mirage - 1905 On a windy night of Spring I sat by a great fire that had been built by Moors on a plain of Morocco under the shadow of a white city, and talked with a fellow-countryman, stranger to...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Halima And The ScorpionsHalima And The Scorpions - 1905 In travelling about the world one collects a number of those trifles of all sorts, usually named curiosities, many of them worthless if it were not for the memories they recall. The other day I was clearing out...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Princess And The Jewel DoctorThe Princess And The Jewel Doctor - 1905 In St. Petersburg society there may be met at the present time a certain Russian Princess, who is noted for her beauty, for an ugly defectshe has lost the forefinger of her left handand for her...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The SpinsterThe Spinster - 1905 I had arrived at Inley Abbey that afternoon, and was sitting at dinner with Inley and his pretty wife, whom I had not seen for five years, since the day I was his best man, when we all heard faintly...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Smaïn; and Safti's Summer DaySmaïn; and Safti's Summer Day - 1905 Far away in the desert I heard the sound of a flute, pure sound in the pure air, delicate, sometimes almost comic with the comicality of a child who bends women to kisses and to nonsense-words. We...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Far from HomeFar from HomeThe harassed Controller had lived in an aura of Restricteds, Classifieds and Top Secrets for so long it had become a mental conditioning and automatically hedged over information that had been public property for years via the popular technical mags; but in...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Sally of MissouriSally of MissouriIt was half a sob, half a laugh, and, half sobbing, half laughing, the young man stopped his horse on the crest of the Tigmore Hills, in the Ozark Uplift, raised in his stirrups, and looked the country through and through, as...
- €6,30 EUR
- €6,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per