FICTION
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
"Camelot--Camelot," said I to myself. "I don't seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely."
It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of flowers, and the buzzing of insects,
and the twittering of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there was no stir of life, nothing going on. The road was mainly a winding path with hoof-prints
in it, and now and then a faint trace of wheels on either side in the grass--wheels that apparently had a tire as broad as one's hand.
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A foot in the door
By: Richard J
The book is about a small town lawyer who runs for the Washington State Senate as a libertarian candidate.
He is elected into a body evenly divided by Republicans and Democrats. He becomes the tie-breaking vote on every major piece of legislation.
This book is about one man who gets his very independent foot in the door of a very intense political arena.
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A Happy Boy
By: Bjornstjerne Bjornson
In it the author has succeeded in drawing the characters with remarkable distinctness, while his profound psychological insight,
his perfectly artless simplicity of style, and his thorough sympathy with the hero and his surroundings are nowhere more apparent.
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A Laodicean: A Story of To-Day
By: Thomas Hardy
A Laodicean features a heroine torn between the dilapidated aristocratic romance of the past and the energetic technocracy of the modern world.
The World's Classics edition of A Laodicean is unique in its use of the original text of 1881.
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A Lesson Learned
By: Langdon Hues
"A story of two friends who incite their dreams, building a cabin upon a mountain overlooking the Patucca River and Honduran jungle.
They end up joining a cause worth fighting, but later become ensnarled in disillusionment and now have a bigger problem they must face alone.
But then again, what plan ever goes accordingly?
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A Little Princess
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess is a 1904 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialized novel
entitled Sara Crewe: or, What happened at Miss Minchin's boarding school, which was published in St. Nicholas Magazine.
According to Burnett, she discovered that she had missed out a great deal of things when writing the novella. She had been composing a play based
on the story when she found out a lot of characters she had missed. The publisher asked her to publish a new, revised story of the novella, producing the novel.
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A Man's Woman
By: Frank Norris
This Elibron Classics book is a reprint of a 1902 edition by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York.
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A Marine’s Lapse in Synapse
by Joey D. Ossian
A collection of unbelievable but true short stories.
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A Sportsman's Sketches
Volume II
By: Ivan Turgenev
Translated from Russian by Constance Garnett
Tatyana Borissovna is a woman of fifty, with large, prominent grey eyes, a rather broad nose, rosy cheeks and a double chin. Her face is brimming
over with friendliness and kindness. She was once married, but was soon left a widow. Tatyana Borissovna is a very remarkable woman. She lives
on her little property, never leaving it, mixes very little with her neighbours, sees and likes none but young people. She was the daughter
of very poor landowners, and received no education; in other words, she does not know French; she has never been in Moscow--and in spite of all
these defects, she is so good and simple in her manners, so broad in her sympathies and ideas, so little infected with the ordinary prejudices of
country ladies of small means, that one positively cannot help marvelling at her....
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A Tale of Two Cities
By: Charles Dickens
First published in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens's most famous and popular novels. This stirring tale, set in the late eighteenth century
against the backdrop of the French Revolution, is a novel for all generations. Filled with adventure and love, revolution and terror, it transports the reader
to a time of political upheaval and solutions by guillotine.
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A Texas Matchmaker
By: Andy Adams
When I first found employment with Lance Lovelace, a Texas cowman, I had not yet attained my majority, while he was over sixty. Though not a native of Texas,
"Uncle Lance" was entitled to be classed among its pioneers, his parents having emigrated from Tennessee along with a party of Stephen F. Austin's colonists
in 1821. The colony with which his people reached the state landed at Quintana, at the mouth of the Brazos River, and shared the various hardships that befell
all the early Texan settlers, moving inland later to a more healthy locality. Thus the education of young Lovelace was one of privation. Like other boys in
pioneer families, he became in turn a hewer of wood or drawer of water, as the necessities of the household required, in reclaiming the wilderness.
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A Young Girl's Diary
By: An Anonymous Young Girl
A diary (translated from German) written by a 13 year old girl belonging to the Austrian upper middle class. Sigmund Freud, the distinguished Viennese psychologist, testifies
to the permanent value of the document.
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Abbeychurch
By: Charlotte Mary Yonge
One summer afternoon, Helen Woodbourne returned from her daily walk with her sisters, and immediately repaired to the school-room, in order to put
the finishing touches to a drawing, with which she had been engaged during the greater part of the morning. She had not been long established there,
before her sister Katherine came in, and, taking her favourite station, leaning against the window shutter so as to command a good view of the street,
she began, 'Helen, do you know that the Consecration is to be on Thursday the twenty-eighth, instead of the Tuesday after?'
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Absalom's Hair
By: Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Harald Kaas was sixty.
He had given up his free, uncriticised bachelor life; his yacht was no longer seen off the coast in summer; his tours to England and the south had ceased;
nay, he was rarely to be found even at his club in Christiania. His gigantic figure was never seen in the doorways; he was failing.
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Agnes Grey
By: Anne Bronte
Agnes, an inexperienced and poor young woman, is governess to Matilda. Possessed of an unshakeable sense of entitlement and a boundless sense of self worth,
Agnes's charge can break hearts at will. Is there any luck left over for Agnes herself? Included at the end of this volume is a fine selection of Anne Bront's
poems.
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Ali Pacha
By: Alexandre Dumas, Pere
A career of successful crime had established Ali's rule over a population equal to that of the two kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, But his ambition was not yet
satisfied. The occupation of Parga did not crown his desires, and the delight which it caused him was much tempered by the escape of the Parganiotes,
who found in exile a safe refuge from his persecution.
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ALICE HICKEY: Between Worlds
by Justin Spring
ALICE HICKEY: Between Worlds is the story of one man’s incredible journey into the psychic roots of human creativity. It is the exhilarating, funny,
sometimes desperate record of the author’s friendship with psychic Alice Hickey and their journey into the depths of the unconscious, a journey that
ultimately reveals who we truly are: mysterious beings residing at the very center of Creation.
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Almayer's Folly
By: Joseph Conrad
"Almayer's Folly" adequately introduces the theme of culture conflict, an angle that is expressed more fully in Conrad's later works.
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Amelia
By: Henry Fielding
Amelia
By: Henry Fielding
In his final novel, Fielding turned from an unheroic hero to an unusually positive heroine, but the tone of this novel, "Amelia "(1751), remains equivocal.
The plot revolves around the domestic problems created by an improvident husband, William Booth, a well-intentioned but naive young man.
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Amy Foster
By: Joseph Conrad
In "Amy Foster", Joseph Conrad has written a great story that shows the different types of love felt between Amy and Yanko.
Kennedy is a country doctor, and lives in Colebrook, on the shores of Eastbay. The high ground rising abruptly behind the red roofs of the little town crowds the quaint High Street against the wall
which defends it from the sea. Beyond the sea-wall there curves for miles in a vast and regular sweep the barren beach of shingle, with the village of Brenzett standing out darkly across the water,
a spire in a clump of trees; and still further out the perpendicular column of a lighthouse, looking in the distance no bigger than a lead pencil, marks the vanishing-point of the land.
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