Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
- Humorous Lives: Fictional Memoirs
- Fictional Lives Through History
- Dramatic Lives: Fictional Biographies
- Classics of Personal Journeys
David Copperfield
David Copperfield, like all of Dickens' novels, is filled with many memorable characters (because they are hyperbolic representations of cha…
Where the Blue Begins
In his collection Plum Pudding, Christopher Morley included two pieces about an unprepossessing mutt named “Haphazard Gissing I” with a gift…
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
This is the fictional diary of a young Japanese woman, first published in installments before being published in a single volume. The book d…
The Confession of a Child of the Century
In this autobiographic novel, an aging man reflects on his past. We are witness to the relationships he has along the way, his mistakes, and…
Fish Preferred
Fish Preferred is the third Wodehouse novel set at Blandings Castle, and the first to feature such memorable characters as the Honorable Gal…
Mary: A Fiction
Mary: A Fiction, published in 1788, is a tragic story that decries marriages not based on love. It can be considered an example of feminist …
Agnes Sorel
The Hundred Years' War: a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against…
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and pr…
The Romance of an Old Fool
A light-hearted account of a successful middle aged widower who chances to visit the small town in which he grew up to renew old acquaintanc…
The Type-Writer Girl
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
The Wing of Azrael
Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings the state of marriage as it existed in her time. Her …
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Join Bill Morison on his journey through corporate America, as he learns about auditing insurance and just how irritating people can be. Thi…
Mary of Burgundy
Fifteenth century Europe was a time of political upheaval and uncertainty. Mary of Burgundy of the House of Valois ruled over a collection o…
Pit-tah, de Grijze Wolf
'Pit-tah, de Grijze Wolf' (White Fang), de opvolger van 'Als de Natuur Roept' (The Call of the Wild), onderzoekt de gewelddadige wereld van …
With Her in Ourland
Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodic…
When the World Shook
A fictional memoir of Humphrey Arbuthnot of Devonshire, we are taken on a voyage to the island of Orofena, in the South Seas, together with…
Rulers of Kings
When a child is born, its temperament and character are unknown. The effects of nature versus nurture, of heredity and of circumstance are a…
The Giant's Robe
Mark Ashburn is a young teacher at St. Peter's Public School for boys, although he isn't particularly fond of boys. His dream is to make his…
Dreams
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the earli…
Write Now!
Piers Langland is a mild mannered paint salesman with one burning passion. He aspires to be a famous author. Each November he looks forwar…