Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
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The Mysterious Aviator
Nevil Shute was the nom-de-plume of the Anglo-Australian aeronautical engineer and writer, best known for works like “On the Beach” and “A T…
The Immortal
Acclaimed by readers worldwide, this first installment in The Immortal series presents unique and mystical teachings in a way that captures …
Swann's Way
"Swann's Way" is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time." …
The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in …
The Late Mattia Pascal
Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, a…
The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire
An engaging travelogue first published in 1886, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. Subtitle: Adventures o…
A Dweller on Two Planets
A channeled autobiography of a spirit calling himself Phylos the Thibetan. The setting is Atlantis with a first person account of Atlantean…
Benigna Machiavelli
In between "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) and Herland (1915), feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote and published thi…
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
You can call me Dr. Fathom. Or Count Fathom. But I'm not who I say I am. And can you blame me? My mother was a soldiers' harlot who pocketed…
Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…
Captain Fracasse
The story, set in the 17th Century during the reign of Louis XIII in France, concerns the progress of an impoverished nobleman as he venture…
Within a Budding Grove
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seve…
Jean-Christophe
The central character, Jean-Christophe Krafft, is a German musician of Belgian extraction, a composer of genius whose life is depicted from …
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Be…
The Newcomes
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner details the …
Orlando, A Biography
Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…
Childhood
Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian l…
Within a Budding Grove
"In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" (bowdlerized by Scottish translator Scott Moncrieff as "Within a Budding Grove"…
Boyhood
Boyhood offers a poignant glimpse into the formative years of one of literature's greatest minds, Leo Tolstoy. This autobiographical novel c…