Books tagged with Fiction[941 found]
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The Sky Trap
by Frank Belknap Long
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
Pilots keep vanishing along a high-altitude corridor, and a brash test flyer returns with a story no one believes: the sky itself is a snare, a thin, glittering membrane folding space like a net. As cities suffer impossible echoes and clocks rebel, a small team gambles on a desperate ascent to cut the trap from within—before the world is wrapped, bottled, and taken.
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In Search of the Castaways Or The Children of Captain Grant
by Jules Verne
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
A daring quest spans oceans and continents as a group of determined explorers searches for a missing captain. Facing storms, wild lands, and unexpected challenges, their journey blends adventure, courage, and ingenuity in a thrilling race to uncover the truth.
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
by Jules Verne
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
Embark on a thrilling journey across uncharted Africa in a pioneering balloon adventure. Facing wild landscapes, perilous encounters, and scientific discovery, the explorers rely on courage, ingenuity, and determination to navigate unknown territories and unravel the continent’s mysteries.
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The Party and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A collection of finely crafted tales capturing the nuances of human behavior, social life, and personal longing. Through subtle observation and empathy, each story reveals the humor, tragedy, and complexity of everyday existence.
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The Bishop and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
On the eve of Easter, a fading churchman confronts illness, memory, and the thin line between reverence and regret. Around him unfold spare, luminous portraits—clerks trapped by routine, lovers at crossroads, peasants wrestling with duty—each story turning on a small, piercing moment when life tilts and truth slips through: quiet, humane, and unforgettable.
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Off on a Comet! A Journey through Planetary Space
by Jules Verne
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
When a cosmic catastrophe hurls a group of people onto a comet speeding through space, they must adapt to strange skies and alien landscapes. Blending science, wonder, and adventure, the story explores survival, discovery, and humanity’s fragile place amid the vast mysteries of the universe.
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The Darling and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
Olenka, nicknamed “the Darling,” lives by echoing the men she loves—actor, manager, vet—taking their opinions as her own until loss leaves her startlingly voiceless. Around this piercing portrait gather brief tales of clerks, peasants, and doctors where humor flickers through fatigue, pride meets kindness, and ordinary lives reveal the fragile bargains we make to be loved.
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The Witch and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A coachman’s wife accused of sorcery, jealous husbands, weary priests, petty officials and ruined dreamers move through bleak fields and snowbound villages. In brief, piercing tales of temptation, spite, tenderness and regret, ordinary people stumble into moments of revelation that wound—and sometimes awaken—their souls beneath an indifferent winter sky.
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The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
Across provincial Russia, petty thieves, timid clerks, and weary doctors collide in moments where character is tested: a horse stolen at dawn, a shabby wedding gone wrong, charity that humiliates, love misread, pride exposed. With quiet humor and sudden cruelty, these brief tales reveal how ordinary lives veer toward folly, kindness, or regret on a single careless choice.
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The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
From kitchens and courtyards to hospitals and backwater stations, these brief tales catch ordinary Russians at their most comic, stubborn, and achingly human. A bullied cook faces marriage, petty clerks dream too loudly, doctors misread hearts. With swift, surgical turns, cruelty and kindness trade places, and quiet moments flare into truths you feel long after the last page.
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The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
Stranded on an uncharted island, castaways use science, courage, and ingenuity to survive and uncover its hidden wonders. As they tame the wild and face unknown dangers, a deeper mystery beneath the island’s surface begins to unfold.
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The Wife and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
An uneasy husband, trapped in a stale marriage and sudden crisis, must decide whether to cling to comfort or answer a moral call beyond his home. Around him unfold other quiet dramas of doctors, dreamers and widows, where small choices, missed words and fleeting mercies reshape ordinary Russian lives, asking whether tenderness can survive pride, fatigue and time.
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From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon
by Jules Verne
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
A bold vision of space exploration follows a group of daring adventurers as they build a cannon to launch humans to the Moon. Blending science, ingenuity, and humor, their journey tests courage and imagination in a thrilling tale of discovery beyond Earth’s bounds.
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The Datchet Diamonds
by Richard Marsh
Categories: Fiction » Mystery
On a foggy night, a mild-mannered clerk stumbles onto a valise stuffed with diamonds—and into a conspiracy that frames him as thief and murderer. Hounded by detectives and cutthroats, he must outwit blackmailers, survive train-side escapes, and win help from a quick-witted young woman before the true mastermind vanishes with both fortune and lives.
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The Skull
by Philip K. Dick
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
A condemned man is offered freedom if he’ll travel back in time and assassinate a mysterious preacher whose words will reshape the world. Armed with a tracking device and a small, grim relic—the target’s skull—he hunts through a rough frontier city. Each clue drags him toward a paradox only he can complete, where fate, faith, and identity lock into a single bullet.
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The Variable Man
by Philip K. Dick
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
In a future war where prediction machines decide every move, a simple repairman from the past is accidentally dragged forward in time. Lacking a statistical profile, he becomes an unpredictable anomaly who can wreck carefully calculated war plans, forcing generals, rebels, and corporations to gamble on chaos, hope, and terror.
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Piper in the Woods
by Philip K. Dick
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
On a remote asteroid, soldiers return from patrol convinced they are plants—rooted, carefree, beyond duty. A base psychiatrist probing the bizarre epidemic follows rumors of elusive “Pipers” into alien valleys, uncovering a soothing philosophy that threatens military order. As therapy blurs into temptation, he must decide whether sanity means waking—or learning to grow.
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Under One Flag
by Richard Marsh
Categories: Fiction » Historical
Two young men, bound by schoolboy rivalry and uneasy admiration, are swept from London drawing rooms into the brutal shocks of imperial war. Facing spies, massacres, and a treacherous comrade, they must decide whether honor lies in blind patriotism, personal vengeance, or a fragile new respect for each other amid the chaos of battle.
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The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Romance
A bored banker on holiday meets a guarded young wife by the sea an affair that begins as a trifle remakes two lives. Around them, clerks, actresses, doctors and dreamers face choices they can neither name nor escape. With quiet shocks and merciless clarity, these stories reveal how love, shame, vanity and sudden tenderness steer ordinary people toward truth—or self-deception.
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
by Jules Verne
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
A daring professor, his nephew, and a stoic guide venture into an Icelandic volcano, uncovering a hidden world beneath the Earth’s surface. Their perilous descent reveals ancient creatures, vast caverns, and untold wonders. This thrilling adventure blends science and imagination, capturing the awe of exploration and the mysteries of the unknown
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