Books tagged with Fiction[941 found]
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Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
An observant, self-contained woman flees a shadowed past to teach at a girls’ school in a foreign city. Amid strict classrooms, midnight visions, and shifting alliances, she wrestles with loneliness, faith, and forbidden love, slowly discovering her own fierce capacity for desire, resilience, and hope, even when happiness seems forever out of reach.
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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
In a misty English estate, a young governess tends two orphaned children haunted by ghostly apparitions of past servants. Visions blur innocence and corruption, sanity and dread, in this psychological tale probing perception's ambiguities, repressed desires, and lingering moral terror.
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Love and Freindship
by Jane Austen
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
A playful and satirical look at youthful romance and social ambition, following characters whose passions, schemes, and misunderstandings lead to humorous and unexpected outcomes. Wit and irony reveal the folly of love and friendship in a world driven by manners and appearances.
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Pierre or The Ambiguities
by Herman Melville
An idealistic young heir’s world shatters when a mysterious woman claims to be his father’s secret child. To protect her, he defies family and fortune, plunging into a feverish New York of artists, schemers, and scandal. Love, duty, and desire blur until noble impulses curdle into ruin, exposing how self-invention and hidden sin can destroy every bond.
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
Categories: Fiction » Politics
In an industrial town dominated by facts and rigid logic, lives intertwine with struggle, ambition, and heartache. This powerful story exposes the human cost of utilitarian thinking, showing how compassion, imagination, and resilience are essential to survive and thrive.
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Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A dark and gripping tale of ambition and consequence, it follows a scientist who defies nature to create life. Confronted by the horrors of his own creation, he faces moral dilemmas, isolation, and the terrifying power of human ingenuity gone awry.
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The Professor
by Charlotte Brontë
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
An orphaned clerk with quiet pride leaves England for a Brussels school, where he teaches unruly boys by day and wrestles loneliness by night. A cool beauty toys with his hopes a penniless teacher with fierce integrity challenges his heart. Amid exams, jealousies, and Calvinist shadows, he must choose ambition or love—and find a self that can stand alone.
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The Lady of the Shroud
by Bram Stoker
An English heir, newly master of a Balkan stronghold, is visited at midnight by a silent woman in a burial shroud. Is she ghost, vampire, or victim? Drawn into border wars and secret councils, he arms mountaineers, challenges a ruthless pretender, and wagers his life on the mysterious bride whose secret could save a kingdom—or damn his soul.
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Flappers and Philosophers
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A sparkling collection of stories capturing the excitement, glamour, and moral complexities of the Jazz Age. Through love, ambition, and social ambition, characters navigate modern life with wit, desire, and the often bittersweet pursuit of happiness.
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The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Categories: Fiction » Romance
At a New England utopian farm, a poet seeking renewal is drawn into the orbit of a steel-willed reformer, a dazzling heiress, and a fragile girl rumored to be the mesmerist’s Veiled Lady. Idealism collides with jealousy and control, secrets curdle into scandal, and a winter night brings ruin, forcing him to ask what truth—if any—survives our noblest dreams.
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The Castle of Otranto
by Horace Walpole
On the day his son is crushed by a colossal helmet, a tyrant lord seizes on a prophecy and schemes to divorce his wife and wed his son’s betrothed. In shadowed corridors and hidden chapels, specters stalk and armor walks, while a fugitive youth and a princess flee through trapdoors. Ancient crimes press on the living as the castle itself seems to choose the rightful heir.
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Lady Susan
by Jane Austen
Categories: Fiction » Romance
A sparkling tale of wit, manipulation, and social intrigue, it follows a clever and charming woman who navigates love, ambition, and society’s expectations. Through letters and schemes, her cunning exposes human folly while entertaining with humor and insight.
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The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A glamorous couple navigates love, ambition, and indulgence in the roaring Jazz Age, only to face the harsh consequences of vanity and excess. A poignant exploration of desire, decay, and the fleeting nature of beauty and success.
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
A young lawyer ventures to a Transylvanian castle, encountering a sinister count with unearthly powers. As the vampire’s shadow spreads to Victorian England, a band of unlikely heroes—armed with faith, love, and garlic—hunts the immortal predator. This chilling gothic tale weaves suspense, romance, and horror, probing the battle between good and evil in a world stalked by darkness.
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Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
A shipwrecked traveler journeys to fantastical lands, encountering tiny people, giants, and strange societies. Through adventure, satire, and sharp social commentary, he confronts human folly, pride, and the complexities of culture in a journey both entertaining and thought-provoking.
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Vengeance Is Its Own Reward
by Millie Dynamite
Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Meet Elizabeth Dyer, often called Shortcake. She’s the real deal in vigilante justice. For her, Vengeance Is Its Own Reward. This is a prequel to Vengeance Is Mine.
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Shirley
by Charlotte Brontë
Categories: Fiction » Literature
Amid the social and economic upheaval of industrial England, a strong-willed woman navigates love, labor disputes, and societal expectations. Her courage and compassion challenge the conventions around her, revealing the personal and moral struggles that shape a changing world.
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Mosses from an Old Manse
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Categories: Fiction » Mystery
Discover 19th-century New England stories blending gothic horror and moral allegory. Young Goodman Brown meets evil in a dark forest, losing faith. A scientist fatally removes his wife's birthmark. Rappaccini's Daughter is lethally poisoned by her father's experiments. These tales explore sin, ambition, and the human soul, captivating with symbolism and atmosphere that provoke reflection.
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Master and Man
by Leo Tolstoy
Categories: Fiction » Inspirational
A profound tale of survival, duty, and human compassion, following a wealthy man and his servant stranded in a deadly snowstorm. Facing nature’s relentless forces, they confront fear, pride, and mortality, discovering the transformative power of selflessness and shared humanity.
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Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
Categories: Fiction » Romance
A young woman is sent to live with wealthy relatives, where she navigates social expectations, love, and moral challenges. Amid family intrigue and societal pressures, she learns the value of integrity, discernment, and the quiet strength needed to shape her own destiny.
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