Books tagged with Fiction[970 found]
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The Vegetable
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
A timid clerk seethes with grand dreams of becoming President, egged on and mocked by his ambitious wife, noisy in-laws, and a blur of speakeasies, trains, and absurd campaign promises. When a wild night hurls him into a surreal shot at power, he must decide whether glory beats simply being left in peace, or if the real joke is on every American dreamer.
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A Sicilian Romance
by Ann Radcliffe
In a Sicilian castle, two sisters uncover dark family secrets. Haunted by ghostly visions and eerie sounds, they navigate forbidden love and a tyrannical father’s schemes. As hidden truths unravel, their quest for freedom leads through labyrinthine corridors and perilous escapes, weaving a thrilling tale of mystery, romance, and gothic intrigue set against a sun-drenched Mediterranean backdrop
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge, a stingy loner, despises Christmas until three spirits visit him one night. They unveil his past mistakes, present sorrows, and a dark future, pushing him toward redemption. This enchanting story of transformation weaves humor, heart, and the magic of the holiday spirit, urging readers to embrace kindness and change
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The twelve adventurers, and other stories
by Charlotte Brontë
Categories: Fiction » Fantasy
Written in a fierce, precocious voice, these miniature epics follow twelve bold conspirators through storm-lashed coasts, candlelit courts, and battle-scarred colonies. Duels, disguises, and perilous vows blaze into tales of ambition, friendship, and first love, while quieter sketches reveal the lonely fire of imagination that forges kingdoms out of ink and defiance.
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The Portrait of a Lady— Volume 1
by Henry James
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A headstrong American arrives in Europe determined to live widely, not wisely. In drawing rooms from Albany to Florence she dazzles cousins and suitors, refuses safe marriages, and, after an unexpected inheritance, becomes prey to subtler designs. Friends warn, flatterers scheme, and a cultivated stranger beckons, as freedom itself becomes the most dangerous temptation.
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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog)
by Jerome K. Jerome
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
Three mildly hypochondriac friends and a dog escape London’s bustle for a camping trip on the Thames, armed with bad maps, worse packing, and boundless overconfidence. Lost tents, exploding tins, flirtations, rainstorms, and absurd mishaps turn their lazy holiday into a hilariously chaotic voyage of friendship and self-mockery.
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All the Sad Young Men
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A poignant collection of short stories capturing the disillusionment and yearning of the Jazz Age. Young men and women navigate love, ambition, and heartbreak in a glittering yet hollow world. Each tale unveils the fragile dreams and restless spirits of a generation chasing fleeting pleasures, revealing the bittersweet cost of their desires in vivid, evocative prose.
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Redburn: His First Voyage
by Herman Melville
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A naive boy signs onto a merchant ship and is pitched into a harsh apprenticeship—bullying mates, brutal chores, and the bitter cold Atlantic. In Liverpool’s alleys he confronts poverty and pride, learning how class and cruelty shadow every harbor. Amid storms, small kindnesses, and hard lessons, he sheds illusions and discovers what courage and conscience truly cost at sea.
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David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A young orphan rises from a harsh childhood in Victorian England, facing cruel stepfathers, grueling workhouses, and fleeting joys. Through friendships, love, and betrayal, his resilient spirit seeks a place in a turbulent world. This sweeping saga of growth and discovery weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope, capturing the enduring quest for identity and belonging.
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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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