Books tagged with Fiction[650 found]
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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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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 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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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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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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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
Born in a workhouse and apprenticed to cruelty, a lonely orphan flees to London and falls into the clutches of a gang of pickpockets led by a charming villain. As he struggles to keep his innocence amid crime, betrayal, and unexpected kindness, his true origins emerge, drawing him toward peril—and a chance at belonging. Along the way, unlikely allies risk everything to save him.
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A lively young woman with an overactive imagination enters the world of high society, where romance and intrigue seem to leap from the pages of her beloved gothic novels. Amid misunderstandings and unexpected affection, she learns to distinguish fantasy from truth and finds love grounded in sincerity and sense.
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Jacob's Room
by Virginia Woolf
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A modernist exploration of a young man’s life unfolds through fragmented impressions, memories, and encounters. Beyond a linear narrative, it examines identity, relationships, and the fleeting nature of existence, offering a profound meditation on human experience and perception.
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The Man Who Laughs
by Victor Hugo
A disfigured man with a haunting smile becomes both spectacle and symbol in a world obsessed with power and appearance. Through love, loss, and injustice, his tragic journey reveals the cruelty and compassion of the human heart.
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This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A handsome, restless Midwestern boy wins his way into elite schools, smoky clubs, and doomed romances, always chasing beauty, status, and a self he can admire. From campus pranks to postwar disillusion and flapper glitter, his friendships and affairs crumble as he discovers charm alone can’t protect a hollow soul from growing up.
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
Categories: Fiction » Politics
On his thirtieth birthday, a bank clerk is arrested without being told the crime. Drawn through airless attics and shadowed offices, he meets a wheedling lawyer, a weary painter, and judges no one can face. Pride curdles to dread as the machinery of accusation grinds on, forcing him to question guilt, freedom, and the sentence already closing in.
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