Aristopia is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed if one man with the vision,...
The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of stories with...
Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to gain a soul. It i...
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‘The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen’ is an enjoyable & satirical account of the fictitious exploits and travels of the fictionalized ‘Baron...
The book opens with a little girl, Betsy, wishing for another Alice book. She passes into a dream, and finds in the attic a book which begins with Ali...
Beautiful simple tale of a brother and two sisters who go to live temporarily at a lovely house called Rosebuds. There they find a hidden door in the...
The setting of the story is the imaginary village of Quiquendone in West Flanders whose citizens are described as "well-to-do folks, wise, prudent, so...
The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his decades long cosmic journey to Heaven; his accidental misplacement after racing a comet; his short-l...
Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology no...
One of the best-known works of Victorian literature, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had huge influence on popular culture and l...
A short story in a book form that’s more like a fantasy about a man who finds five jars in the woods and finds out how using the contents makes him aw...
The full title of this book, published in 1909, is The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas. As early as the second century, numero...
The novel follows the story of Peregrinus Tyss, who becomes entangled in the conflict between supernatural characters in bourgeois form over Dörtje El...
The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The...
The Völsunga saga is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century poetic rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the...
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The Hobbit is an epic tale of heroism, friendship, and adventure that takes place in the gorgeous, vast, and storied world of MIDDLE-EARTH. Living con...
Caroline, Charles and Charlotte do, and nothing that happens during their summer holiday at their great uncle's house does anything to diminish that b...
"A Political History of the Devil" This book is divided into two parts: first, the history of the devil from his fall from heaven up to the time the...
Han d'Islande is a youth novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1823. The first version appeared, without an author's name, in Le Conservateur littéraire...
The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. Written before the firs...
This is the story of Snowflower. Left to fend for herself by her grandmother, Dame Frostyface, Snowflower turns to the ‘wonderful chair’ for company....
It is an allegoric romance (story) divided into Seven Days, or Seven Journeys, like Genesis, and recounts how Christian Rosenkreuz was invited to go t...
The Flying Inn is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1914. It is set in a future England where the temperance movement has allowed a biza...
