PDF Books in Social Life Fiction
Hide and Seek
by Wilkie CollinsHide and Seek was Wilkie Collins' third published novel. It is the first of his novels involving the solution of a mystery, the elements of which are clearer to the reader than to the novel's characters. Suspense is created from the reader's uncertainty as to which characters will find out the truth, when and how. ..
The Princess Casamassima - A Novel
by Henry JamesTo look for the little boy she came out of her small parlour, which she had been ashamed to exhibit in so untidy a state, with paper ‘patterns’ lying about on the furniture and snippings of stuff scattered over the carpet—she came out of this somewhat stuffy sanctuary, dedicated at once to social intercourse and to the ingenious art to which her li..
Lodore, Vol. 1 (of 3)
by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyLodore, is a social life and customs fiction work written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published in three volume.The mansion of the Fitzhenry family, which looked upon the village green, was wholly incommensurate to our humblest ideas of what belongs to nobility; yet it stood in solitary splendour, the Great House of Longfield. From time imme..
Lodore, Vol. 2 (of 3)
by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyLodore, is a social life and customs fiction work written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published in three volume.The abstracted, wounded, yet lofty spirit of Lodore was totally dissimilar to the airy brightness of Villiers' disposition. Lodore had outlived a storm, and shown himself majestic in ruin. No ill had tarnished the nature of Villier..
Lodore, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyLodore, is a social life and customs fiction work written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published in three volume.Ethel had slept peacefully through the livelong night; nor woke till a knock at her door roused her. A rush of fear—a sense of ill, made her heart palpitate as she opened her eyes to the light of day. While she was striving to reca..
The Dazzling Miss Davison
by Florence WardenA roomy, comfortable, old-fashioned house in Bayswater, with high windows, big rooms, and little balconies just big enough to hold a wealth of flowers in summer and a very pretty show of evergreens when the season for flowers was past.On October a row of asters, backed up by a taller row of foliage plants, made the house look bright and pretty, and..
Jean Craig in New York
by Kay LyttletonWhen lovely Jean Craig moved with her family to Woodhow farm in Connecticut, she thought she was giving up her art lessons forever. And then suddenly the opportunity came to go to New York to study, and she went to live with her cousin Beth in the suburbs of New York. These months were an exciting interlude in her life. She loved seeing her old fri..
Grey Wethers - A Romantic Novel
by V. Sackville-WestMore than half a century has now elapsed since the events which added a new legend to the hard ancient hills lying about Marlborough and King’s Avon. The last organised rustic Scouring of the White Horse of King’s Avon,—from which occasion these events may properly be said to date, although a believer in predestination might be found to contend tha..