PDF Books in Tragic Fiction
The Return of the Native
by Thomas HardyThe Return of the Native is a sensational novel written by the English Novelist Thomas Hardy, who is remembered for his multitude of literary works in the form of novels, short stories, poems, and plays. Out of his numerous writings, notable are The Poor Man and the Lady, The Woodlanders, The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Pair of Blue Eyes, and The H..
Under the Greenwood Tree
by Thomas HardyThomas Hardy's pastoral novel Under The Greenwood Tree explores the triangle romance between School mistress Fancy Day, Church musician Dick Dewy and the vicar Maybold. While Fancy Day's beauty made Dick to be longing for her, Maybold loved her skills of playing modern organ music. Initially Fancy falls in love with Dick and gets engaged secretly. ..
A Pair of Blue Eyes
by Thomas HardyThomas hardy' s another tragic novel A Pair of Blue Eyes, explores the life of Elfride Swancourt, who was unfortunate to marry an elderly man, in-spite of being loved by Stephen Smith and Henry Knight in her early years. Henry Knight, a relative of Elfride's step mother wish to marry her. However knowing her early relationship with Stephen Smith, h..
The Trumpet Major
by Thomas HardyThe Trumpet-Major is a novel written by Thomas Hardy during Napoleonic wars and ironically with preliminary note by the author. Anne Garland's suitors the brothers John Loveday, serving British regiment and Bob Loveday, a sailor and Festus Derriman, a coward. While John fights in Peninsular War, Bob serving at Trafalgar. Though this novel does not ..
The Woodlanders
by Thomas HardyThe Woodlanders is a tragic novel explores the adultery in the then England while divorce was not legalized. Grace Melbury's childhood love and romance with Giles Winterborne takes a break as her father felt Giles' financial status would ruin her life. Edgar Fitzpiers, a doctor persuades Grace's father to get her married. As their life progress, Gr..
A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Tragedy of the Korosko (1898) is a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was serialized a year earlier in The Strand magazine between May and December 1897, and was later turned into a play Fires of Fate. A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in "a turtle-bottomed, round..
The Beast in the Jungle
by Henry JamesThe Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. The parable of John Marcher and his peculiar destiny has spoken to many readers..
The Portrait of a Lady Vol I
by Henry JamesThe Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular long novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest. The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, wh..