Found 909 results for "Lakes in fiction"
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...
A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of log...
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet A. Jacobs
Eu nasci escrava, mas nunca soube disso até que seis anos de uma infância feliz tivessem se passado.
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
Wells uses first-person narration in The War of the Worlds.
The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells
THE STRANGER CAME early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...
Othello
by William Shakespeare
'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...