Found 336 results for "Middle East in fiction"
Murder in Mesopotamia
by Agatha Christie
IN the hall of the Tigris Palace Hotel in Baghdad a hospital nurse was finishing a letter.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...
Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
MRS. RACHEL LYNDE lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladie...
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a part...
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...
The Innocents Abroad
by Mark Twain
For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...
They Came to Baghdad
by Agatha Christie
Captain Crosbie came out of the bank with the pleased air of one who has cashed a cheque and has discovered that there i...
Ἀνάβασις
by Xenophon
Darius and Parysatis had two sons: the elder was named Artaxerxes, and I the younger Cyrus.
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through.
Triple
by Ken Follett
The public-address system at Cairo airport made a noise like a doorbell, and then the arrival of the Alitalia flight fro...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T. E. Lawrence
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances.
An Arabian tale
by William Beckford, Samuel Henley
VATHEK, ninth Caliph of the race of the Abassides, was the son of Motassem, and the grandson of Haroun al Raschid.
The Sea-Hawk
by Rafael Sabatini
SIR OLIVER TRESSILIAN sat at his ease in the lofty dining-room of the handsome house of Penarrow, which he owed to the e...
A House for Mr. Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
SHORTLY BEFORE he was born there had been another quarrel between Mr Biswas's mother Bipti and his father Raghu, and Bip...
The Kill Artist
by Daniel Silva
By coincidence Timothy Peel arrived in the village the same week in July as the stranger.
The Physician
by Noah Gordon
Es waren Robs letzte, ruhige Augenblicke seliger Unwissenheit, doch in seiner Einfalt empfand er es als unbillig, daß er...