Found 1,316 results for "Oxford (England) -- Fiction"
The Lost World
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth-a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, ...
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a lively, vigorous and much-adapted play.
Northern Lights
by Philip Pullman
Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...
Villette, a novel
by Charlotte Brontë
My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
When I reached 'C' Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming i...
Shirley
by Charlotte Brontë
Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; ever...
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 ...
The Riddle of the Sands
by Erskine Childers
I HAVE read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude-save for a few black fac...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...
American notes
by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...
Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens, Margeret Tarner
IN these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputabl...
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction-what has that go to do with a room of one's own?