Found 134 results for "West africa in fiction"
The Man in the Brown Suit
by Agatha Christie
Everybody has been at me, right and left, to write this story from the great (represented by Lord Nasby) to the small (r...
Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
I HAD this story from one who had no business to tell it to to me, or to any other.
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
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...
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
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...
King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
It is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.
She
by H. Rider Haggard
There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...
Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare dramatizes a major event in world history, the founding of the Roman Empire around ...
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
by Olaudah Equiano
PERMIT me with the greatest deference and respect, to lay at your feet the following genuine Narrative; the chief design...
Terre des hommes
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In 1926 I was enrolled as student airline pilot by the Latecoere Company, the predecessors of Aeropostale (now Air Franc...
Cinq semaines en ballon
by Jules Verne
THERE was a large audience assembled on the 14th of January, 1862, at the session of the Royal Geographical Society, No....
Roots
by Alex Haley
Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a m...
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears
by Verna Aardema
One morning a mosquito saw an iguana drinking at a waterhole.
Allan Quatermain
by H. Rider Haggard
I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken.