PDF Books in Legal Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles DickensA Tale of two cities is based on the theme of revolutionaries’ vengeance against aristocracy. Aristocracy spoiled their life. Now it is the turn of revolutionaries. Unfortunately many aristocrats who were not guilty were also victims of this revolt against the aristocracy. Notable victims of this revolt are Charles Darnay, a former French aris..
Bleak House
by Charles DickensBleak House is written by Charles Dickens, an English novelist of the Victorian era and the writer of the most famous literature works including “A Tale of Two Cities”, “Great Expectations”, “ A Christmas Carol” and “Oliver Twist” to name a few. Bleak House has been conceived by the author’s own experiences in the flaws of British Judicial..
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark TwainThe Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson is a novel, which explores racism and human tendencies under extraordinary circumstances written by Mark Twain, an American novelist remembered for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Roxy, a slave of Driscoll, exchange identities of her son Chambers and her master’s son To..
The Awkward Age
by Henry JamesThe Awkward Age is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Harper's Weekly in 1898-1899 and then as a book later in 1899. Originally conceived as a brief, light story about the complications created in her family's social set by a young girl coming of age, the novel expanded into a general treatment of decadence and corruption in Eng..
The Dead Alive
by Wilkie CollinsThe Dead Alive, also called John Jago’s Ghost, is a novella written in 1874 by Wilkie Collins based on the Boorn Brothers murder case. It was reprinted with a side-by-side examination of the case by Rob Warden in 2005 by Northwestern Press. This novel is based on the true-life Boorn Brothers murder conviction case of 1819. Jesse and Step..
The Dead Secret - A Novel
by Wilkie CollinsThe Dead Secret is Collins' last work before he struck gold with The Woman in White, and it marks a considerable step forward from the novels which preceded it. On her deathbed, Mrs Treverton, the wife of the wealthy Captain Treverton, dictates a confession to her maid, Sarah Leeson, to pass to her husband and makes her swear that she will never de..
The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki ShikibuReaders of the Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, translated by Madame Omori and Professor Doi, will remember that the second of the three diaries is that of a certain Murasaki Shikibu. The little that is known of this lady’s life has been set forth by Miss Amy Lowell in her Introduction to that book. A few dates, most of them very insecure, wil..
The Seven Lamps of Advocacy
by Edward Abbott ParryThe great advocate is like the great actor: he fills the stage for his span of life, succeeds, gains our applause, makes his last bow, and the curtain falls. Nothing is so elusive as the art of acting, unless indeed it be the sister art of advocacy. You cannot say that the methods of Garrick, Kean or Irving, Erskine, Hawkins or Russell, were the ri..