Fiction Chapters

Great novels are often connected-to (or based-on) real-life events. It's fun to search-for (and uncover) those connections. This Collection features fictional stories with real-life tie-ins.

Losing hope, many Britons flee the country; others yield to Anglo-Saxons and become their slaves.

The residents of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, produce products used throughout the world.

At the age of nine, C.S. Lewis (Jack) lost his mother to cancer and he does not understand why God allows this to happen.

After prison, Dostoevsky has failed love relationships and becomes addicted to gambling.

Dostoevsky's writing reflects his belief that suffering is a part of life.

After completing his criminal sentence, Dostoevsky suffers bad relationships and turns to gambling.

Dr. Henry Jekyll has written a full account of his experiments, which caused him to turn into Edward Hyde, but no one reads his statement until after ...

Concerned that Dr. Jekyll has willed his fortune to an unknown man called Hyde, Gabriel Utterson visits his friend and client, the doctor, to make sur...

Now that Henry Jekyll has disappeared, or died, Gabriel Utterson is cleared to read a letter which Dr. Lanyon has given him. He is stunned at its cont...

As Godfather Drosselmeier continues his story about Princess Pirlipat, he stuns Marie. What happened to Pirlipat while the cats were asleep?

In the 1600s, the East India Company becomes one of the most powerful businesses in the world.

Mother spiders lay their eggs inside a silken egg sac which resembles a cocoon; they may carry it with them or attach it somewhere else.

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