didactic fiction

Picks up where Aesop's tale left off, using the tortoise and hare's subsequent years of competition to teach several life lessons and show the power of fables.

An adaptation of Wilde's story about a youth of exceptional beauty who gets his wish to remain untouched by the passage of time when it is arranged that his portrait will age in his place.

In a moment of moral crisis, Ethan Hawley, a clerk in a New England grocery store, departs from his high standards to provide for the material comforts he cannot afford for his restless wife and discontented children.

In seventeenth-century New England, Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she had committed.

A novel about the history of philosophy, that uses the life of a schoolgirl, Sophie, as a backdrop for a discussion of the meaning of life.

Clym Yeobright, tired of Paris city life, returns to Egdon Heath to open a school. There he marries a pleasure-loving girl and tragedy follows.