William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. This volume inclides amazing stories: "The Last of the Troubadours",...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. As the title suggests, this book serves as the collection of two entertaining short stories written...
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. This is collection of great stories includes "Strictly Business",...
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. This volume includes amazing stories like "The Rose of Dixie",...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. While being a gothic mystery novel, "Rodney Stone" contains so much more! This book has a fantastic...
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. "Heart of the West" is a collection of humorous and sentimental...
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of...
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, "The Beautiful and Damned" is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete...
The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Charles Dickens, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog - such as thedelusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastrous...
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Pair of Blue Eyes - third published novel, but not his third novel. This is because the very first novel he completed, he never published, and in fact he...
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset,...
This richly varied collection of observation, fancy and fiction shows the London he knew so intimately at its best and worst - its streets, theatres, inns, pawnshops, law courts, prisons, omnibuses and...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The White Company" is a huge historical novel set during the Hundred Years War. Together with the heroes...
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. "This Side of Paradise" was an immediate, spectacular success and established his literary reputation. The novel tells the...
Sylvia's Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whaling-port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire where the sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants. The people of Monkshaven hate the...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume contains twelve of author's best short stories like "The Last of the Legions", "Through...
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick." Partially based on real events, "Israel Potter: His Fifty...
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick". Praised by critics of Britain and United States, "Billy...
Dickens' genius for creating eccentric yet entirely captivating characters found its fullest expression in his third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, published in 1839. The narrative follows Nicholas as he escapes...
The Chimes is Charles Dickens novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Veck, a poor working-class man. Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result...
Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Danger! And Other Stories" is a collection of fascinating short stories like "One Crowded Hour," "A...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. One of his notable works is the novel "Beyond". Together with his heroes the author goes to spheres of unrestrained feelings. Love is depicted as...
The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18-year-old undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage...
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Memoirs of...
Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and...
It is the story of John Peerybingle and his family who are visited by a guardian angel in the form of a cricket who is constantly chirping on their hearth. A delightfully fantastic story, The Cricket on...
The setting is an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life. Battle is the only one of the five Christmas...
This novel, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Presenting a host of now-classic characters in a series of adventures, it displays the richness of his...
Magdalen Vanstone and Norah - her sister learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the discovery that their parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married...
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured...
In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, (Walter Wilding),...
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of larndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured...
This novel, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Presenting a host of now-classic characters in a series of adventures, it displays the richness of his...
Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his TourThrough the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable...
The "Genius" is Theodore Dreiser's autobiographical novel about the turn-of-the-century art scene. It explores the multiple con licts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional...
Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary...
Jennie Gerhardt was Theodore Dreiser's second novel and his first true commercial success. The story of love between beautiful young woman and very rich man Lester Kane. Lester wants to marry her, but...
Filled with drama and unexpected plot twists, Collins' Jezebel's Daughter is based on a play, The Red Vial, which was produced in 1858. A story of intrigue, betrayal and misplaced trust, revolves around...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. "The Portrait of a Lady" is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman,...
