Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. "Plain Tales from the Hills" was his first volume of prose fiction. Vignettes of life in British India give vivid insights...
Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.Kate Sheriff, a young American woman, knew without a shadow of a doubt what her calling was. She was to move to India where...
John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met. When Harmon's body is pulled out of...
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 story collection includes "The World and the Door", "The...
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. "Malvina of Brittany" is a highly entertaining work that describes the life of Malvina, the Queen's attendant. This is a early shortstory collection...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. This volume includes such amazing three amazing stories "Fanshawe", "The Snow-Image" and "The New Adam and Eve".
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...
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. This volume answers on such questions like "Are we as interesting as we think we are?", "Should women be beautiful?", "When is the best time to...
James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. This volume includes the only extant play in three acts by the great writer "Exiles". There are obvious parallels to be drawn...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and...
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. "Cabbages and Kings" is a wonderful volume of stories in which...
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. "Tommy and Co" is a collection of funny stories, which happend with the group of journalists "Fleet Street" and their adventures. This volume includes...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Child of Storm is a sequel to Haggard's novel Marie, where Allan...
John Sheppard was a notorious English robber and thief of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723. He was arrested and...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Micah Clarke" is a historical adventure novel set in the times of Monmouth Rebellion in England. The...
A fallen woman would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her Ruth. Overturning the conventional assumption that a woman...
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Micah Clarke" is a historical adventure novel set in the times of Monmouth Rebellion...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Wives and Daughters is far more than a nostalgic evocation of village life; it offers an ironic critique of mid-Victorian...
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. "A Group of Noble Dames" is great short story collection, which includes such works like "The Lady Penelope", "The Duchess Of Hamptonshire", "The...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America. The story of the...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Land of Mist" is the third novel about Professor Challenger, heavily inspired by the ideas of Spiritualism....
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The American" is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Poison Belt" is a remarkable science fiction tale that continues the story of the heroes from "The...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature,...
William Willcie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This Collins' work were classified at the time as "sensation novel", a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature,...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. In the novel "Watch and Ward" wealthy and leisured Roger Lawrence adopts twelve-year-old...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book includes two great science fiction stories from the cycle of the Professor Challenger's adventures:...
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",...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and...
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",...
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but there are also...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature,...
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Written in the early 1860s, No Name was rejected as immoral by critics of its time, but is today regarded as a novel of outstanding...
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...
Jane Austen is one of the most enduring and skilled English novelists. With her wit, social perception and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she...
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...
