Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is the first part of a "Mysteries and Adventures" series, containing author's...
The Financier tells the story of the ruthlessly dominating broker Frank Cowperwood as he climbs the ladder of success, his adoring mistress championing his every move. Based on the life of financier S....
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy & impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid...
Paul Dombey is a heartless London merchant who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business. In the tight orbit of his daily life there is no room for dealing with emotions because emotion has no...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Sherlock Holmes: A Drama in Four Acts" is a four-act play by William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan...
Paul Dombey is a heartless London merchant who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business. In the tight orbit of his daily life there is no room for dealing with emotions because emotion has no...
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,...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. Filled with supernatural events, horrific scientific experiments, and bizarre events, "Tales of Twilight...
At the height of his career Charles Dickens wrote a series of sketches, mostly set in London, which he collected as The Uncommercial Traveller. In the persona of "the Uncommercial," Dickens wanders the...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. As another vivid example of the author's love for historical events, "The Refugees" It revolves around...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. "Confidence" is a great novel which centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist...
Arthur Conan Doyle was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales II" is the second volume in the series, consisting of wonderful...
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. The pilgrimage of the title is a journey to see the famous Passion Play at Oberammergau, which has been performed every ten years since 1634, the...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. "On Forsyte 'Change" deals in the main with the older Forsytes before the events chronicled in "The Man of Property".
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. Hawthorne's awesome novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on...
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. "The Well-Beloved" completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art,...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. This is a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne's stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool,...
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is a wonderful collection of selected short stories like "That Veteran," "The...
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history. His view is that of...
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. This is Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against...
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. "The Trumpet-Major" is one of Hardy's most underrated and unpredictable works. Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill, has three suitors:...
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. "The Last Tycoon" is a magnificient story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's booming film industry. The...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. In this final volume of "The Forsyte Chronicles" Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism Startling novel "The Other House" is the story of a struggle for possession - and...
F. S. Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
