William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He also wrote great stories for children based on Greek myth and legend. They are incomparable retellings of themes...
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. "The Blithedale Romance", considered one of Hawthorne's major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. The stories in "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" are all stories within a story. The frame story being that a Williams...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. This volume includes wonderful stories like "The First and The Last", "A Stoic", "The Apple Tree", "The Juryman" and "Indian Summer of a Forsyte...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. Roderick Hudson, egotistical, beautiful and an exceptionally gifted sculptor. He...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. This volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. This volume includes some amazing stories like "Villa Rubein", "A Man of Devon", "A Knight", "Salvation of a Forsyte" and "The Silence".
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. "The Outcry" is an effervescent comedy of money and manners. Breckenridge Bender,...
Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated...
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. In the semi-autobiographical novel "Paul Kelver" details the eponymous narrator's rocky road through life, including his stints as an actor, a...
Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. "The Princess Casamassima" is the wonderful story of an intelligent but confused...
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...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright whose literary career spanned the Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian eras. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 "for his distinguished...
Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward. Through the example and guidance of her mother, who dotes...
Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property...
"Le Temps retrouve" est le septieme et dernier tome de "A la recherche du temps perdu" de Marcel Proust, publie en 1927 a titre posthume.L'oeuvre s'ouvre sur le sejour du narrateur chez Gilberte de Saint-Loup...
"A l'ombre des jeunes fi lles en fl eurs" est le deuxieme tome de "A la recherche du temps perdu" de Marcel Proust publie en 1919.Dans cette premiere partie du roman, le narrateur parle de ses relations...
"Albertine disparue", originellement titre "La Fugitive", est le sixieme tome de "A la recherche du temps perdu" de Marcel Proust, paru en 1925 a titre posthume.Albertine disparue est le dernier volume...
"Sodome et Gomorrhe" est le quatrieme volet de "A la recherche du temps perdu" de Marcel Proust publie en 1921 pour le premier tome et en 1922 pour le deuxieme. Le theme principal du roman est la degradation...
Probably the fi rst full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady is a fascinating example of Collins' later fi ction.Despite the grave misgivings of both their families,...
The secret of Wilkie Collins's success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating plotskillfully combines melodrama, detective and a manners novel in his books,...
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre.The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen...
Conrad's unfinished novel that he was working on before his death in 1924, in which he returns to one of his favorite subjects: the French Revolution. Unlike Duel, his character here is a young Englishman...
This novel takes place in ancient Egypt. The hero, prince Rames, goes through many challenges and daring encounters to win his way through to the woman he loved with all his heart and the recognition that...
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fl uently until his twenties, he was a master prose...
The novel tells the inspiring story of a beautiful English maiden named Margaret, who faces hardship during the opening phases of the Spanish Inquisition in the late 1400's. As Margaret and her family...
F.S.Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. "All the Sad Young Men" is a wonderful short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel's themes, as...
Haggard's faith-fortifying novel is a delicious blend of stirring events, captivating characters, and historical detail. The story is about the destruction of Jerusalem, about first-century life as they...
During the Carlist war of the early 1870s, a young sailor, the unnamed protagonist, joins the champions of Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender to the throne of Spain. The Carlists use the eager youth's intense...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre.The novel narrates the events of the Biblical...
The author of adventures as King Solomon's Mines and She turns to domestic drama in this romance. Joan is a shop girl of illegitimate birth a single mother at the same time. Torn from the love of country-dwelling...
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolifi c and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique...
This is a tale of adventure and derring-do set in the time of King Henry VIII and the pilgrimage of grace. This was the period when King Henry was rebelling against Pope Clement VII, and when many Englishmen...
