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...
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 stylist,...
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,...
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. "The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" is a collection of humorous essays. This collection offers the author's witty observations on all manner...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. In "The Sacred Fount" an unnamed narrator attempts to discover the truth about...
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. "The Observations of Henry" is the collection of wonderful tales told by the waiter Henry to the author, mostly about people he has known and how...
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...
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VII is a collection of brilliant short stories: The Scandal Detectives, He Thinks He's Wonderful, The Captured...
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".
Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. "The Naulahka" is a remarkable work of fiction by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier, came under severe criticism by...
Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. "The Light That Failed" is a haunting and powerful novel of human suffering, love and loss. In Dick Heldar, artist and...
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...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. "The Europeans" is a wonderful comedy, contrasting the behaviour and attitudes...
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 was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Crime of the Congo" is a book intended to expose the situation of serious human rights abuses in...
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...
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. When it's time to relax after dinner the members of a family and their guests turn to telling ghost stories. These ghoulish accounts range from...
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 stylist,...
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...
Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. "Stalky & Co" is a great novel about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories...
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:...
Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. "Soldiers Three" is a collection of short stories. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris,...
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...
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. In "Wessex Tales" his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly...
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...
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. A charming story in which fiction is intertwined with autobiographical motifs, and humor goes side by side with delicate lyricism. How true to...
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...
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. "The Spoils of Poynton" describes the struggle between Mrs. Gereth, a widow of...
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. "Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green" is a short story collection. This volume includes such interesting stories like: "Reginald Blake", "Financier...
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...
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 collections of wonderful stories includes "The Dream", "A...
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...
