Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. "The Misfortunes of Elphin" is a awesome novella. It is set in a somewhat historically fanciful Arthurian Britain...
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. Peacock's retelling of the legend of Robin Hood is as fresh today as it was when he penned it, nearly two hundred...
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. "Headlong Hall" like most of Peacock's novels, it assembles a group of characters Mr Cranium, Miss Poppyseed,...
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Le Fanu's last major novel "Willing to Die" considered one...
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Being an intriguing mystery thriller, "Uncle Silas" tells...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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. "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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
