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William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. “Cymbeline” is a romantic play set in Ancient Britain and based on the legends of the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. It tells the story of the commoner Posthumus who falls in love with the princess Imogen. She marries him, but the King Cymbeline, her father, finds about it and exiles Posthumus.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. Being one of the most popular comedy works for the stage even in our days, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” tells the story of Hermia from Athens, who is in love with Lysander. Not willing to obey her father’s will to marry Demetrius, they both run to the woods to avoid the death sentence. Demetrius pursues them, while also pursued by Helena, who is in love with him. Then they and a group of six actors fall under the influence of the fairies who inhabit the forest.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. “The Merchant of Venice” is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. The action takes place partly in Venice and Belmonte. Young Bassanio, who is in debt, decided to marry rich beauty Portia and asks his friend, merchant Antonio, for help. Antonio decides to help him and takes money from a local usurer Shylock. Under the terms of the bill, if he does not return the debt on time, Shylock has the right to cut a pound of meat from the merchant’s body.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. “The Merry Wives of Windsor” is a five-act comedy the action of which takes place in the city of Windsor and its environs. It also features Sir John Falstaff, the fat knight who also was one of the characters in both parts of “Henry IV.” Nominally set in the reign of Henry IV, this play is the only one where the action doesn’t shy away from the fact that it takes place in the Queen Elizabeth era, and most of the characters are representatives of the middle class of English society.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. Also known as “Twelfth Night, or What You Will,” this play is a comedy that revolves around the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola, disguised as a man named Cesario, falls in love with Duke Orsino, who is also in love with Countess Olivia. On the other side Countess falls in love with Viola thinking she is a man, thus creating an intriguing love triangle.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. The plot of the play “Measure for Measure” Shakespeare borrowed from the collection “Hecatommithi” by Giovanni Battista Giraldi. Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, realizing that during his reign there was a fall in morals, declares that he is going on a diplomatic mission outside his domains and leaves the strict judge Angelo in charge. Angelo soon uses his power and decides to execute the young nobleman Claudio, because he and his beloved pregnant Juliet aren’t married. This event forces Isabella, Claudio’s sister, to try to make a deal with an incorruptible judge.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. “The Tempest” traditionally considered one of the last Shakespeare plays. The plot of this tragicomedy revolves around the magician Prospero, the Duke of Milan, who was overthrown by his brother Antonio and the King of Naples, Alonso, and exiled from Milan. Both he and his daughter Miranda were put on an old ship and sent to the open sea, forcing them to go on a dangerous adventure.

Twain's time travel tale takes you back to the time of King Authur and the Knights of the Round Table. Unlike most glamorous takes on the old tale, Twain paints a picture of absurdity, superstition, and human misery. The honor culture of brave knights and fair maidens is revealed to be a place of incredible ignorance, extreme poverty, and shameful inequality. The narrator of the book, Hank, finds himself unexplainably in sixth century England, where he quickly asserts himself as a magician by utilizing his knowledge of science and history. Fred is a remarkably competent man is able to begin a transformation of the realm into a more friendly and advanced place. Industry, politics, and universal suffrage are his aims, and he makes rapid progress in all three. The humor in the book centers around Hank outwitting the inhabitants of the past, especially Merlin.

Thomas Mann – legendarer deutscher Schriftsteller, Essayist, Meister des epischen Romans, Literatur-Nobelpreistrager 1929. „Der Zauberberg“ ist ein Roman, der virtuos die Welt in einer Tuberkulose-Heilstatte in den Schweizer Alpen schildert. Seine Bewohner sind genotigt, sich hier jahrelang aufzuhalten. Der Kontakt zur Au?enwelt erfolgt nur uber seltene Briefe und Telegramme. Hier zieht sich die Zeit unmerklich hin, Leben und Tod verlieren ihren Sinn, die kleinsten Nuancen der zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen erlangen dagegen eine schmerzhafte Scharfe und Bedeutung.

Emile Zola est un classique de la litterature francaise du XIXe siecle. Le roman Au Bonheur des dames n’est pas qu’une nouvelle edition de l’histoire d’une Cendrillon et de son «prince charmant», c’est l’occasion de re?echir a ce que c’est le vrai amour, l’amitie, l’entetement et la generosite. Cette etonnante histoire n’arrete pas de captiver les c?urs des lecteurs du monde entier.

Guy de Maupassant est le maitre de la nouvelle litterature francaise du XIXe siecle, repute pour ses nouvelles a chute. Il a publie une vingtaine de recueils de morceaux de prose en neuf ans, avec un penchant pour le naturalisme. «Bel-Ami» est un roman phare. Le personnage de Georges Duroy, un arriviste cynique et coureur de jupons, est bien connu au public du monde entier. Ce charmeur qui seduit des femmes du monde ne s’arrete devant rien pour s’extirper de la pauvrete et trouver sa place dans la bonne societe. Mais est-ce que la concretisation de son reve le rendra heureux?

A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Through a series of vignettes, Elizabeth Gaskell portrays a community governed by old-fashioned habits and dominated by friendships between women. Her wry account of rural life is undercut, however, by tragedy in its depiction of such troubling events as Matty's bankruptcy, the violent death of Captain Brown or the unwitting cruelty of Peter Jenkyns. Written with acute observation, Cranford is by turns affectionate, moving and darkly satirical.

Lope de Vega fue uno de los poetas y dramaturgos mas importantes del Siglo de Oro espanol y, por la extension de su obra, uno de los autores mas prolificos de la literatura universal. "El perro del hortelano" es una comedia brillante creada a inicios del siglo XVII y que sigue cautivando el corazon de los lectores en todo el mundo con su ironia y actualidad. Diana, la condesa napolitana se enamora de su secretario Teodoro. Sin embargo, la idea de que su “casamiento desigual” pueda ser censurado por la sociedad convierte sus relaciones en escenas inverosimiles de reproches y ofensas mutuas. Сomo los enamorados aciertan a hacer realidad su ilusion

Frankenstein, an instant bestseller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science ? ction genres, not only tells a terrifying story, but also raises profound, disturbing questions about the very nature of life and the place of humankind within the cosmos: What does it mean to be human? What responsibilities do we have to each other? How far can we go in tampering with Nature?

L’un des plus grands maitres de la satire francaise du XVIe siecle, Francois Rabelais est un classique de la litterature mondiale. «Gargantua et Pantagruel» est la oeuvre magistrale qui n’a rien perdu de son actualite. Ce roman satirique a l’humour grotesque decrit un voyage d’un pere et d’un fils au pays des Geants. Des personnages insolites, un recit pittoresque et des aventures inoubliables – tout un regal pour le lecteur!

In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman – and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations."

Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and the brutish Yahoos give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift's savage satire view mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.

More than a century after its publication Heart of Darkness remains an indisputably classic text and arguably Conrad’s finest work. Taking place mostly in Africa, it tells the story of Europeans going to the Congo in search of goods to bring back, mostly ivory. They do this in the name of ?ImperialismB, but Conrad makes it very clear from the beginning that there is no civilization creation going on. Through corruption and exploitation of the blacks, the Europeans gain as much ivory as they can. However, it seems there is another process going on. The deep recesses of the jungle do something to a man, change him, and somehow demoralization begins.

Francis Morgan, a wealthy heir of industrialist and Wall Street maven Richard Henry Morgan, is a jaded young New Yorker. When his father's business partner Thomas Regan suggests that Francis take a holiday in Central America, ostensibly to search for the treasure of the Morgans' legendary ancestor, Francis thinks it's a splendid idea. But he never suspects what adventures await across the border...

Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. With a heroine full of yearning, the dangerous secrets she encounters, and the choices she finally makes, Charlotte Bronte's innovative and enduring romantic novel continues to engage and provoke readers.

Two men – a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama – are at the center of the novel. A quest faces them both. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama. His aim, as he moves chameleon-like through the two cultures, is to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life.

Emile Zola est un grand classique de la litterature francaise du XIXe siecle. «L’Assommoir» est un des plus beaux fl eurons de la litterature mondiale. Des banlieues de Paris du XIXe siecle sont presentees au lecteur sous une lumiere sordide. Accables par les privations, l’heroine principale, Gervaise, et son mari Coupeau cherchent a s’extirper de la misere. Vont-ils y reussir ou c’est le debut de leur degringolade?

L’un des ecrivains francais les plus connus, Honore de Balzac est un pilier du realisme europeen. "La Peau de chagrin" compte parmi ses uvres les plus illustres. Raphael brule la chandelle par les deux bouts sans avoir aucune envie de mettre fin a ses tribulations. En recherchant le luxe, le jeune homme penetre dans un etablissement pauvrement decore qui pourtant regorge d’argent. Un spectacle dechirant de destins pietines, la maison de jeu est une illusion eternelle hantant ceux qui veulent etre quelqu’un d’important ou ne plus etre du tout...

This is the story of Lady Constance Chatterley, or ‘Connie’, her loveless marriage to Sir Clifford Chatterley, a man rendered both physically and emotionally crippled and impotent by the First World War, and her love affair with their gamekeeper, Mellors, a unique character who has deliberately retreated from opportunities for social and economic advancement and returned to his working class roots. The story is completely character-driven, which is why its grand themes of the immutability of the class divide, the dangers of championing the mind over the body and the fundamental human need for true ‘connexion’ with other human beings are almost never jarring.

Complete in five handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a defi nitive collection of the famous detective’s adventures. No home library is complete without it. Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, the magazine in which they were fi rst published, this volume won even more popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Holmes is at the height of his powers in many of his most famous cases, including The Red Circle, The Bruce-Partington Plans, and The Dying Detective and the famous The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Moliere est le nom de scene de Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, un dramaturge francais du XVIIe siecle. Comedien et directeur de troupe surnommee «Troupe de Moliere», il est l’inventeur de la comedie classique. Ses pieces sont jusqu’a present les plus lues du monde. Le present recueil comprend ses chefsd’?uvre «Monsieur de Pourceaugnac» , «L’Ecole du mensonge», «Le Malade imaginaire», et d’autres.

Figure de proue de la litterature francaise du XIXe siecle et pere du roman psychologique, Stendhal est repute pour la vivacite de sa langue et ses recits pittoresques. «Le Rouge et le Noir» est son roman remarquable inspire du reel. C’est toute une encyclopedie de la vie en France au XIXe siecle. L’auteur raconte la vie de Julien Sorel, fi ls d’un charpentier, qui cherche a reussir a tout prix. Il aspire a la gloire et a la renommee, aux succes et aux honneurs en meprisant les obstacles qui se dressent sur son chemin.

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.

Celebre romancier francais, Gustave Flaubert est considere a bon droit comme une des figures de proue de la litterature europeenne du XIXe siecle. Son oeuvre se distingue par la maitrise du style, la vivacite de la langue et les sujets qui n’ont rien perdu de leur actualite. «Madame Bovary» est un roman phare de Flaubert. L’heroine reve d’un «mariage ideal», mais ses illusions se brisent contre la dure realite, son «prince charmant» n’etant qu’un fastidieux medecin provincial. Emma Bovary etouffe dans son couple mal assorti et decide de trouver son bonheur dans des relations extra-conjugales.

The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism and a criticism of ambition; however, much of its status as a classic has been conferred by admirers of its ambitious protagonist.

Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. The story of his tortured wanderings through the centuries is pieced together through those who have been implored by Melmoth to take over his pact with the devil. Influenced by the Gothic romances of the late 18th century, Maturin’s diabolic tale raised the genre to a new and macabre pitch.

‘Call me Ishmael’. So begins Herman Melville’s masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick, he fi nds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good and evil. More than just a novel of adventure, more than an paean to whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting social commentary, populated by some of the most enduring characters in literature.

Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-World War I England. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. Created from two short stories, Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street and the unfinished The Prime Minister, the novel addresses Clarissa’s preparations for a party she will host that evening. Mrs. Dalloway is linguistically inventive, but the novel also has an enormous amount to say about its characters. Woolf handles their situations with dignity and respect.

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social relationship with the mill-owner and self-made his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.

Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen’s Gothic parody. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist. The story’s heroine is Catherine Morland, an innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey.

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters – the archvillain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, in Oliver Twist Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Rus-sell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup pro-duces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s witty comedy of manners – one of the popular novels of all time – that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the “most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author’s works,” and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as “irresistible and as nearly fl awless as any fi ction could be.”

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love — and its threatened loss — the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.' The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The premier example of American naturalism, Dreiser's remarkable first novel has deeply influenced such key writers as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Sons and Lovers is a wonderful novel on the complex nature of love in its many forms. We follow the lives of the Morel family who live in a coal mining community in Nottinghamshire at the turn of the twentieth century. Walter and Gertrude’s marriage has problems and Gertrude concentrates her love and hopes on her sons. She becomes a dominating force to them and the life choices they make. The sons suffer with obsession, frustration and indecision about the women in their lives.

In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mildmannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes his secret, inner persona – the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde. This book is about losing control. It's about addiction, about giving in to your darker desires and the struggle that all people go through: wanting to do something and knowing you shouldn't.

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘cousin’ Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.” At its core, 'The Age of Innocence' is story that shows the strength and the orchestrated customs and mores of social upper-class society of the 1870s, but also shows its narrowness, its contradictions, and its inflexibility. Edith Wharton's novel is beautiful and a classic, but it is also timeless because she perfectly captures the emotions and the contradictions that exist in this type of change, this tension as one age dies and another is born.

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. In planning his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "I want to write something new something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.” Working with anxiety and saw he feeling that it was the supreme test, he committed all his imaginative resources to the project. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. James Fenimore Cooper’s historical imagination is profound, his creative use of the gothic landscape is uniquely American, and his infl uence on plot and characterization in American fi ction is pervasive and extensive.

The Moonstone, generally recognized as the first detective novel is not only a work of historical importance but also a work that transcends the genre it created, in the artfulness of its plotting, in its compassionate depiction of servants, and in its enlightened resolution of the theme of the British Empire, its crimes and their consequences. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray”.

The red letter “A” on her dress marks young mother Hester Prynne among her Puritan neighbors, who demand to know who fathered her child. Rumors swirl, but the shunned and shamed Hester keeps her secret for years, until a guilt-ridden confession reveals the truth, with unexpected consequences. Set in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, Hawthorne’s masterwork was originally subtitled “a romance,” though its themes include the limits of law, the power of religion, and the nature of sin.

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Ulysses is a snapshot of one day’s life. Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. It is funny, sorrowful, and even suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language. Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens? In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything.

Written in 1848, Vanity Fair is an excellent satire of English society in the early 19th Century. Thackeray states several times that it is a novel "without a hero", and at a couple of points tries to claim that Amelia, a good person but who inevitably comes across as rather wishy-washy, is the heroine. Thackeray apparently saw people as "abominably selfish and foolish", and this negative view comes across loud and clear with his use of vicious vocabulary, and his unremittingly dark portrayal of human nature. The author's voice is continually present, and his wry observations do contribute to making the novel vastly entertaining. They were also intended to make it instructive to his readers.

White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang’s life can prepare him for the cruel owner who turns him into a vicious killer. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master?

The novel tells of the relationships of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, who live in a Midland colliery town in the years before the First World War. Ursula falls in love with Birkin (a thinly disguised portrait of Lawrence himself) and Gudrun has an intense but tragic affair with Gerald, the son of a local colliery owner.

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen’s most flawless work.

Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young widow who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behavior becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shocking details of her past. Told with great immediacy, combined with wit and irony, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerfully involving read.

Complete in five handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a defi nitive collection of the famous detective’s adventures. No home library is complete without it. Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, the magazine in which they were fi rst published, this volume won even more popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Holmes is at the height of his powers in many of his most famous cases, including The Red-Headed League, The Speckled Band, and The Blue Carbuncle and the famous A Study in Scarlet.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a 1916 novel and cornerstone of literary modernism by Irish author James Joyce. The story follows Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s fictional alter-ego, and charts his path to personal and artistic maturity through his stream of consciousness. This is a non-linear narrative style typical of modernist prose in which a character’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions are portrayed in a continuous flow and often disrupt the linear narrative of events and dialogue in the story.

Thomas Mann – legendarer deutscher Schriftsteller, Essayist, Meister des epischen Romans, Literatur-Nobelpreistrager 1929. „Der Zauberberg“ ist ein Roman, der virtuos die Welt in einer Tuberkulose-Heilstatte in den Schweizer Alpen schildert. Seine Bewohner sind genotigt, sich hier jahrelang aufzuhalten. Der Kontakt zur Au?enwelt erfolgt nur uber seltene Briefe und Telegramme. Hier zieht sich die Zeit unmerklich hin, Leben und Tod verlieren ihren Sinn, die kleinsten Nuancen der zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen erlangen dagegen eine schmerzhafte Scharfe und Bedeutung.

Miguel de Cervantes, escritor espanol de fama universal, es celebre en primer lugar por su novela “El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha”, una de las obras mas portentosas de la literatura mundial. Esta novela, traducida a todos los idiomas europeos, hasta la fecha es una de las narrativas que mas se leen en el orbe. En 2002 fue calificada como la mejor novela de las letras mundiales. La obra cuenta las aventuras de un loco hidalgo que adopto el nombre de Don Quijote y de su escudero simplon Sancho Panza, quien de vez en cuando pretende, con timidez e infructuosamente, bajar a su imaginario senor desde los cielos de la alienacion a la tierra de pecado. Una satira muy honda de los tiempos de Cervantes que no pierde su actualidad hasta el dia de hoy.

Miguel de Cervantes, escritor espanol de fama universal, es celebre en primer lugar por su novela “El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha”, una de las obras mas portentosas de la literatura mundial. Esta novela, traducida a todos los idiomas europeos, hasta la fecha es una de las narrativas que mas se leen en el orbe. En 2002 fue cali?cada como la mejor novela de las letras mundiales. La obra cuenta las aventuras de un loco hidalgo que adopto el nombre de Don Quijote y de su escudero simplon Sancho Panza, quien de vez en cuando pretende, con timidez e infructuosamente, bajar a su imaginario senor desde los cielos de la alienacion a la tierra de pecado. Una satira muy honda de los tiempos de Cervantes que no pierde su actualidad hasta el dia de hoy.

The name Edgar Allan Poe conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe’s writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death. Poe’s stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe’s characters are instantly recognizable – even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations. This collection contains eleven of Poe’s best stories. They are “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Premature Burial,” “Ligeia,” “The Black Cat,” “The Oval Portrait,” “Berenice,” “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” and “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether.”

The name Edgar Allan Poe conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe's writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death. Poe's stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe's characters are instantly recognizable – even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations. This collection contains eleven of Poe's best stories. They are "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Premature Burial," "Ligeia," "The Black Cat," "The Oval Portrait," "Berenice," "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," and "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether."

The name Edgar Allan Poe conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe's writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death. Poe's stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe's characters are instantly recognizable – even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations. This collection contains eleven of Poe's best stories. They are "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Premature Burial," "Ligeia," "The Black Cat," "The Oval Portrait," "Berenice," "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," and "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether."

The name Edgar Allan Poe conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe's writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death. Poe's stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe's characters are instantly recognizable – even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations. This collection contains eleven of Poe's best stories. They are "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Premature Burial," "Ligeia," "The Black Cat," "The Oval Portrait," "Berenice," "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," and "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether."

The name Edgar Allan Poe conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe's writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death. Poe's stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe's characters are instantly recognizable – even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations. This collection contains eleven of Poe's best stories. They are "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Premature Burial," "Ligeia," "The Black Cat," "The Oval Portrait," "Berenice," "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," and "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether."

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. “In Morocco” is a travelogue about Edith’s journey to Morocco in the final days of the World War I. It colorfully describes her month-long path through the cities and deserts of the country, and all the places she visited - ruins, mosques, palaces, markets, and harems.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. “The Taming of the Shrew” is a stellar comedy that tells the tale of Petruchio, a fortune seeker who decides to marry Katherina, a strong-willed and even stubborn young woman. Petruchio then tries to tame her temperament in a hilarious style that only Shakespeare can create.

Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. “When the Sleeper Wakes” is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world.

Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. “Boon” is a work of literary satire. It is best known for its part in Wells's debate on the nature of literature with Henry James, who is caricatured in the book, but here Wells also mocks himself, calling into question and ridiculing a notion he held dear – that of humanity's collective consciousness.

Washington Irving (1783 – 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. “A History of New York” is a chronicle of New York’s fifty years under Dutch rule in the 1600s that plays fast and loose with the facts, to uproarious effect. It was published by Washington Irving under the pen name Diedrich Knickerbocker.

Washington Irving (1783 – 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon” is a collection of essays and short stories. Stories range from the maudlin (such as "The Wife" and "The Widow and Her Son") to the picaresque ("Little Britain") and the comical ("The Mutability of Literature").

Washington Irving (1783 – 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. “Tales of a Traveller” is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Irving while he was living in Europe. These stories are a delightful medley of humorous and tragic elements.

Washington Irving (1783 – 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. “Bracebridge Hall” is a location-based series of character sketches with a number of individual plots. The tales center on an English manor, its inhabitants, and the tales they tell.

Washington Irving (1783 – 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. “Tales of the Alhambra” is a collection of essays, sketches and stories. The Alhambra is a palace located in Granada, in the south of Spain. The book consists of a collection of enchanting Spanish and Moorish legends, folktales, and myths about the palace and its surroundings, along with some more traditional travel narratives and observational essays about the country and its customs.

Washington Irving (1783 – 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. “Astoria” is a history book which was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's expedition to Oregon in 1810–1812. Although Washington Irving never traveled to Oregon Country, he wrote one of the most widely read and influential narratives of the region. This book introduced more readers to the Pacific Northwest than any single book up to that time.

Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling” is his popular comic novel. It tells the story of Tom Jones, a gallant and irresistible young man. After being betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home and must undergo a variety of trials in his quest to be reunited with his one true love. Filled with mischief and adventure, this book is one of the most clever and witty novels ever written.

Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. “The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams” was the first published full-length novel of the author, and indeed among the first novels in the English language. It is a story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams.

Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. “Amelia” is a sentimental novel of a young couple's struggles against adversity. It tells a story of Amelia and Captain William Booth after they are married. The novel contains many allusions to classical literature and focuses on the theme of marriage and feminine intelligence.

Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. “Amelia” is a sentimental novel of a young couple's struggles against adversity. It tells a story of Amelia and Captain William Booth after they are married. The novel contains many allusions to classical literature and focuses on the theme of marriage and feminine intelligence.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman” is a novel which describes the life of a young aristocrat, dandy and habitue of high society saloons and gambling houses. The novel, especially the figure of the main character, was conceived by the author, to show how people, internally independent, able to avoid the bad influences of the world.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “Eugene Aram” is a melodramatic novel, which depicts the events leading up to the execution of Eugene Aram for murdering his business partner. When the novel appeared in 1832, it drew mixed reactions: critics condemned it vehemently for romanticizing the life of a well-known convicted murderer, while the reading public eagerly snatched up copies of the novel.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “The Last Days of Pompeii” is a novel inspired by the painting by the Russian painter Karl Briullov. It describes the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The novel uses its characters to contrast the decadent culture of 1st-century Rome with both older cultures and coming trends.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “The Pilgrims of the Rhine” is a story of a young and terribly sick woman Gertrude, who goes to her last journey along the Rhine. This story is full of German tales and legends, which her beloved Trevylyan tells Gertrude in order to relieve her voyage

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “Zanoni” is a story of love and occult aspiration, which took place during the French Revolution. It is a remarkable novel about immortal magician, Zanoni, who cannot fall in love without losing his power of immortality; but he does fall in love with a mortal woman, Viola Pisani, a promising young opera singer from Naples.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “The Caxtons: A Family Picture” is a Victorian novel about a life of an aristocratic family. The novel is mainly concerned with domestic life, but it also includes a lengthy disquisition on colonisation and emigration, its value to British society and its role in extending civilization.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “The Caxtons: A Family Picture” is a Victorian novel about a life of an aristocratic family. The novel is mainly concerned with domestic life, but it also includes a lengthy disquisition on colonisation and emigration, its value to British society and its role in extending civilization.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “The Coming Race” is an early science fiction novel about a superior race living on the Earth. It offers a fascinating vision of a shadowy underworld populated by strange and beautiful creatures. These beings, known as Vril-ya, live underground, but are planning soon to claim the surface of the earth as their own -- destroying humankind in the process.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “Kenelm Chillingly” is one of Bulwer’s most popular novels of English life. Kenelm is the long-desired heir of an old family, who leaves home in search of adventures as an unknown pedestrian with a few pounds in his pocket, but he does not expect, that adventures will change him cardinally.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “Kenelm Chillingly” is one of Bulwer’s most popular novels of English life. Kenelm is the long-desired heir of an old family, who leaves home in search of adventures as an unknown pedestrian with a few pounds in his pocket, but he does not expect, that adventures will change him cardinally.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “The Parisians” is an incredible mystery novel situated in Paris.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “The Parisians” is an incredible mystery novel situated in Paris.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “A Strange Story” is a mystery novel, which is told from the perspective of Dr. Allan Fenwicke, a rational materialist. He publically debunks the spiritualist beliefs of his fellow physician Dr. Lloyd, and thereby hastens his colleague's demise. Soon after, the Mysterious enters Dr. Fenwicke's logical life in the form of the lovely and dreamy Lillian and the wickedly amoral Mr. Margrave. It is a great and epic story that is full of fantasy and romance.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “A Strange Story” is a mystery novel, which is told from the perspective of Dr. Allan Fenwicke, a rational materialist. He publically debunks the spiritualist beliefs of his fellow physician Dr. Lloyd, and thereby hastens his colleague's demise. Soon after, the Mysterious enters Dr. Fenwicke's logical life in the form of the lovely and dreamy Lillian and the wickedly amoral Mr. Margrave. It is a great and epic story that is full of fantasy and romance.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “Ernest Maltravers” is a novel about a young man of wealth and education just returned to England from a German university. Belated by a storm, he seeks shelter in the hut of Darvil, a man of evil character. Darvil has a daughter Alice, young and beautiful, but of undeveloped moral and mental power. Moved by her helplessness, her beauty, and her innocence, Maltravers instantly falls in love.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “Alice, or the Mysteries” is a sequel of author’s novel “Ernest Maltravers”. It tells the story of the young Ernest, his early love Alice Darvil and his underhanded antagonist Lumley Ferrers. It is also known as an occult novel which emphasizes author's famous esoteric interests.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “Leila: or The Siege of Granada” is a historical romance novel which is set in Granada, Spain at the end of the Middle Ages.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “The Last of the Barons” is a historical novel first published in 1843. Its plot revolves around the power struggle between the English King Edward IV and his powerful minister Earl of Warwick, known as "Warwick the kingmaker.” The novel also explores the themes of romance and science in the Middle Ages.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “The Last of the Barons” is a historical novel first published in 1843. Its plot revolves around the power struggle between the English King Edward IV and his powerful minister Earl of Warwick, known as "Warwick the kingmaker.” The novel also explores the themes of romance and science in the Middle Ages.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. “Pausanias, the Spartan” is his unfinished historical novel about a life of Pausanias, the Agiad King of Sparta.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was an American abolitionist and a writer. She is best known for her novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. It featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was an American abolitionist and a writer. She is best known for her novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. After its publication, the novel brought an enormous attention to the depravity of slavery. Many people, however, questioned the basis of truth of the novel. Southerners accused Stowe of misrepresenting slavery. In order to show that she had neither lied about slavery nor exaggerated the plight of enslaved people, Stowe gathered her research materials and published “A Key to Uncle's Tom Cabin.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was an American abolitionist and a writer. She is best known for her novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. Following its remarkable success, the author made three tours to England and Europe, which inspired the two-volume set, “Sunny Memories in Foreign Lands.” Both volumes are a series of letters, some written on the spot – some after the author's return home – of impressions as they arose, of her most agreeable visits to England, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was an American abolitionist and a writer. She is best known for her novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. Following its remarkable success, the author made three tours to England and Europe, which inspired the two-volume set, “Sunny Memories in Foreign Lands.” Both volumes are a series of letters, some written on the spot – some after the author's return home – of impressions as they arose, of her most agreeable visits to England, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was an American abolitionist and a writer. She is best known for her novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. “The Minister's Wooing” is her third historical novel, a domestic comedy that examines slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America. It is set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was an American abolitionist and a writer. She is best known for her novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. “The Pearl of Orr's Island” is her lesser-known, but still beautiful novel. It is a heartwarming story of a young girl's struggle to belong and fit in. The novel reflects Stowe's awareness of the complexity of small-town society.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She is best known for her novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. “Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories” is a sequel to her novel “Old Town Folks”, featuring some of the same characters. It is a collection of fifteen charming short stories told by Sam Lawson to some young boys of Oldtown. The author here masterfully captures many of the colloquial expressions, superstitions, beliefs, customs and habits of that period.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She is best known for her novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. “My Wife and I” is lesser-known Stowe’s novel, where she emphasized the importance of the marriage decision for men as well as women. The main character is Harry Henderson, the youngest son of a New England minister, who recounts his experiences through childhood, college, and his early career as a journalist.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She is best known for her novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. “Pink and White Tyranny” is a comedy of manners on the institution of marriage in the nineteenth century. The main character, Lillie Ellis, has been spoiled, petted, and flattered since the day she was born. When she tricks the adoring and upright John Seymour into marriage, it is unclear who is the victim and who is the victimizer.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She is best known for her novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. “Woman in Sacred History” is a collection of biographical sketches of women of the Old and New Testaments. The author brings to life the extraordinary women within the context of the customs and expectations of the periods in which they lived.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Can You Forgive Her?” is the first of six novels in another famous series, the Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three strong women: Alice Vavasor, her cousin Glencora Palliser, and her aunt Arabella Greenow.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Can You Forgive Her?” is the first of six novels in another famous series, the Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three strong women: Alice Vavasor, her cousin Glencora Palliser, and her aunt Arabella Greenow.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Phineas Finn” is the second of six novels in another famous series, “The Palliser Novels,” also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented but naive doctor's son from Ireland.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Phineas Finn” is the second of six novels in another famous series, “The Palliser Novels,” also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented but naive doctor's son from Ireland.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Phineas Redux” is the fourth of six novels in another famous series, “The Palliser Novels,” also known as the Parliamentary Novels. After the death of his Irish wife, Phineas Finn returns to London and to the House of Commons.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Phineas Redux” is the fourth of six novels in another famous series, “The Palliser Novels,” also known as the Parliamentary Novels. After the death of his Irish wife, Phineas Finn returns to London and to the House of Commons.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The Prime Minister” is the fifth of six novels in another famous series, “The Palliser Novels,” also known as the Parliamentary Novels. It is a wonderfully subtle portrait of a marriage, political expediency, and misplaced love.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The Prime Minister” is the fifth of six novels in another famous series, “The Palliser Novels,” also known as the Parliamentary Novels. It is a wonderfully subtle portrait of a marriage, political expediency, and misplaced love.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Orley Farm” is a novel which was first published by the London publisher Chapman and Hall from March 1861 to October 1862. This story deals with the imperfect workings of the legal system in the trial and acquittal of Lady Mason.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Orley Farm” is a novel which was first published by the London publisher Chapman and Hall from March 1861 to October 1862. This story deals with the imperfect workings of the legal system in the trial and acquittal of Lady Mason.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. In "Miss Mackenzie" Trollope made a deliberate attempt to prove that a novel may be produced without any love. He depicts Margaret Mackenzie, overwhelmed with money troubles, as she tries to assess the worth and motives of four very different suitors.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The Belton Estate” is a novel about a young woman who has accepted one of two suitors, then discovered that he was unworthy of her love. First published in 1865, the novel is concerned with the plight of unmarried, impecunious women in the 19th century.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The Claverings” is a novel about a young man starting out in life, who must find himself a profession and a wife; and of a young woman who made a marriage of convenience and must abide the consequences. Since its first appearance in 1867, this novel has been acclaimed as one of Trollope's most successful protrayals of mid-Victorian life.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The Claverings” is a novel about a young man starting out in life, who must find himself a profession and a wife; and of a young woman who made a marriage of convenience and must abide the consequences. Since its first appearance in 1867, this novel has been acclaimed as one of Trollope's most successful protrayals of mid-Victorian life.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire“Nina Balatka” is a romance about a Christian girl from Prague who falls in love with a Jewish merchant. It is one of the few novels published anonymously by Trollope, who was to disguise his style.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The Vicar of Bullhampton” is a novel which is made up of three intertwining subplots: the courtship of a young woman by two suitors; a feud between the titular Broad church vicar and a Low church nobleman; and the vicar's attempt to rehabilitate a young woman who has gone astray.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The Vicar of Bullhampton” is a novel which is made up of three intertwining subplots: the courtship of a young woman by two suitors; a feud between the titular Broad church vicar and a Low church nobleman; and the vicar's attempt to rehabilitate a young woman who has gone astray.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Ralph the Heir” is one of Anthony Trollope's lesser-known novels, yet this compelling tale of property, illegitimacy and inheritance truly boasts of this great writer's flair for dramatic story-telling.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Ralph the Heir” is one of Anthony Trollope's lesser-known novels, yet this compelling tale of property, illegitimacy and inheritance truly boasts of this great writer's flair for dramatic story-telling.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Harry Heathcote of Gangoil” is Trollope's only Australian novel, where Harry Heathcote deals with the problems facing a young sheepfarmer, or 'squatter' in outback Australia.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Lady Anna” is a novel, written in 1871 and first published in book form in 1874. The protagonist is a young woman who, through an extraordinary set of circumstances, has fallen in love with and become engaged to a tailor. The novel describes her attempts to resolve the conflict between her duty to her social class and her duty to the man she loves.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Is He Popenjoy?” is a comic novel, which tells a story of the Marquis of Brotherton who returns to England from Italy with an Italian wife and small child who he claims as his heir, Lord Popenjoy. The plot explores, among other things the question of legitimacy and also that of the power struggles between husband and wife – a topic frequently visited by Trollope.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “John Caldigate” is a story of young man who sets sail for Australia to make his fortune in the goldfields of New South Wales. He meets the adventuress Euphemia Smith, widow of a drunken actor and herself a sometime music-hall entertainer, and they conduct an indiscreet onboard romance.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “John Caldigate” is a story of young man who sets sail for Australia to make his fortune in the goldfields of New South Wales. He meets the adventuress Euphemia Smith, widow of a drunken actor and herself a sometime music-hall entertainer, and they conduct an indiscreet onboard romance.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “An Eye for an Eye” is one of fi ve novels which Trollope set mainly in Ireland although much of the story takes place at Scroope Manor in Dorsetshire. Fred Neville, a young officer in the Hussars, is a heir to an earldom, but before taking up his responsibilities he decides to enjoy a year of adventure in Ireland where his regiment is posted.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire.“Cousin Henry” is a novel that deals with the trouble arising from the indecision of a squire in choosing an heir to his estate. It is the most unusual and intriguing of Trollope’s shorter novels.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The Fixed Period” is a satirical dystopian novel. Set in the 1980s, The Fixed Period describes an imaginary, antipodean ex-colony governed by a President who views himself as a benefactor of the human race.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Kept in the Dark” is one of author’s final works, a subtle study of a jealousy and indignation. Before her marriage to Western, Cecilia Holt was engaged to the spiteful, conceited Sir Francis Geraldine. As she is unable to find the right moment to confide this to her husband, Western discovers the fact from Geraldine himself, and in a fit of wounded pride deserts his young wife, refusing to hear the truth from her lips.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Ayala’s Angel” is a novel that focuses on two orphaned sisters, Lucy and Ayala Dormer, Ayala especially, and their trials, with their relatives. It was written as a stand-alone novel rather than as part of a series, though several of the minor characters appear in other novels by Trollope.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Ayala’s Angel” is a novel that focuses on two orphaned sisters, Lucy and Ayala Dormer, Ayala especially, and their trials, with their relatives. It was written as a stand-alone novel rather than as part of a series, though several of the minor characters appear in other novels by Trollope.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “Ayala’s Angel” is a novel that focuses on two orphaned sisters, Lucy and Ayala Dormer, Ayala especially, and their trials, with their relatives. It was written as a stand-alone novel rather than as part of a series, though several of the minor characters appear in other novels by Trollope.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The American Senator” is a novel written in 1875. It is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting scenes. The novel is largely set in and near the town of Dillsborough, in the fictional county of Rufford.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The Eustace Diamonds” is the third of six novels in another famous series, “The Palliser Novels,” also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The plot of the novel centres on the fabulous necklace owned by the Eustace family, which the beautiful but ruthless opportunist Lizzie, claims as her own after she marries Sir Florian Eustace for his money and becomes his widow after only a few months.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The Eustace Diamonds” is the third of six novels in another famous series, “The Palliser Novels,” also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The plot of the novel centres on the fabulous necklace owned by the Eustace family, which the beautiful but ruthless opportunist Lizzie, claims as her own after she marries Sir Florian Eustace for his money and becomes his widow after only a few months.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The Duke’s Children” is the sixth and final novel in another famous series, “The Palliser Novels,” also known as the Parliamentary Novels. Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires.

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The Duke’s Children” is the sixth and final novel in another famous series, “The Palliser Novels,” also known as the Parliamentary Novels. Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires.

The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. The main character Harmachis is charged by the Priesthood to overthrow the supposed impostor Cleopatra, drive out the Romans, and restore Egypt to its golden era. As is the case with the majority of Haggard’s works, the story draws heavily upon adventure and exotic concepts. The story, told from the point of view of the Egyptian priest Harmachis, is recounted in biblical language, being in the form of papyrus scrolls found in a tomb.

Franz Kafka – einer der bekanntesten deutschen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts, dessen Werke in der Weltliteratur bis heute einmalig bleiben. Der Roman „Der Prozess“ ist einer der bekanntesten Romane der Weltliteratur. Er zeigt dem Leser die einmalige Welt des Autors – ein durch seine Einmaligkeit bezauberndes All, auch die tiefe Gefuhlswelt seiner Helden.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This was the fi rst Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had “died” in The Final Problem. Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901-1902 (although setting it before Holmes’ death) Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character. The fi rst story is set in 1894 and has Holmes returning in London and explaining the period from 1891-94, a period called “The Great Hiatus” by Sherlockian enthusiasts. Also of note is Watson’s statement in the last story of the cycle that Holmes has retired, and forbids him to publish any more stories.

Ecrivain, nouvelliste et critique, Marcel Proust est le principal representant du modernisme dans la litterature francaise. Sa suite romanesque «A la recherche du temps perdu» en sept volumes lui a valu une reputation internationale. C’est une des oeuvres majeures de la litterature mondiale du XXe siecle. Ce livre contient le premier tome de l’epopee, «Du cote de chez Swann». Raffine et deroutant, le monde de la prose proustienne recree un voyage passionnant et diversifie a merveille de l’homme dans les profondeurs de son univers intime. «Du cote de chez Swann» est l’entree dans le monde ou le passe et le present tissent un motif complique dont les traces se retrouvent chez divers «architectes» de la litterature mondiale.

Jorge Luis Borges es un legendario prosista, poeta y publicista argentino. La prosa de Borges se destaca ante todo por sus fantasias laconicas, refl exiones sobre problemas fi losofi cas de fondo que adoptan la forma de historias de aventuras o detectivescas. De Ficciones forman parte narraciones tan famosas como «Tres versiones de Judas», «La biblioteca de Babel », «Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote», «Funes el memorioso» y otras.

Lope de Vega fue uno de los poetas y dramaturgos mas importantes del Siglo de Oro espanol y, por la extension de su obra, uno de los autores mas prolificos de la literatura universal. Fuenteovejuna es una obra de contenido social y reivindicativo. Presenta la rebelion del pueblo, unido ante la tirania y la injusticia expuestas crudamente a finales del siglo XV principios del XVI; la obra esta escrita en 1610 y se puede considerar de una gran valentia y de caracter pedagogico.

Homme de lettres remarquable du XVIIIe siecle, Antoine Francois Prevost est un des inventeurs du «roman psychologique». «L’Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut» est un des premiers romans psychologiques dans l’histoire de la litterature. L’action se passe en France a l’epoque de la Regence. C’est le recit d’un jeune gentilhomme nomme des Grieux. Au retour du seminaire, il rencontre une belle inconnue qui vient d’arriver dans la ville. C’est Manon Lescaut, envoyee dans un couvent par ses parents. C’est un coup de foudre: des Grieux tombe follement amoureux d’elle et persuade la jeune fi lle de s’enfuir avec lui...

Fondateur de la science-fiction, Jules Verne est un des ecrivains francais du XIXe siecle les plus populaires et les plus aimes. «Voyage au centre de la Terre» est un brillant recit des aventures d’Otto Lidenbrock, professeur de mineralogie, et de son neveu qui se rendent en Islande pour plonger dans le cratere d’un volcan sur les traces du grand voyageur Arne Saknussemm menant jusqu’au centre de la Terre.

Complete in five handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a defi nitive collection of the famous detective’s adventures. No home library is complete without it. Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, the magazine in which they were fi rst published, this volume won even more popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Holmes is at the height of his powers in many of his most famous cases, including The Red-Headed League, The Speckled Band, and The Blue Carbuncle and the famous A Study in Scarlet.

Alfred de Musset est un poete et dramaturge francais du XIXe siecle qui a sa place au Pantheon des romantiques. «La Confession d’un enfant du siecle» est une de ses ?uvres les plus connues; il y parle des maux de sa generation, blasee et melancolique. Ce sont ces deux vices qui empechent le heros principal de gouter au bonheur avec l’elue de son cour.

In "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman sings nature and his symbiosis with America, he sings the universe and his awareness of it all, but above all he sings the people and their quest for individuality and immortality.

Ernst Theodor Amadeus (E. T. A.) Hoffmann – beruhmter deutscher Schriftsteller, in dessen Werken gehen die Geisterwelt, Kriminalgeschichten und ungewohnliche Abenteuer unvermittelt ineinander uber. „Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr“ ist der letzte, am meisten autobiographische Roman des gro?en deutschen Schriftstellers. Der ungewohnliche, mehrschichtige Roman beinhaltet die Notizen des gelehrten Katers, Pragmatikers und Epikureers Murr, zudem anscheinend zufallig in das Manuskript gelangte Blatter aus der Biographie des „wunderlichen Kapellmeisters“ Kreisler, eines unverbesserlichen Romantikers und des Alter ego von Hoffmann selbst.

Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In the wake of his disgrace he travels to the exotic region of Patusan, and as the agent at this remote trading post comes to be revered as 'Tuan Jim.' Here he finds a measure of serenity and respect within himself. However, when a gang of thieves arrives on the island, the memory of his earlier disgrace comes again to the fore, and his relationship with the people of the island is jeopardized.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. First person narration by Thomas Wingfi eld, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered, a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery as he searches for the Spanish villian who killed Thomas’ mother. He is relating the story 70 years after it opens in 1578. Thomas’ revenge quest takes him to Mexico becoming involved with Cortez as Thomas sides with the Aztecs.

Victor Hugo est un ecrivain romantique francais mondialement celebre. L’influence de son oeuvre, creee au XIXe siecle, sur l’evolution de la litterature est indeniable. Maintes fois adapte au cinema, son roman Notre-Dame de Paris» est une de ses oeuvres les plus connues et encensees. Le lecteur suit les meandres d’un amour tragique de trois hommes pour une femme. Cependant c’est Notre-Dame qui est le personnage principal, cette cathedrale qui recele une multitude de secrets, qui reunit des personnes les plus opposees et decide de leur sort.

Ernst Theodor Amadeus (E. T. A.) Hoffmann – beruhmter deutscher Schriftsteller, in dessen Werken gehen die Geisterwelt, Kriminalgeschichten und ungewohnliche Abenteuer unvermittelt ineinander uber. In diesen Sammelband wurden seine bekanntesten Werke aufgenommen: „Ritter Gluck“, „Der goldene Topf“, „Der Sandmann“ und andere. Den Leser erwarten spannende Sujets, pragnante Gestalten, die sich einem tief einpragen.

Mark Twain’s brilliant 19th-century novel has long been recognized as one of the finest examples of American literature. It brings back the irrepressible and free-spirited Huck, first introduced in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and puts him center stage. Twain’s classic tale follows Huck and the runaway slave Jim on an exciting journey down the Mississippi.

Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial and immoral circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man she admires. Only an elderly bachelor, Mr Longdon, is immune to this world of greed and scheming, and determines to rescue Nanda from its corrupting influences out of loyalty to the deep love he once felt for her grandmother.

Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most brillilant and controversial social and literary ?gures of all time. Wilde’s prison writings include his most celebrated essay "De Profundis", written to Lord Alfred Douglas, and his legendary epic poem "The Ballad Of Reading Gaol".

Franz Kafka – einer der bekanntesten deutschen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts, dessen Werke in der Weltliteratur bis heute einmalig bleiben. „Das Schloss“ ist ein nicht vollendeter Roman von Franz Kafka, der nach seinem Tode in Munchen veroffentlicht wurde. Er erzahlt die Geschichte einer Person K., die in ein verschneites Dorf kommt, das vom Schloss verwaltet wird. Der Held der Geschichte geht zum Schloss, um eine Anstellung als Landvermesser zu bekommen. Doch da tauchen Probleme auf – ein kompliziertes Gerat und auch die stumpfsinnige und nutzlose Burokratie hindern ihn daran, sich dem geheimnisvollen Schloss auch nur zu nahern.

O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. The Four Million is the second collection of short stories by O. Henry that was published in 1906. The title refers to the population of New York City at that time and is where all the stories are based.

O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. His wit, characterization and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. The collected tales of bunco artists and fourflushers. Full of those delightful Archie Bunkeresque mis-speaks like the 'casting of Persians'. These characters are all charmingly stoic in their winsome and loose some attitudes.

The House by the Churchyard is a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu published in 1863 that combines elements of the mystery novel and the historical novel. Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral. This discovery relates to murders, both recent and historical whose repercussions disrupt the complacent pace of village affairs and change the lives of many of its notable characters forever. Charm and chilling darkness abound in equal measure in one of the greatest novels of a Victorian master of mystery.

Martin Chuzzlewit, or “the American one”, as fans of Dickens often refer to it, is “The Inimitable”’s sixth novel, written and published in twenty monthly parts between January 1843 to July 1844, when its author was between 30 and 32. It is a typical Dickensian romp of a ride, with thrills, passion, savage mockery, suspense - and ?ashes of absurd humour amidst the despair. The novel lunges between hyperbole and whimsy, switching at a moment’s notice, and it contains some of Dickens’s most memorable characters. There is the seedy but charming schemer Montague Tigg (Tigg Montague), and his associate Chevy Slyme, the eccentrically fey and colourfully attired barber and bird-fancier Poll Sweedlepipe, the staunch ally Mark Tapley, the undertaker Mr Mould, the buxom goodhearted pub landlady Mrs Lupin, the poor addled old clerk Chuffey ... or is he really so confused?

Complete in five handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a definitive collection of the famous detective's adventures. No home library is complete without it. Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, the magazine in which they were first published, this volume won even more popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Holmes is at the height of his powers in many of his most famous cases, including The Yellow face, The Final Problem, The Crooked man and the famous The Sign Of the Four

The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground was James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, published in 1821. This was the earliest United States novel to win wide and permanent fame and may be said to have begun the type of romance which dominated U.S. fiction for 30 years. The action takes place during the American Revolution. Garvey Birch is a modest American who pretends to be a regular peddler, but in fact collecting military information for the Continental Army in territory controlled by British army.

The Woodlanders, with its thematic portrayal of the role of social class, gender, and evolutionary survival, as well as its insights into the capacities and limitations of language, exhibits Hardy’s acute awareness of his era’s most troubling dilemmas.

Conceived as a fairly serious guide to amateur boating on the Thames in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome’s best-known novel ended up as a hilarious account of the misadventures of three friends and a dog as they attempt to relax and enjoy themselves amid unreliable weather forecasts, imaginary illnesses, repellent cooking, and an unopenable can of pineapple chunks. Jerome’s heroes proved so popular that he brought them back for an equally picaresque bicycle tour of Germany, an adventure recorded in Three Men on the Bummel.

Guy de Maupassant est le maitre de la nouvelle litterature francaise du XIXe siecle, repute pour ses nouvelles a chute. Il a publie une vingtaine de recueils de morceaux de prose en neuf ans, avec un penchant pour le naturalisme. Le roman «Une Vie» raconte l’histoire de Jeanne, une jeune ?lle issue de la petite noblesse. Elevee dans un couvent, elle reve d’un bonheur romantique, de merveilles et d’amour, elle voit le monde a travers des lunettes roses et prend le premier venu pour l’homme de sa vie. Cet homme, c’est Julien, un gentilhomme apauvri mais seduisant, qui epouse Jeanne pour s’emparer de sa fortune et recherche des aventures en dehors des liens de mariage. Une fois mariee, la pauvre Jeanne embrasse une vie pleine d’epreuves et de deceptions...

Wives and Daughters is far more than a nostalgic evocation of village life; it offers an ironic critique of mid-Victorian society. 'No nineteenth-century novel contains a more devastating rejection than this of the Victorian male assumption of moral authority', writes Pam Morris in her introduction to this new edition, in which she explores the novel's main themes – the role of women, Darwinism and the concept of Englishness – and its literary and social context.

“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 a Paris, entre autres celles eues avec M. de Norpois ou encore avec son idole litteraire Bergotte. Il va egalement pour la premiere fois au theatre ou il voit enfi n l’actrice qu’il aime tant, la Berma, interpretant Phedre de Racine. On y lit ses deceptions incomprises par les autres vis-a-vis de sa premiere vision theatrale.”

“Le Cote de Guermantes” est le troisieme tome de “A la recherche du temps perdu” de Marcel Proust publie entre 1920 et 1921. Dans son edition originelle, le roman est divise en deux tomes: “Le Cote de Guermantes I”, suivi de “Le Cote de Guermantes II”. Il occupe une place centrale dans le roman, reliant les anciennes lignes de sujet des volumes precedents avec les nouvelles prevues, decrites en detail dans les quatre livres suivants. Le personnage principal du roman a deja traverse le stade de l’adolescence. Il a deja une certaine experience dans les affaires de coeur, et maintenant il est pret a se consacrer entierement a la socialisation a part entiere a l’age adulte.

“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 morale d’une societe lumineuse, centree sur l’image du Baron de Charlus. Mais certains fi ls narratifs s’etendent vers “Sodome et Gomorrhe” et du livre “A l’ombre des jeunes fi lles en fl eurs” est un theme d’amour et les vicissitudes de la relation du heros avec Albertina.

“La Prisonniere” est le cinquieme tome de “A la recherche du temps perdu” de Marcel Proust publiу en 1923 а titre posthume. Le theme principal de ce volume est l’amour possessif et jaloux qu’eprouve le narrateur pour Albertine. La loi surveille, la soupconne de liaisons homosexuelles, essaie de retenir chez lui. A la derniere page du roman, la domestique Francoise apprend au narrateur qu’Albertine est partie sans prevenir. Cet evenement inattendu marque le passage de “La Prisonniere” a “Albertine disparue”.

“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 revu et remanie par Proust avant sa mort. Il presente la fin de l’episode d’Albertine: sa fuite, sa mort, le chagrin, puis l’oubli. Le huis-clos de “La Prisonniere” s’acheve, non sur l’apaisement, mais sur une multiplication des regrets et des enquetes posthumes. Un long passage conduit Marcel a Venise, depuis toujours cite de ses desirs, maintenant univers thematique dense ou nous retrouvons sa mere, Mme de Villeparisis et M. de Norpois. Il s’y livre a la fois a l’eblouissement esthetique et a de nouvelles poursuites amoureuses.

“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 Tansonville. Une lecture d’un passage inedit du journal des Goncourt entraine le narrateur dans des reflexions sur l’art et la litterature, d’ou il conclut qu’en se demandant “si tous les gens que nous regrettons de ne pas avoir connus parce que Balzac les peignait dans ses livres [...] ne m’eussent pas paru d’insignifiantes personnes, soit par une infirmite de ma nature, soit qu’elles ne dussent leur prestige qu’a une magie illusoire de la litterature”.

Colonel Jack is one of Daniel Defoe’s most entertaining, revealing, and complex works. It is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his brothers are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland. Jack’s story is one of dramatic turns of fortune that ultimately lead to a life of law-abiding prosperity as a plantation owner.

A subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen’s most profound works. Taken from the poverty of her parents’ home, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with only her cousin Edmund as an ally. When Fanny’s uncle is absent in Antigua, Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive in the neighbourhood, bringing with them London glamour and a reckless taste for flirtation. As her female cousins vie for Henry’s attention, and even Edmund falls for Mary’s dazzling charms, only Fanny remains doubtful about the Crawfords’ influence and finds herself more isolated than ever.

The Professor was published only after Charlotte Brontes death; today it gives us a fascinating insight into the fi rst stirrings of her supreme creative imagination. William Crimsworth reveals his attraction to the dominating directress of the girls’ school where he teaches, played out in the school’s “secret garden”. Balanced against this is his more temperate relationship with one of his pupils, Frances Henri, in which mastery and submission interplay.

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Bronte vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on “something real and unromantic as Monday morning.” Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention. A work that combines social commentary with the more private preoccupations of Jane Eyre, Shirley demonstrates the full range of Bronte’s literary talent.

Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of this book, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy’s struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Bronte’s strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.

Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience. At age 19 Anne Bronte left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Bronte depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can aff ect a young woman. Agnes was the daughter of a minister whose family was in fi nancial problems. She experiences the diff iculty of reining in spoiled children and how wealth can corrupt morals.

A sequel to the famous novel King Solomon’s Mines is based on author’s own experience in the African continent. Quatermain has lost his only son and longs to get back into the wilderness. Having persuaded Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good, and the Zulu chief Umbopa to accompany him, they set out from the coast of east Africa, this time in search of a white race reputed to live north of Mount Kenya. They survive fi erce encounters with Masai warriors, undergo a terrifying subterranean journey, and discover a lost civilization before being caught up in a passionate lovetriangle that engulfs the country in a ferocious civil war.

Maiwa’s Revenge, or The War of the Little Hand is a short novel by English writer H. Rider Haggard about the hunter Allan Quartermain. The story involves Quartermain going on a hunting expedition, then taking part in an attack on a native kraal to rescue a captured English hunter, and avenge Maiwa, an African princess whose baby has been killed.

The youthful Allan Quatermain is bound for strange adventures, in the company of the ill-fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission, on an embassy to the Zulu despot, Dingaan. Yet he is bound, too, for one of the deepest romances of his life – for in Marie he tells of his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Marie Marais.

The novel H. Rider Haggard’s celebrated Allan Quatermain series, this book tells more stories of Quartermain’s time in South Africa – presenting his observations about two dueling witch doctors, his father’s death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella.

In this sequel to Marie, Allan Quatermain helps his Zulu friend Saduko in a crazy battle to win 100 cattle for the dowry of his love Mameena. However, the beautiful and mysterious Mameena, known as the “Child of Storm,” seduces Allan and tries to engage him in marriage. This edition also includes Magepa the Buck (1887).

Brother John, who has been living in Africa for many years, gives Allan Quatermain the largest orchid he has ever seen. Later, in England, he has a meeting with Mr. Somers, an orchid collector who is prepaired to finance an expedition to search for the plant. Join Allan as he sets out to find this rare orchid... and finds something more.

While Quartermain visits Lord Randall, two foreigners come asking for Macumazana – that is, asking for Allan Quartermain by the name he used among the Africans. The two visitors are Harut and Marut, priests and doctors of the White Kendah People and they have come to ask Allan Quartermain for his help. The White Kendah people are at war with the Black Kendah people who have an evil spirit for a god. That spirit of the god resides in the largest elephant they have ever seen, an elephant that no man can kill – save Allan Quartermain. Now our intrepid hero must return to Africa and destroy this evil spirit before it kills every one of the White Kendah People.

Finished can be read as a separate story, and at the same time like the third of the trilogy after Marie and Child of Storm. It narrates, through the mouth of Allan Quatermain, the consummation of the vengeance of the wizard Zikali, alias The Opener of Roads, or “The-Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born,” upon the royal Zulu House of which Senzangacona was the founder and Cetewayo, our enemy in the war of 1879, the last representative who ruled as a king. Although, of course, much is added for the purposes of romance, the main facts of history have been adhered to with some faithfulness.

A gripping novel which takes us and the hero, adventurer Allan Quatermain, back in time. It relates several exciting adventures like a lion hunt, wrestling with a crocodile, and a large-scale battle between various armies.

Wanting to learn if he can communicate with deceased the children, adventurer Allan Quatermain seeks a meeting with the feared Zulu witch-doctor Zikali. He tells Allan he must seek out the great white sorceress who rules the Allan to take a message to her. En route, Quatermain encounters emigrant Scotsmen, cannibals, witch doctors, the beautiful Inez, and of course the mysterious She, or Ayesha. She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon’s Mines.

Allan Quatermain is confronted with the legend of the Heu-Heu, a monster who eats humans, while sheltering from a thunderstorm in the Drakensberg mountains. The legend appears to be reality as Quatermain is to find out after arriving in Zululand and being summond by Zikali, a Zulu Sangoma of indeterminate age. Together with his trusted companion, Hans, Quatermain is sent on a mission by Zikali.

Treasure and the occult are vividly blended in this stirring tale of Africa. Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future events.

This novel is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki drug, as he did in previous novels, and he finds himself reliving as Wi, an civilized man living in the barbaric ice age as part of a clan of cavemen. The novel has been noted as a treatment of the topics of eugenics and evolution in literature and culture.

The Pioneers enters of Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town of the American frontier. The heart of the novel is a confl ict over who owns America, and by what concept of right. The competing claims of Native Americans, Tory loyalists, roving hunters, and visionary cultivators are pitted against one another in the area of history, and the magical village of Cooper’s youth becomes the scene in which a nation’s destiny is forged. Just as accessible and enjoyable for today’s modern readers as it would have been when fi rst published well over a century ago, the novel is one of the great works of American literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world.

In 1823, Cooper began writing The Pilot, which he saw as a sea novel that seamen would appreciate for its fidelity and yet one that landsmen could understand. The hero of The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea – modeled on John Paul Jones – leads the American Navy in dangerous raids on the English coast. James Fenimore Cooper's fourth novelhelped start the genre of sea novels.

Joseph Conrad’s first novel Almayer’s Folly is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Conrad established in Almayer’s Folly the themes of betrayal, isolation, and colonialism that he would explore throughout the rest of his life and work.

An Outcast of the Islands was only Conrad’s second novel, but in its theme, in its impressionistic use of scenery, and, and over all, in the enormous richness and power of the writing, it predicts Conrad’s position as a literary figure of the highest rank. Peter Willems, a clerk in Macassar, granted a “second chance” at a remote river trading post, falls ever more hopelessly into traps set by himself and others. A parable of human frailty, with love and death the major players, this is a story of a man unable to understand others and fated never to possess his own soul.

It is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury. Captain Macwhirr has a reputation as a solid, steadfast man, who “having just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day, and no more” cannot fully believe any storm would be a match for his powerful ship. When the barometer and other clues begin to hint at trouble ahead, he is only moderately concerned and unwilling to change course and lose precious time-a decision that may prove more costly than he could ever have imagined.

Portraying a young man’s first sea-voyage to the East in Youth, and the blind old age of Captain Whalley in The End of the Tether, the stories in this volume are united in their theme – the ‘Ages of Man’ – and in their scepticism. Conrad’s vision has infl uenced twentieth-century writers and artists from T. S. Eliot to Jorge Luis Borges and Werner Herzog, and continues to draw critical fire.

The main character of this story, Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London’s Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be “a simple tale” proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London’s fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.

Razumov unwittingly becomes embroiled in a revolutionary conspiracy when he gives refuge to a fellow student who assassinated a public official. Increasingly enmeshed in the radical’s political intrigue, he betrays the anarchist who had placed blind faith in him. The authorities then dispatch Razumov on a mission to spy on the revolutionary’s sister and mother. A fascinating character study, Under Western Eyes hauntingly reveals Razumov’s preoccupation with questions of decency and accountability when confronted by the equally powerful values of human integrity and moral strength.

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo’s Ladies’ Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from the detachment and isolation that have inhibited and influenced his life. Victory is both a tale of rescue and adventure and a perceptive study of a complex relationship and of the power of love.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In Basil’s secret and unconsummated marriage to the linendraper’s sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Wilkie Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world.

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: fl amed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husbandpoisoner. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.

Wilkie Collins’s intriguing story about Lucilla Finch, a blind girl and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better-known novels but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenthcentury realist fi ction, Collins gives one of the best accounts in fi ction of blindness and its implications. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth century realist fi ction, Collins not only takes a blind person as his central character but also explores the idea of blindness and its implications.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The adoptive daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is waiting for a profi table marriage. What hides her past? She lived in a shelter, dragged on a miserable existence and in a moment of desperation she appropriated other people’s documents, another’s life story. But the specter of the past breaks into a real life – a deceived miser requires an answer. Will the Princes have enough courage to turn into Cinderella, sacrifice love and wealth?

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, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband’s past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to fi nd out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must endure an even greater shock: the revelation that her husband has been on trial for poisoning his fi rst wife. Convinced of his innocence, Valeria is prepared to do anything to clear her husband’s name, and in so doing upturns the conventions of polite nineteenth century society.

In this novel William Wilkie Collins explores the powers of telepathy while telling a skilful tale that interweaves suspense with the familiar ingredients of Victorian melodrama. Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first doesn’t seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each other. But when George saves a young woman from drowning, a strong connection seems to develop between them, which seems to be almost supernatural.

Daniel Defoe’s faith-fi lled The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe fi nds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and companion, Friday, he embarks on a harrowing high-seas adventure that takes them to China, over the Russian steppes, and into Siberia. The story is speculated to be partially based on Moscow embassy secretary Adam Brand’s journal detailing the embassy’s journey from Moscow to Peking from 1693 to 1695.

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He wrote many political tracts and often was in trouble with the authorities, including prison time. The third book about Robinson Crousoe is a collection of Daniel Defoe’s essays on moral topics. The name of Crusoe used to spur the public’s interest in this work.

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 and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. Daniel Defoe created a female character-narrator who recounts, from a woman’s point of view, her life and adventures, portraying critically the society in which she lived.

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 her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Mary’s dilemma, and the moving portrayal of her father, the embittered and courageous activist John Barton, Mary Barton (1848) powerfully dramatizes the class divides of the ‘hungry forties’ as personal tragedy.

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: fl amed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husbandpoisoner. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: fl amed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husbandpoisoner. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: fl amed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husbandpoisoner. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.

This is a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 1846 and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Bronte sisters adopted masculine first names. The book was published under the title Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. All three retained the first letter of their first names: Charlotte became Currer Bell, Anne became Acton Bell, and Emily became Ellis Bell.

Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic-fantasy novel by the popular Victorian author Henry Rider Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to his far more popular and well known novel, She. Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey once again embark on a quest to find the mysterious woman known as Ayesha. Knowing that She is no longer in Africa, they go east, eventually reaching a lamasery in the mountains of Tibet.

She is the story of Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey, and their journey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. The journey is triggered by a mysterious package left to Leo by his father, to be opened on his 25th birthday; the package contains an ancient shard of pottery and several documents, suggesting an ancient mystery about the Vincey family. Holly and Leo eventually arrive in eastern Africa where they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen, Ayesha, who reigns as the all-powerful "She" or "She-who-must-be-obeyed".

The beautiful and immortal Ayesha tells her story of power, wisdom, love, and deception, in her own words. Arabian by birth, Ayesha’s natural beauty was the cause in her father’s kingdom of many wars and conflicts between jealous princes and suitors, leading to a rumor that she was cursed. Swearing an oath of celibacy, to serve Isis the Goddess of the Spirit of Nature and turn away from Aphrodite the Goddess of Love, she seeks to protect herself.

Philip Caresfoot is all but promised to marry the local heiress, Maria Lee. They are both to inherit small fortunes in their own right. And thus their marriages to each other would make an ever wealthier household. However, when Hilda, a noblewoman with no wealth of her own, arrives in town to become Maria's companion, Philip begins to fall in love with her. They have an affair when Philip is sent away to Oxford and they marry in secret. When Philip returns to his home, his father inquires about his relationship with Maria Lee. Philip tells him that Maria Lee and himself are engaged. How will he keep all his lies together and still inherit the land and money from his father?

The Witch’s Head is the second novel by H Rider Haggard, which he wrote just prior to King Solomon’s Mines. Zulu magic comes to the British Fenlands, as the severed head of a sorcerer casts a spell from beyond the grave. The story sweeps from England to the South African setting Haggard knew well from his years with Britain’s colonial service.

Jess Croft lives with sister Bessie and old Silas, a farmer raising ostriches on the great Transvaal veldt. He is a reserved and aloof, with a quietness about her brought on by the misfortunes of her young childhood, when she and Bessie arrived motherless from England to South Africa. Then an Englishman, Captain John Niel, arrives to try his hand at the farming life. To his eyes, Bessie is lively and lovely of face and figure – yet Jess is mystery, with a bright and roving mind and splendid, searching eyes… and unwillingly the three of them are drawn together, then torn apart, by the emotions that fl are among them.

Colonel Quaritch is an impoverished nobleman, who is looking for the family jewels of his bride – the “treasure de la Moley”. He moves to the house of his late aunt in the village of Honhem and soon becomes involved in an adventure.

Mr. Meeson’s Will is the story of mean Mr. Meeson, the greedy and wealthy owner of a publishing house. Augusta Smithers is a young writer who enters into an unfair contract with Meeson. In order to make a fresh start she boards a steamer bound for New Zealand only to find her enemy is on the same ship.

Beatrice follows the story of the Welsh title character Beatrice Granger, a teacher, and the affair that takes place with an unhappily married man in the form of barrister Geoffrey Bingham. Trouble awaits, in the form of Bingham’s wife Honoria (who’s only interested in money and social climbing), Owen Davies (one of the richest men in Wales, who is morbidly obsessed with marrying Beatrice), and Elizabeth (Beatrice’s older sister, who will do just about anything to marry Davies herself).

Eric Brighteyes isan epic Viking novel by Henry Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland. Eric Thorgrimursson (nicknamed “Brighteyes” for his most notable trait), strives to win the hand of his beloved, Gudruda the Fair. Her father Asmund, a priest of the old Norse gods, opposes the match, thinking Eric a man without prospects. But deadlier by far are the intrigues of Swanhild, Gudruda’s half-sister and a sorceress who desires Eric for herself. She persuades the chieftain Ospakar Blacktooth to woo Gudrida, making the two men enemies.

Nada the Lily is the thrilling story of the brave Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and his love for the most beautiful of Zulu women, Nada the Lily. Young Umslopogaas, son of the bloodthirsty Zulu king Chaka, is forced to flee when Chaka orders his death. In the adventures that ensue, Umslopogaas is carried away by a lion and then rescued by Galazi, king of an army of ghost-wolves.

The People of the Mist is a classic lost race fantasy novel. It is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and its monstrous god. In the novel Penniless Leonard Outram attempts to redress the undeserved loss of his family estates and fiancee by seeking his fortune in Africa. In the course of his adventures he and his Zulu companion Otter save a young Portuguese woman, Juanna Rodd, together with her nursemaid Soa, from slavery. Leonard and Juanna are plainly attracted to each other, but prone to bickering, and their romance is impeded by the watchful and jealous Soa. The protagonists seek the legendary People of the Mist, said to possess a fabulous hoard of jewels.

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. This is an extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings.

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 Captain Henry Graves, Joan endures exile with a Dickensian London family, and pursuit by a Victorian- era stalker.

Whether your looking for a thought provoking adventure concerning the nature of miracles and the supernatural or simply an entertaining story about pre-colonial Africa, The Wizard will meet and exceed your expectations. Truly a rare book that could be enjoyed by both adults and children alike while teaching them valuable lessons about courage, love and magic.

In Black Heart And White Heart, Henry Rider Haggard mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white. He rides, too, with all his old dexterity, and the story concerning Zulus, witches, battles, sacrifices, and traitors.

A Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a brother entering her life… and soon finds herself face-to-face with a shipwrecked waif cast ashore by the storm.

A confessional narrative from a mad scientist Dr. Therne obsessed with one of the great issues of his day… in this case, vaccination against epidemic diseases like smallpox. His personal fears meet the tragic legacy of other doctors’ careless ignorance and spawn a malignant crusade against vaccination that will ultimately create many more victims. Henry Rider Haggard writes to alarm and educate his public, and creates a very engaging villain to carry his message.

In Elissa Henry Rider Haggard takes his readers to the Phoenician city in South Central Africa the mysterious ruins of which have been the subject of so much speculation and research in the recent past. A trading town, protected by vast fortifications and adorned with many temples dedicated to the gods of the Sidonians, was built by civilized men in the heart of Africa may not be accurately known, but there is ample room for speculation as to the life of the ancient city, and in this romance the author has tried to picture incidents such as might have accompanied the first extinction of Zimbabwe.

This is a historical novel about a Dutch woman who is caught up in the terrors of the Spanish Inquisition during the 1500s. This lively and heart-rending story by Henry Rider Haggard will remind each reader of the value of religious liberty.

Stella Fregelius is a story of the overlapping fates of 3 people in a northern coastal region of England. The story follows Morris Monk, an aspiring inventor, as he gets engaged to his fi rst cousin, Mary Porson, and soon complicates things by falling in love with the daughter of the new church rector, Stella Fregelius. As Morris has prior engagements in this lifetime, he and Stella dedicate their afterlives to one another in a spiritual marriage.

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 follow the hardships and trials of Miriam, a young believer; and Marcus, the Roman offi cer who wishes to marry her.

This novel is set in the climactic months before the opening of the Third Crusade, called the Kings’ Crusade. The Brethren is a classic tale of love and chivalry, unfolding amidst the touching story of two English knights who are in love with the same maiden. The devotion of these men is tested when their beloved is carried away against her will to Palestine and eventually to the court of the famous Muslim leader, Saladin.

An adventurous trader, hearing from some natives in the territory that lies at the back of Quilimane, the legend of a great treasure buried in or about the sixteenth century by a party of Portuguese who were afterwards massacred, as a last resource attempted its discovery by the help of a mesmerist. According to this history the child who was used as a subject in the experiment, when in a state of trance, detailed the adventures and death of the unhappy Portuguese men and women, two of whom leapt from the point of a high rock into the Zambesi.

A young man named Rupert Ullershaw falls in a love with the wife of his much older cousin, Lord Devene. The woman commits suicide, and the young Rupert promises his mother to henceforward “follow the way of the Spirit, not that of the Flesh.” After 11 years of soldiering in India and Egypt, Rupert returns home to England, where he marries his cousin Edith, a woman who is repelled by him but agrees to matrimony only because of Rupert’s career prospects. Edith is actually in love with another of her cousins, the dastardly Dick, who arranges for Rupert to be sent back to Egypt, for a highly dangerous mission…

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 struggle to live in peace, they soon fi nd themselves in the midst of a series of perilous adventures. The drama that unfolds clearly displays the uncommon courage of ordinary people who chose to stand against the tyrants of their age.

Rachel Dove’s and Richard Darrien’s lives fi rst intersect in Africa when the brave man saves a minister’s daughter, from a flash flood. Years pass before they meet again: This time Rachel needs help escaping a Zulu tribe that would have her as their goddess and evading another man who wants her for his own.

The hero of the story is Alan Vernon, a young retired army major, who, after undergoing financial ruin, decides to travel to Africa to make his fortune, in hopes of eventually winning the hand of beautiful Barbara Champers-Haswell. Vernon has heard of a mysterious kingdom ruled by the priestess and plans to help himself to the gold found there.

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 in the north, and many clergymen, were rebelling against Henry, in the so-called Pilgrimage of Grace. To raise needed funds for this rebellion against the king, the Spanish abbot Clement Maldon murders Cicely Foterell’s father and tries to claim all the family’s lands and jewels.

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 was rightfully his. Neter-Tua, The Morning Star, daughter of the Pharaoh, daughter of the ages, high priestess of Amen, beautiful and glorious as no woman before her, sent down by the god.

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 of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller Henry Rider Haggard.

In Red Eve Henry Raider Haggard sets a suspenseful love story against some of the most dramatic events in history, including the devastation wrought by the Black Plague. Will dashing protagonist Hugh de Cressi survive long enough to live happily ever after with his true love?

The Mahatma and the Hare is the story of the selfcalled mahatma – a spiritual man who is able, when asleep, to view “The Great White Road” on which the souls of those recently departed enter heaven – encounters the hare of the title after that animal’s death. Barbara Who Came Back is the story of Septimus Walrond, who was returning from a professional visit to a distant cottage of his remote and straggling parish upon the coast of East Anglia. His errand had been sad, to baptise the dying infant of a fisherman, which just as the rate was finished wailed once feebly and expired in his arms.

Smith and the Pharaohs is a collection of tales from master storyteller Henry Rider Haggard. The title tale concerns a budding Egyptologist who is accidentally locked up one night in the Cairo Museum. Falling asleep, he dreams that he is put on trial by the ghosts of Egypt's pharaohs and queens. His crime? Robbing their graves. But is it just a dream?

Olaf, a Norseman in the eighth century A.D., flees his homeland after challenging the Norse god Odin’s right to a human sacrifice, travels to Constantinople to protect the Empress Irene Augusta from her son Constantine the Fifth and other enemies of the Eastern Roman Empire. From Byzantinum, to the pyramid tombs of Upper Egypt, Olaf becomes a traveling Christian who must reject the adulterous advances of Irene. Blinded as punishment for rejecting the Empress, Olaf’s adventures are woven within the intrigues of the Eastern Roman Empire. Olaf begins his recollections with a polar bear hunt, leading to his fame as a great hunter, to excavating his previous life’s gravesite to recover the Necklace. The other half of the Necklace lies on a mummy reposing within a pharaoh’s tomb in ancient Egypt. The adventure novel shows how these two separate events tie together past and present lives.

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 Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana.

The young Godfrey Knight, the son of a puritanical parson, who lives in the Essex countryside. From childhood on, he and his neighbor, Isobel Blake, the daughter of a wealthy, boorish shipping magnate, have been strangely drawn to one another, although their natures are wholly dissimilar. Whereas Godfrey is a dreamer, Isobel is a hardheaded materialist. Despite their fathers’ many attempts to keep them apart, the two do unite in matrimony, but unfortunately, their earthly happiness is a short-lived one. But, as the author makes abundantly clear, their reunion in the realm of the afterlife will surely be a glorious one...

Arbuthnot has a sudden urge to travel to the Pacific islands after his wife`s death. He gets on a yacht with two friends, Bickley, a doctor, Bastin, a minister, and Arbuthnot’s dog, Tommy. The craft is then taken by a cyclone after all the crew abandons ship. When the three adventurers awaken, they find themselves shipwrecked on the South Sea island of Orofena.

The Virgin of the Sun is a novel by H. Rider Haggard set in South America. A tale that deals with the marvellous Incas of Peru; with the legend also that, long before the Spanish Conquerors entered on their mission of robbery and ruin, there in that undiscovered land lived and died a White God risen from the sea.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic ocations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. Queen of the Dawn is about the overthrow of the Hyksos and reinstatement of the rightful pharaonic line.

When the ship that Andrew and Clara are on, en route to Oceania, founders after striking an iceberg in the south Indian Ocean, and Andrew fetches up, with his manservant, on the desolate Marion Island, around 1,500 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope. It is there that Andrew fi nds the true love of his life, Mary, who had been shipwrecked on the island some 15 years before and who had been living there alone.

The last novel written by Haggard; finished just before his death and published posthumously. Ramose is the offspring of an Egyptian Pharaoh and a Greek woman. Brought up in a life of luxury he is catapulted into a life of adventure which leads him to the fall of Babylon at the hand of the Persian Empire under Cyrus.

Cetywayo and His White Neighbours is a 1882 nonfiction book by Henry Rider Haggard. It was based on his time working in South Africa. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.

Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer, largely of adventure fiction, but also of non-fiction. The eighth child of a Norfolk barrister and squire, through family connections he gained employment with Sir Henry Bulwer during the latter’s service as lieutenant-governor of Natal, South Africa. Haggard travelled to southern Africa in 1875 and remained in the country for six years, during which time he served as Master of the High Court of the Transvaal and an adjutant of the Pretoria Horse. Rider Haggard’s time in Africa proved inspirational for him, and while still in Natal he wrote two articles for The Gentleman’s Magazine describing his experiences.

An autobiography of Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer, largely of adventure fi ction. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and infl uential.

Precaution is the fi rst novel written by American author James Fenimore Cooper. It was written in imitation of contemporary English domestic novels like those of Jane Austen and Amelia Opie. In the customary practice of the day Cooper was reading aloud to his wife one evening from a current English novel, but found the story dull. Throwing it aside, he declared, “I could write a better book than that myself.”

Fenimore Cooper`s fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as “the trapper” or “the old man”. It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier. The book frequently references characters and events from the two books previously published in the Leatherstocking Tales as well as the two which Cooper wouldn’t write for more than ten years.

The Red Rover presents some of the first serious depictions of characters of African lineage in American literature. The novel follows the activities of the sailor Dick Fid, free black sailor Scipio Africanus and Royal Navy officer James Wilder as they encounter the famous pirate, “The Red Rover”.

Set in the seventeenth century on frontier land later to become part of Connecticut, The Wept of Wish- Ton-Wish is a fairly realistic story of the early American wilderness experience. Captain Mark Heathcote, a widower now for more than twenty years, decides to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony and resettle in a fertile valley of the Connecticut Territory, not far from Fort Hartford. The new settlement is called Wish-Ton-Wish, a name which, the author claims, is the Indian term for whippoorwill.

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific 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 form of American literature. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about counterespionage set during the Revolutionary War and published in 1821. He also wrote numerous sea stories, and his best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.

The Bravo was inspired by a James Fenimore Cooper’s trip to Europe where he traveled through much of Italy. This novel set in Venice and it is the ?rst of Cooper’s three novels to be set in Europe. The book largely focuses on political themes ecially the tension between the social elite and other classes.

One of the Cooper’s “European trilogy”, The Headsman set in Switzerland. The novel was inspired by one of Cooper’s trips during his European travels in 1832. The novel explores a number of themes related to how society structures itself, including justice, authority, friendship, parental relationships, love and marriage.

A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic descriptions of early frontier life, Indian raiders, and defenseless outposts, The Pathfinder set the standard for epic action literature. Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest that sustains him in his beliefs.

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific 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 form of American literature. Mercedes of Castile; or, The Voyage to Cathay is a 1840 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel is set in 15th century Europe, and follows the preparations and expedition of Christopher Columbus westward to the new world.

One of the greatest heroes in American literature, Natty Bumppo is the rugged frontiersman of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called Deerslayer for the daring that sets him apart from his peers. But he has yet to meet the test of the human confl ict. In a tale of violent action and superbly sustained suspense, the harsh realities of tribal warfare. Still yet another kind of initiation awaits him when he discovers not only the ruthlessness of “civilized” men, but also the special danger of a woman’s will. His reckless spirit, transformed into a mature courage and moral certainty, the Deerslayer emerges to face life with nobility as pure and proud as the wilderness.

The Two Admirals is an 1842 nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel was written after the Leatherstocking Tales novel The Deerslayer. Set during the 18th century and exploring the British Royal Navy, Cooper wrote the novel out of encouragement of his English publisher, who recommended writing another sea novel. Cooper had originally intended to write a novel where ships were the main characters, though eventually decided not to.

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolifi c and popular American writer of the fi rst half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet is a 1842 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel includes a thematic interest in religiousity and faith. The novel also introduces metacriticism into Cooper’s sea fi ction, as does The Sea Lions, unlike earlier novels which typically also focused on nautical and nationalist themes.

The novel Wyandotte arrived at a time when a patriotic mythology about the American Revolution was developing, and Cooper’s somber tale of the sufferings of an isolated family in upstate New York during the Revolution was not congruent with the celebratory stories then being told. As Edgar Allen Poe observed, in Maud Meredith Cooper creates his most spirited heroine, and in Saucy Nick, his most credible Indian.

Afloat and Ashore is a nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper. Set in 1796-1804, the novel follows the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr. , the son of wealthy New York landowners who chooses to go to sea after the death of his parents. The novel is partially autobiographical, in part by Cooper’s own experiences as a sailor, and is his first full-length novel to fully employ a first-person narrative.

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific 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 form of American literature. The novel Afloat and Ashore ends abruptly part way through, and is followed by what critic Harold D. Langely called a “necessary” sequel Miles Wallingford, which resolves many thematic and plot elements

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolifi c and popular American writer of the fi rst half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Satanstoe is novel is the fi rst of a three novel cycle, followed by The Chainbearer and The Redskins. The novel is a fi ctional autobiography which explores the 18th century colony of New York.

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 form of American literature. The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with Satanstoe and ending with The Redskins. The novel focuses mainly on issues of land ownership and the displacement of American Indians as the United States moves Westward.

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific 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 form of American literature. This is the last volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, narrating the history of three generations of a Dutch-descended American family starting from the mid-eighteenth century.

The Crater; or, Vulcan’s Peak: a Tale of the Pacifi c is a novel in which Cooper incorporated knowledge of ship construction he had acquired while working as a U.S. Navy midshipman in the 1810s. From merely surviving the loss of his shipmates and the embayment of his ship within The Reef, protagonist and role-model Mark Woolston goes on to thrive by his own industry. Following a regional volcanic upheaval which raises new land, he founds a similarly industrious and thriving colony after escaping from, then returning to, The Reef. The outnumbered colonists must defend their new homes and possessions against natives who covet the new land.

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific 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 form of American literature. The Oak Openings; or, The Bee Hunter focuses on the activities of professional honey-hunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed “Ben Buzz”. The novel is set in Kalamazoo, Michigan’s Oak Opening, a wooded prairie during the War of 1812.

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolifi c and popular American writer of the fi rst half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Jack Tier; or, the Florida Reef is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper. Set during the Mexican-American war, the novel relates a untraditional lovestory.

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific 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 form of American literature. The plot of The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers revolves around two sealers stranded in amongst Antarctic ice.

The Ways of the Hour was James Fenimore Cooper’s last novel, published in 1850. Set in a rural New York county seat outside New York City, it is a courtroom drama of a woman accused of murder and theft, and of the men and women who defend her case. Cooper used the novel, among other things, to express his discontent with changes in New York State’s judicial system during the 1840s, with the corruption of courts and juries, and with new ideas of women’s rights.

The Lake Gun is a satirical short story by James Fenimore Cooper fi rst published in 1850. The title of the story comes from a mysterious loud exploding sound coming from Seneca Lake, called “The Lake Gun” by European American settlers to the area, and known today as the Seneca Guns. These sounds remain unexplained to this day, with no clear or agreed-upon cause.

When a black sailor with tuberculosis boards the Narcissus, the shadow of death falls across the ship and the lingering gloom brings out both the best and the worst in the crew. The harsh endurance test of survival at sea, magnified by the dying sailor’s condition, sends the crewmen through an emotional gamut, ranging from pity and selfless compassion to fear, resentment, and a profound hatred that boils perilously close to mutiny. Joseph Conrad drew upon his two decades of experience in the British merchant marine for the vital, memorable characterizations and realistic depictions of seafaring life in this and many of his other works.

Romance is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. The novel was adapted into the fi lm The Road to Romance. Serafina is captured by Don Balthasar’s pirates on a Caribbean island, when Jose Armando arrives from Spain to the rescue.

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fi ctitious South American republic of “Costaguana”. The events described in the novel are typical for political life in underdeveloped countries. The author takes up the problem of imperialism and its corrupting action even on the best people, which is the main character of the novel – the sailor Nostromo.

Chance is narrated by Conrad’s regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but is characterized by a complex, nested narrative in which different narrators take up the story at different points. The novel is also unusual among its author’s works for its focus on a female character: the heroine, Flora de Barral. The narrators describe and attempt to interpret various episodes in the life of the Miss de Barral, the daughter of a convicted swindler, named Smith de Barral.

The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain’s first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. The novella is notable for its dual narrative structure.

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 attraction to the sea to persuade him to run perilous enterprises for their cause, ventures he later learns have been fi nanced by the beautiful mistress and heiress of a rich man’s fortune.

Civil war rages between the native tribes of the Malay straits. Captain Tim Wingard sides with the Rajah Hassim. An English yacht blunders into this confusion and runs aground. When Wingard goes aboard to offer assistance, the crew gives him insolence, not gratitude. He prepares to leave...then sees a woman. She captivates him, literally holds him spellbound. It is a spell that soon wrecks all his hopes and leads to the failure of the important cause to which he is bound.

A novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France, a country now ravaged and scarred by revolution and war. Looking for peace in which to end his days, he withdraws to a safe harbor in a remote farmhouse on Escampobar Peninsula, which looks out to the distant Mediterranean, where the lovely Arlette lives with her aunt and the revolutionary Scevola. But the arrival of young Lieutenant Real calls Peyrol once again to action in a mission of danger, patriotism and heroism.

Conrad’s unfi nished 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 named Cosmo Latham, who visits Genoa during the days in which Napoleon was imprisoned on Elba, where a conspiratorial environment of diplomats and spies of all colors pivot around the spectral fi gure of the exiled emperor. Among the many people that Cosmo meets, there he meets Madame de Montevesso, a liberal aristocrat who has had the misfortune to marry an unscrupulous soldier.

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 stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. This volume published in 1911 contains four tales; The Warrior’s Soul, Prince Roman, The Tale, and The Black Mate.

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 stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.

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 stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.

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 stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. The stories contained in this volume take rank with the most mature and romantic of his work. The charming love and adventure of the life which he depicts in remote places confirm the growing belief that he is among the greatest of living creative writers.

Written at various times, under various influences, the four stories contained in Within the Tides are linked by Conrad’s treatment of loyalty and betrayal. They range in setting from the Far East via eighteenth-century Spain to England. The tone shifts from the tragic inevitability of The Planter of Malata and the pathos of Because of the Dollars to the gothic The Inn of the Two Witches and the grim humour of The Partner. The form of the stories was experimental but does not obscure Conrad’s humanity or his search for moral truth.

These works are unique in Conrad’s oeuvre in being openly autobiographical – but in scope and literary form they differ widely. In The Mirror Conrad explores his vast knowledge of the sea in an era when the sailing ship gave way, after thousands of years, to steam. A Personal Record is Conrad’s account of himself, his cultural background, and the central motives in his life as a seaman and a writer separated from the country where he was born.

Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford’s collaborative work, The Nature of a Crime is a study of human psychology. Delving into the darkest recesses of human mind, they present idiosyncratic characters fighting with their own overwhelming desires and intuitions. The deep love of the protagonist gives way to even more profound desperation. The feelings of the protagonist, as life is crumbles around him, are expressed profoundly by the two authors.

Jane Austen is one of England’s most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature’s most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. This selection of Jane Austen’s earliest writing remained unpublished during her lifetime. The title story was written before she was 15, while the other stories were completed before she was 17.

Jane Austen is one of England’s most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature’s most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were fi rst published. This selection of Jane Austen’s earliest writing remained unpublished during her lifetime. The title story was written before she was 15, while the other stories were completed before she was 17.

Filled with drama and unexpected plot twists, Collins’ Jezebel’s Daughter is based on a play, The Red Vial, which was produced in 1858. A story of intrigue, betrayal and misplaced trust, revolves around Mrs. Fontaine, a sinister widow who uses her dead husband’s poisons and antidotes to control the futures of those around her. Filled with forensic details found in the best detective fiction, Jezebel’s Daughter is remarkable in the way it handles the treatment of mental illness at the turn of the 20th Century.

The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. In this novel of relationships, psychological contortion, and deceit, a priest comes between an impressionable man and the young woman he loves. Collins is best known for originating the genre of the “sensation novel” that is the precursor of the modern suspense and detective novels.

Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity. His odd behaviour certainly points that way. Alfred is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, Ada Elmslie. But at the very moment when various obstacles to the match are overcome, Alfred suddenly departs for Italy, seeking the corpse of his disreputable uncle, who is believed to have been killed in a duel. What could have driven Alfred to do this?

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In Basil’s secret and unconsummated marriage to the linendraper’s sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Wilkie Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world.

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, generously fl avoring them elements of the Gothic novel. The Yellow Mask – a complete mystery novel.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Sister Rose is a part of After Dark.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This is the dtory about The girl named Mary – they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting by Raphael – was a mystery. All they did know about her identity was that she’d lost her hearing in an accident, and the proprietor of the circus had treated her horribly, and, and ... and in her cache of secret personal private things, she owned one thing as precious to her as life itself: a bracelet made of brown human hair with the initials MG tied into it...

In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures for Dickens’ periodical Household Words, producing a showcase of both long-cherished and entirely novel sides of these wellloved men of letters. Through their fi ctional counterparts, the men relentlessly satirize Dickens’ maniacal energy and Collins’ idleness. The result is an exuberant diary of a journey and a rare insight into one of literature’s most famed and intriguing friendships.

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Sister Rose is a part of After Dark.

In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, (Walter Wilding), with disastrous consequences in adulthood. After the death of one – now a proprietor of a wine merchant’s company – the executors, to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean – across the Alps in winter. Danger and treachery would prevail were it not for the courage of the heroine, Marguerite, and a faithful company servant.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). Collins’s works were classified at the time as «sensation novels», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). Collins’s works were classifi ed at the time as «sensation novels», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.

The Haunted House it is a collection of tales, with Dickens writing the opening and closing stories, framing stories by Dickens himself and five other authors: Hesba Stretton, George Augustus Sala, Adelaide Anne Procter, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell. The tales are all very different, but each has an element of the strange and scary.

Magdalen Vanstone and Norah - her sister learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the discovery that their parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from home, the two young women are left to fend for themselves.

Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham is haunted by the memory of Richard Wardour, and his mistaken belief that they will one day marry. With her gift of ‘Second Sight’, Clara foresees terrible tragedy ahead and is racked by guilt. Allied to two different ships, the two men at first have no cause to meet – until disaster strikes and they find themselves united in a battle for survival. It cannot be long before they discover the nature of their rivalry.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). Collins’s works were classified at the time as «sensation novels», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His novels are often as concerned with social issues as they are with simple storytelling – but as more and more critics are suggesting, the best of them are asreadable and thought-provoking today as they were when they first appeared. Of none is this more true than of his 1883 novel Heart and Science, which Collins himself placed alongside his masterpiece The Woman in White.

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Memoirs of a Cavalier is a work of historical fiction by Daniel Defoe, set during the Thirty Years’ War and the English Civil Wars.

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Capitan Sinfl eton recounts the tale of Bob Singleton, a man who goes to sea at the age of twelve, makes a fortune, then loses it. Defoe here offers a searching exploration of society from the point of view of its outcasts.

The Great Plague swept through London in 1665, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year Defoe vividly chronicles the progress of the epidemic. We follow his fictional narrator through a city transformed – the streets and alleyways deserted, the houses of death with crosses daubed on their doors, the dead-carts on their way to the pits-and encounter the horrified citizens of the city, as fear, isolation, and hysteria take hold. The shocking immediacy of Defoe’s description of plague-racked London makes this one of the most convincing accounts of the Great Plague ever written.

A vivid satire on a dissolute society, Roxana is a devastating evocation of the ways in which vanity and ambition can corrupt the human soul. Beautiful and proud Roxana is terrified of being poor. When her husband leaves her penniless with five children, she must choose between being a virtuous beggar or a rich whore. Embarking on a career as a courtesan and kept woman, the glamour of her new existence soon becomes too enticing and Roxana passes from man to man in order to maintain her lavish society parties, luxurious clothes and amassed wealth. But this life comes at a cost, and she is fatally torn between the sinful prosperity she has become used to and the respectability she craves.

This novel, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Presenting a host of now-classic characters in a series of adventures, it displays the richness of his skills of characterization and description. Mr Samuel Pickwick is general chairman of the Pickwick Club, whose members - Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass, and Nathaniel Winkle – form a society to report their adventures and observations. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens’s best-loved characters.

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime’s experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable source of social and economic history. This book is not only a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution. It is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world.

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime’s experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable source of social and economic history. This book is not only a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution. It is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world.

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime’s experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable source of social and economic history. This book is not only a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution. It is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world.

On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. For Defoe, bankrupt and just released from prison for seditious writings, the storm struck during one of his bleakest moments. But it also furnished him with the material for his first book, and in his powerful depiction of private suffering and individual survival played out against a backdrop of public calamity.

Following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe composed a further tale of high adventure at sea. The result was this lesser-known work, a story of pirate life. In response to an alleged letter accusing him of the worst possible deeds, Captain Avery pens a reply seeking to exonerate himself from all such charges. He sees fit to provide a full account of life as captain of a pirate ship.

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime’s experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable source of social and economic history. This book is not only a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution. It is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world.

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 an 18th-century Presbyterian – he blames the Devil for the Crusades and sees him as close to Europe’s Catholic powers.

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 imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.

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 once seduced is condemned to exclusion from respectable society, Gaskell draws a heroine whose emotional honesty, innate morality, and the love she shares with her illegitimate son are suffi cient for redemption.

Sylvia’s Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whaling-port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire where the sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants. The people of Monkshaven hate the French, but they live in greater and more immediate fear of the callous press-gang, who snatch sailors returning from a whaling trip before they have even spoken to their friends or families. The story of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men. One of them is a whaling harpooner named Charley Kinraid, whose charm and vivacity have captured the heart of Sylvia Robson. But Sylvia’s devoted cousin, Philip Hepburn, hopes to marry her himself...

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 on Edward constantly, a ypung woman learns that self-sacrifice is the key to living a fulfi lled life. How much personal happiness can one forgo in the name of duty and devotion to another? A complicated and touching story of familial bonds and the search for happiness by the talented contemporary of Charlotte Bronte.

Enjoying the comforts of his well-kept home, country doctor William Harrison is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the «wooing and winning» of women’s affections. Lured to rural Duncombe by the promise of a partnership in a country practice, William finds himself trapped in claustrophobic provincial life where society is apparently presided over by the scheming of a set of under-occupied middle-aged women. Afterwards, the hapless young physician fi nds himself betrothed to three women – none of whom is the beautiful Sophy, the woman he truly desires.

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 are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell’s best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters.

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 are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell’s best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters.

Set against the backdrop of the Salem witch hunts, Elizabeth Gaskell’s somber novella reveals much about the complicity of mankind. Recently orphaned, Lois is forced to leave the English parsonage that had been her home and sail to America. When the girl joins her distant family, she finds jealousy and dissension are rife, and her cousins quick to point the finger at the “imposter.” With the whole of Salem gripped by a fear of the supernatural, it seems her new home is where she is in most danger. Lonely and afraid, the words of an old curse return to haunt her.

Dickens’ genius for creating eccentric yet entirely captivating characters found its fullest expression in his third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, published in 1839. The narrative follows Nicholas as he escapes from the infl uence of his villainous uncle and the wicked schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, stumbles into a theatrical career, and pursues his fortune through numerous adventures. Upon its original publication, the set was hailed as “one of the most glorious publishing achievements of our time.”

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 are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell’s best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters.

A Dark Night’s Work turns on concealed crime and a false accusation of murder. The secret goes unknown for about 15 years until the body is dug up during the construction of a railroad... The manslaughter and resulting misery for those involved is used by Gaskell to illustrate the effects of dishonesty and bad living, and the torment of conscience.

Cousin Phillis is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, who moves to the country and befriends his mother’s family and his (second) cousin Phillis Holman. This novel is also recognized as a fitting prelude for Gaskell’s final and most widely acclaimed novel, Wives and Daughters.

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 are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell’s best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters.

The Dead Secret was Collins’s first full-length puzzle-romance. Moments from death, Mrs Treverton tells a secret, never to be passed to her husband. Years later, when her daughter Rosamond returns with her husband, she is warned not to enter the Myrtle Room. Strong-minded and ingenious, Rosamond’s determined detective work uncovers a shocking truth.

Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolifi c author and he is credited for writing the first modern detective novel in English literature. My Lady’s Money, published in 1879, is a novel that centers around a rich woman who is a victim of theft. There are a lot of possible suspects she must sort through. One of them – an honest girl Isabella.

Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolifi c author and he is credited for writing the first modern detective novel in English literature. The novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another ‘fallen leaves’, who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and also by secrets from the past.

Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done.

Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done.

Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done.

Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby. Hard Times is the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father. When Louisa, trapped in a loveless marriage, falls prey to an idle seducer, the crisis forces her father to reconsider his cherished system.

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 the Thames, all of London is fascinated by the mystery of the murdered man and his unclaimed riches. Socialclimbers, lawyers, teachers, a money-lender, men and women both honest and villainous will all become embroiled in this tale of love and obsession, death and rebirth.

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 the Thames, all of London is fascinated by the mystery of the murdered man and his unclaimed riches. Socialclimbers, lawyers, teachers, a money-lender, men and women both honest and villainous will all become embroiled in this tale of love and obsession, death and rebirth.

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 the Thames, all of London is fascinated by the mystery of the murdered man and his unclaimed riches. Socialclimbers, lawyers, teachers, a money-lender, men and women both honest and villainous will all become embroiled in this tale of love and obsession, death and rebirth.

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings and the suspicion that his jealous uncle John Jasper, madly in love with Rosa, is the killer. And beyond this presumed crime there are further intrigues, for example, the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his respectable appearance. Dickens died before completing The Mystery of Edwin Drood, leaving its tantalising mysteryunsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective.

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 the river Thames – in honest and visionary descriptions of everyday life and people. We see the condemned man in his prison cell, garrulous matrons, vulgar young clerks and Scroogelike bachelors. A startling mixture of humour and pathos, these Sketches reveal London as wonderful terrain for an extraordinary young Dickens.

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 the river Thames – in honest and visionary descriptions of everyday life and people. We see the condemned man in his prison cell, garrulous matrons, vulgar young clerks and Scroogelike bachelors. A startling mixture of humour and pathos, these Sketches reveal London as wonderful terrain for an extraordinary young Dickens.

The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Charles Dickens, describes the local politics of the fi ctional town of Mudfog – such as thedelusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show – and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which the town is overrun by illustrious scientists and professors conducting ostensibly pointless research.

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 city streets and brings London, its inhabitants, commerce, and entertainment vividly to life. Sometimes autobiographical, as childhood experiences are interwoven with adult memories, the sketches include visits to the Paris Morgue, the Liverpool docks, a workhouse, a school for poor children, and the theater. They also describe theperils of travel, including seasickness, shipwreck, the coming of the railways, and the wretchedness of dining in English hotels and restaurants.

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is fi nally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror.

David Copperfi eld 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 cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora.

David Copperfi eld 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 cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora.

Jennie Gerhardt was Theodore Dreiser’s second novel and his first true commercial success. The story of love between beautiful young woman and very rich man Lester Kane. Lester wants to marry her, but does not even suspect the secret that she keeps. Jennie has a illegitimate daughter... Because of their difference in class, he anticipates his family’s disapproval and decides to take her as his mistress.

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 fi nancier C. T. Yerkes, Dreiser’s cutting portrayal of the corrupt magnate Cowperwood illustrates the idea that wealth is often obtained by less than reputable means.

Frank Cowperwood has moved to Chicago with new wife Aileen. His plan is to take over the street-railway system in the process bankrupting opponents with political allies. The Titan follows Cowperwood through the trials of realizing his dream, marital upheavals and social banishment.

The “Genius” is Theodore Dreiser’s autobiographical novel about the turn-of-the-century art scene. It explores the multiple con licts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality. The “Genius” was deemed so shocking that its sale was immediately prohibited by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.

The «Genius» is Theodore Dreiser’s autobiographical novel about the turn-of-the-century art scene. It explores the multiple con licts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality. The «Genius» was deemed so shocking that its sale was immediately prohibited by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.

The «Genius» is Theodore Dreiser’s autobiographical novel about the turn-of-the-century art scene. It explores the multiple con licts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality. The «Genius» was deemed so shocking that its sale was immediately prohibited by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.

Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice andagency. Dreiser’s best known novels include Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. Dreiser also wrote short stories, publishing his first collection Free and Other Stories in 1918.

An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffi ths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success. The novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde’s tawdry ambitions and seal his fate: It is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American Dream.

An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffi ths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success. The novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde’s tawdry ambitions and seal his fate: It is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American Dream.

An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffi ths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success. The novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde’s tawdry ambitions and seal his fate: It is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American Dream.

Stoic is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, whose main character is Frank Cowperwood, a businessman based on the real tycoon Charles Yerkes. Cowperwood, still married to his estranged wife Aileen, lives with Berenice. He decides to move to London, England, where he intends to take over and develop the system of underground railways. He is still making progress, but the death has another plans...

World-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919 Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer. The men profiled in Twelve Men are a diverse and colorful group: from Dreiser's equally famous brother, the song-writer Paul Dreiser, to the entirely obscure railroad foreman Michael Burke, on whose work crew Dreiser had labored in 1903.

This novel, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Presenting a host of now-classic characters in a series of adventures, it displays the richness of his skills of characterization and description. Mr Samuel Pickwick is general chairman of the Pickwick Club, whose members - Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass, and Nathaniel Winkle – form a society to report their adventures and observations. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens's best-loved characters.

Dickens’ genius for creating eccentric yet entirely captivating characters found its fullest expression in his third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, published in 1839. The narrative follows Nicholas as he escapes from the infl uence of his villainous uncle and the wicked schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, stumbles into a theatrical career, and pursues his fortune through numerous adventures. Upon its original publication, the set was hailed as “one of the most glorious publishing achievements of our time.”

Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfl ess devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to fl ee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. The Old Curiosity Shop an instant bestseller that captured the hearts of the nation.

Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby himself struggles to escape the curse of his own past. With its dramatic descriptions of public violence and private horror, its strange secrets and ghostly doublings, Barnaby Rudge is a powerful, disturbing blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), also known as «Boz,» was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. The greatest writer – he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. This book contains three short ghost stories (in the vein of A Christmas Carol) that originally appeared as Christmas tales.

The story of Ebenezer Scrooge opens on a Christmas Eve as cold as Scrooge’s own heart. That night, he receives three ghostly visitors: the terrifying spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. Each takes him on a heart-stopping journey. Will Scrooge’s heart be opened? Can he reverse the miserable future he is forced to see?

The Chimes is Charles Dickens novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby «Trotty» Veck, a poor working-class man. Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness he is visited on New Year’s Eve by spirits to help restore his faith and show him that nobody is born evil, but rather that crime and poverty are things created by man.

It is the story of John Peerybingle and his family who are visited by a guardian angel in the form of a cricket who is constantly chirping on their hearth. A delightfully fantastic story, The Cricket on the Hearth was the best-selling of Dickens five Christmas books and is a perfect little tale for the Christmas holiday season.

The setting is an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life. Battle is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements.

The Haunted Man is the fifth and last of Dickens’s Christmas novellas. The tale centers on a Professor Redlaw and those close to him. Redlaw often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past. He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw’s phantom twin and is «an awful likeness of himself, with his features, and his bright eyes, and his grizzled hair, and dressed in the gloomy shadow of his dress...»

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 market value. In his son he sees the future of his fi rm and the continuation of his name, while he neglects his affectionate daughter, until he decides to get rid of her beloved, a lowly clerk. But Dombeys weakness is his pride, and he falls prey to the treacherous fl attery of others.

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 market value. In his son he sees the future of his fi rm and the continuation of his name, while he neglects his affectionate daughter, until he decides to get rid of her beloved, a lowly clerk. But Dombeys weakness is his pride, and he falls prey to the treacherous fl attery of others.

Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby himself struggles to escape the curse of his own past. With its dramatic descriptions of public violence and private horror, its strange secrets and ghostly doublings, Barnaby Rudge is a powerful, disturbing blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama.

Magdalen Vanstone and Norah - her sister learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the discovery that their parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from home, the two young women are left to fend for themselves.

F. S. Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «This Side of Paradise» was an immediate, spectacular success and established his literary reputation. The novel tells the story of Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student who halfheartedly involves himself in literary cults, «liberal» student activities, and a series of empty flirtations with young women. When he finally does fall truly in love, however, the young woman rejects him for another.

F. S. Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Embellished with the author’s lyrical prose, «The Beautiful and Damned» is the story of Harvardeducated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather’s fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the infl uence of alcohol and avarice. A devastating look at the nouveau riche and New York nightlife, as well as the ruinous effects of wild ambition...

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 to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a fi lm star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together. As Dick draws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerous path where only the strongest can survive.

F. S. Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrated the Jazz Age. This volume includes the wonderful work – «The Vegetable». An oddity in F. S. Fitzgerald’s career, his play «The Vegetable» was a satirical attack on the presidency of Warren Harding. An ordinary, incompetent man, taunted for his lack of ambition by his family, realises his dream of ruling the United States of America.

F.S. Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «Flappers and Philosophers» was the author’s first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in «Bernice Bobs Her Hair» the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while «The Ice Palace» features a Southern belle whose marriage to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity. Also containing «The Offshore Pirate», «Head and Shoulders», «The Cut-Glass Bowl», «Benediction», «Dalyrimple Goes Wrong» and «The Four Fists».

F. S. Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. A collection of incredible short stories «Tales of the Jazz Age» brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era.

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 well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac «The Rich Boy and Winter Dreams», deal with wealthy protagonists – the oldmoney Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green – as they come to terms with lost love; while «Absolution», in which a boy confesses to a priest.

F. S. Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «Taps at Reveille» is a collection of brilliant short stories: «The Scandal Detectives», «The Freshest Boy», «He Thinks He’s Wonderful», «The Captured Shadow», «The Perfect Life», «First Blood», «A Nice Quiet Place», «A Woman with a Past», «Crazy Sunday», «Two Wrongs», «The Night of Chancellorsville» and many others.

John Galsworthy (1867 -1933) 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».

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was an English novelist and playwright. «The Island Pharisees» takes a critical look beneath the gilded veneer of Edwardian England. Dick Shelton is engaged to Antonia Dennant and his privileged middle-class life seems complete until he meets Ferrand, an enigmatic young vagrant, who begins to shake his complacency and open his eyes to the selfishness and hypocrisy of London society.

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 art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga».

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was an English novelist and playwright. «Fraternity» is his early satire of middleclass complacency and artistic aspiration. This work stands as one of his best novels outside «The Forsyte Saga». It is the story of a bohemian upper-class love triangle, and of a mystic tract.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was an English novelist and playwright. This is a great story about tragic love that turned over the life of patrician. Love is a passion, which the light doesn’t allow. Shame awaits the lovers who dared to resist the cold morals of high society. How to avoid the impending tragedy?

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was an English novelist and playwright. «Love moves the world.» And this statement was reflected on the pages of the novel «Freeland». And no matter where the love storyset – in bright living room or in a solitary mansion – feelings and experiences of Galsworthy characters are equally deep and sincere.

The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18-year-old undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage girlcould still be delivered by the hand of a discreet manservant, and the residents of Piccadilly kept their horses stabled close by so that they could gallop down to Richmond for fresh air.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was an English novelist and playwright. One of his notable works is the novel «Beyond». Together with his heroes the author goes to spheres of unrestrained feelings. Love is depicted as an all consuming power, before which man is powerless.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The novel «Saint’s Progress» tells about spiritual problems. This is a classic novel of belief and religion.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was an English novelist and playwright. «The Burning Spear» is a work that reveals to the reader a completely different Galsworthy – a sarcastic and witty cynic, a true master of British ironic prose.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) 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”.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) 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».

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) 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 already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the infl uence of Miss Aldclyffe’s fascinating, manipulative steward Manston.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. The wonderful story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. «Under the Greenwood Tree» is one of Thomas Hardy’s most gentle and pastoral novels.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London. Turning the maledominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions of four very different suitors. Will she bestow her hand upon the richest of them, or on the man she loves? Ethelberta Petherwin, alias Berta Chickerel, moves with easy grace between her multiple identities, cleverly managing a tissue of lies to aid her meteoric rise.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. «The Return of the Native» illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies. Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life and fi nd fulfi lment elsewhere. But Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia’s. Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them: Damon Wildeve, Eustacia’s former lover, Clym’s mother and his cousin Thomasin.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) 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: the squire’s nephew Festus and the miller’s two sons, Robert and John. As the Wessex village prepares for possible invasion by Napoleon’s fl eet, Anne fi nds her destiny increasingly tangled up with the events of history. For Robert is a sailor while John is a soldier, both with equal commitments to their country and their love for Anne.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work. Somerset falls in love with Paula but she, the Laodicean of the title, is torn between his admiration and that of Captain De Stancy, whose old-world romanticism contrasts with Somerset’s forward-looking attitude.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. This is Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply fl awed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town. In a fi t of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for fi ve guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to selfdestructive pride and temper.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. In «Wessex Tales» his fi rst collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. By turns humorous,ironic, macabre, and elegiac, these seven stories show the range of Hardy’s story-telling gifts.

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 Honourable Laura» and others.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) 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, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman – his imaginary Well-Beloved – in stone, just as he tries to fi nd her in the fl esh.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. The phrase `life’s little ironies’ is now proverbial, was coined by Hardy as the title for his third volume of short stories. The tales and sketches refl ect many of the strengths and themes of the great novels of Hardy. The collection displays the whole range of Hardy’s art as a writer of fi ction, from fantasy to uncompromising realism, and from the loving re-creation of a vanished rural world to the repressions of fi n de siecle bourgeois life.

F. S. Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «The Last Tycoon» is a magnifi cient story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America’s booming fi lm industry. The studio lot looks like ‘thirty acres of fairyland’ the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of Stahr’s pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) 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 passions.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) 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 passions.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) 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 passions.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) 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 centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. Galsworthy’s portrayal of the effect of political change on individuals show him as a great social novelist as well as the author of one of the most gripping family sagas ever written.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) 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 centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. Galsworthy’s portrayal of the effect of political change on individuals show him as a great social novelist as well as the author of one of the most gripping family sagas ever written.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) 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 centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. Galsworthy’s portrayal of the effect of political change on individuals show him as a great social novelist as well as the author of one of the most gripping family sagas ever written.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. In the novel «Far From the Madding Crowd» an independent Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentlemanfarmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life...

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. In the novel «Two On A Tower» Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful Swithin St Cleeve. He is younger than she and stands below the social ladder. The tower in question is a monument to the astronomical observatory where together the lovers ‘sweep the heavens’. Science and romance are destined to collide, however, as work, ambition and the pressures of the outside world intrude upon the pair. In what Sally Shuttleworth calls ‘a drama of oppositions and confl icts’, Hardy’s story sets male desire against female constancy.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) 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 Christminster where he fi nds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking ‘New Woman’. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them.

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Pair of Blue Eyes – third published novel, but not his third novel. This is because the very fi rst novel he completed, he never published, and in fact he destroyed the manuscript. This is the story about the love triangle of a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds.

Nathaniel Hawthorn (1804–1864) 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 which the Greek dramatists used in creating their immortal plays and literature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) 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 College student,Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts. All the tales are modifi ed from the original myths.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864) 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».

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) 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 an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, «The Blithedale Romance» represents one of Hawthorne’s best and most sharply etched works, one that Henry James called his «brightest» and «liveliest» novel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. Hawthorne’s awesome novel of Americans abroad, the fi rst novel to explore the infl uence of European cultural ideas on American morality. Hawthorne is concerned here with the nature of transgression and guilt. A murder, motivated by love, affects not only Donatello, the murderer, but his beloved Miriam and their friends Hilda and Kenyon.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. «Mosses from an Old Manse» is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s interesting story collection, which the was named in honor of The Old Manse, where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. This book includes wonderful short stories like «The Brithmark», «Young Goodman Brown», «Rappaccini's Daughter» and other interesting tales.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) 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 folktales. From the unrepentent Gingerbread Man and his tirades against overprotective parents, meddlesome neighbors, and untrustworthy foxes, to the giant’s wife who simply wants Jack out of the picture so that she and her mate may continue collaborating on poetry, these ironic tales introduce complex, emotional topics within a familiar context.

Nathaniel Hawthorn (1804–1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. «The House of the Seven Gables» is one of Hawthorne’s defi ning works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a «mysterious and terrible past» and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne’s chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals lives «caught in the common fi re of history».

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) 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, were the fi rst published in the form of a series of travel papers for «The Atlantic Monthly». He was in the 1850s, England, Scotland, shows us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered.

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 each personnage explore some individual aspect of life in a mythical Central American town. In this book, O.Henry coined the term «banana republic».

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 20th century. Many take place in New York City and deal for the most part with ordinary people: policemen, waitresses, etc. This book includes wonderfull stories like “The Trimmed Lamp”, “A Madison Square Arabian Night”, “The Pendulum” and other interesting tales.

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 stories of sheepherders, cowpunchers, trail cooks, prospectors, outlaws, and Texas Rangers offer the modern reader a window into the often mythologized American West. Perhaps refl ecting O. Henry’s own experience as a young man in the middle of nowhere, where women were few and far between, many of the stories are comic tales of romantic rivalry.

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 such wonderful stories like «The Voice of the City», «The Complete Life of John Hopkins», «A Lickpenny Lover», «Dougherty’s Eye-Opener» and many others.

William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings. «Roads Of Destiny» is a story about love triangle. An inventor, is in love with a beautiful woman, but his brother also loves her.

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», «The Third Ingredient», «The Hiding of Black Bill», «Schools and Schools» and many others.

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», «The Gold That Glittered», «Babes In The Jungle», «The Day Resurgent», «The Fifth Wheel» and many others.

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 Theory and the Hound», «The Hypotheses of Failure», «Calloway’s Code», «A Matter of Mean Elevation» and others.

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», «The Sleuths», «Witches’ Loaves», «The Pride of the Cities», «Holding Up a Train», «Ulysses and the Dogman» and many others.

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 wonderdul stories includes «The Dream», «A Ruler of Men», «The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear», «Helping the Other Fellow», «The Marionettes» and many others.

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 «Waifs and Strays» and «The Ransom of Red Chief».

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. In the novel «Watch and Ward» wealthy and leisured Roger Lawrence adopts twelve-year-old Nora Lambert after her father kills himself in the hotel room next to Lawrence’s. Roger had refused fi nancial assistance to the man, and he feels remorse. Nora is not a pretty child but she soon starts to develop, as does Roger’s idea of eventually marrying her.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. Roderick Hudson, egotistical, beautiful and an exceptionally gifted sculptor. He is taken from New England to Rome by Rowland Mallet, a rich man of fi ne appreciative sensibilities, who intends to give Roderick the scope to develop his genius. Together they seem like twins or lovers, opposing halves of what should have been an ideal whole.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism «The American» is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman. He is an essentially goodhearted but rather gauche American businessman on his fi rst tour of Europe. Newman is looking for a world different from the simple, harsh realities of 19thcentury American business. He encounters both the beauty and the ugliness of Europe, and learns not to take either for granted.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Europeans» is a wonderful comedy, contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the ‘new’ world of New England.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. «Confi dence» is a great novel which centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angela Vivian. The plot rambles through various romantic entanglements before reaching an uncomplicated, but still believable happy ending.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Portrait of a Lady» is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. This novel refl ects James’s continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Portrait of a Lady» is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. This novel refl ects James’s continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America. The story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena’s heart and remove her from the limelight?

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America. The story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena’s heart and remove her from the limelight?

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Princess Casamassima» is the wonderful story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot. The book is unusual in the Jamesian canon for dealing with such a violent political subject.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. George Flack, the main character of this great story, is the Paris correspondent for an American scandal sheet called The Reverberator. Francie Dosson, a pretty but not always tactful American girl, confi des to Flack some gossip about the Proberts, the Frenchifi ed family of her fi ance, Gaston Probert. James deplored the media, about a match that may be ruined by a gossip column.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Tragic Muse» is wide, cheerful panorama of English life follows the fortunes of two would-be artists: Nick Dormer, who throws over a political career in his efforts to become a painter, and Miriam Rooth, an actress striving for artistic and commercial success.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism Startling novel «The Other House» is the story of a struggle for possession — and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young daughter.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Spoils of Poynton» describes the struggle between Mrs. Gereth, a widow of impeccable taste and iron will, and her son Owen over a houseful of precious antique furniture. The story is largely told from the viewpoint of Fleda Vetch, a young woman in love with Owen but sympathetic to Mrs. Gereth’s anguish over losing the antiques she patiently collected. Henry James created a work of exquisite ambiguity in his depiction of three women fi ghting for the allegiance of one weak-willed man.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. In «The Sacred Fount» an unnamed narrator attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He spurns the «detective and keyhole» methods as ignoble, and instead tries to decipher these relationships purely from the behavior and appearance of each guest. He expends huge resources of energy and ingenuity on his theories, much to the bemusement of some people at the party.

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Outcry» is an effervescent comedy of money and manners. Breckenridge Bender, a very rich American with a distinct resemblance to J.P. Morgan, arrives in England with the purpose of acquiring some very great art; he is directed to Dedborough, the estate of the debt-ridden Lord Theign. But plutocrat and aristocrat come into unexpected confl ict when a young connoisseur, out to establish his own reputation, declares a prize painting from the lord’s collection to be in fact an even rarer, and pricier, work than had been thought.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 –1927) 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 middle of the Thirty Years War. «Diary» is a typically witty account of this journey, part travelogue and part social commentary. Journalist, playwright and author, a wealth of his writing has remained just beyond the public gaze. «Diary of a Pilgrimage» is one such work.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer and humourist. The author sets himself a Herculean task, as main character in his own novel: to fi ctionally compose another novel, in collaboration with a trio of his pipe-party bachelor friends: Jephson, Brown, and MacShaughnassy.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) 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 few disastrous love affairs, and a chance meeting with an infl uential stranger, eventually leading to his decision to become a writer.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) 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 «Peter Hope plans his Prospectus», «William Clodd appoints himself Managing Director», «Grindley Junior drops into the Position of Publisher», «Miss Ramsbotham gives her Services», «Joey Loveredge agrees – on certain terms – to join the Company» and many others.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer and humourist. A charming story in which fi ction is intertwined with autobiographical motifs, and humor goes side by side with delicate lyricism. How true to an English gentleman, burdened not only with self-esteem, but also with three teenage children, settle in a country house? Is it easy to turn a modest building into a historical landmark? On these and many other questions you will fi nd the most unexpected and amusing answers in a novel «They and I».

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer and humourist. An interesting and entertaining account of a life led in the literary circles of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer and humourist. «Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow» is a collection of humorous and entertaining essays. These are his idle and amusing thoughts on all aspects of life, from love to poverty, vanity to ambition, babies to cats and dogs.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) 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 the melancholy to the macabre, and get increasingly bizarre as the ghosts leap out of the tales and make an appearance in the family’s home.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) 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 and Cad», «An item of Fashionable Intelligence», «Blase Billy», «The Choice of Cyril Harjohn» and others.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) 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 of topics, ranging from love to children to cats and dogs.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) 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 they managed to solve their omantic problems.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) 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 be merry?», «Should married men play golf?» and other funny.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) 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 of Jerome, which includes «Malvina of Brittany», «The Street of the Blank Wall», «His Evening Out», «The Lesson», Sylvia of the Letters», and «The Fawn Gloves».

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 with Joyce's own life. However, «Exiles» is by no means straightforwardly autobiographical.

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 lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience.

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) 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 journalist, we see a man struggling to rise above his cruel beginnings and neglected childhood to grasp at a chance for happiness in later life. However as his hopes slowly turn to dust, his determination and mental powers begin to drain away, and the onset of premature physical decline determines his final demise.

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. «The Naulahka» is a remarkable work of fi ction by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier, came under severe criticism by a section of the society for its alleged anti-feminist contents when it was fi rst published in 1892.

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) 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 she would dedicate herself to improving the condition of Indian women. In her ensuing struggle to lay aside her favoured Western lifestyle, and her adjustments to life in the Indian subcontinent, Kipling presents east and west side by side and reveals the complex, often tangled nature of the two.

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) 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 whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority.

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) 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, who had also appeared previously in the collection «Plain Tales from the Hills».

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. «Plain Tales from the Hills» was his fi rst volume of prose fi ction. Vignettes of life in British India give vivid insights into Anglo-India at work and play, and into the character of the Indians themselves. Witty, wry, sometimes cynical, these tales with their brevity and concentration of effect are landmarks in the history of the short story as an art-form.

Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was an English novelist, poet, and offi cial of the East India Company. «Headlong Hall» like most of Peacock’s novels, it assembles a group of characters Mr Cranium, Miss Poppyseed, Mr Treacle and others who, while eating and drinking to abandon, discuss topics which were then of interest to Peacock and his circle of intellectual friends. Peacock uses the work to parody contemporary thinking in a variety of disparate areas, including utilitarianism, vegetarianism, aesthetics, music, poetry, art criticism, and so on. In the meantime there is dancing and drinking and falling in love.

Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was an English novelist, poet, and offi cial 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 years ago. Here are all the heroes and villains we know and love, recast by a keen Victorian wit: Robin Hood and Maid Marian; Friar Tuck, Little John, and Richard the Lionhearted; Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. The heroes are heroic and just a little self-serving, though generous the villains are villainous. The tale is told as keenly as it can be.

Thomas Love Peacock (1785—1866) 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 which incorporates many Welsh legends, but avoids all supernatural and mystical elements. Seithenyn appears as a major character.

Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was an English novelist, poet, and offi cial of the East India Company. In «Crotchet Castle» he did no less for the political economists, pitting his gifts of exaggeration and ridicule against scientifi c progress and March of Mind.

Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was an English novelist, poet, and offi cial of the East India Company. The fi nal novel of Thomas Love Peacock followed the others after a silence of 30 years, its typical Peacockian format intact: an idyllic, country house setting, a genial host, many opinionated guests, and a romantic love interest. Like all of Peacocks novels, Gryll Grange dissects the philosophy, manners, and culture of his day through a sparkling cocktail of dialogue and poetry.

Victor Hugo est un ecrivain romantique francais mondialement celebre. L’infl uence de son oeuvre, creee au XIXe siecle, sur l’evolution de la litterature est indeniable. Maintes fois adapte au cinema, son roman «Notre-Dame de Paris» est une de ses oeuvres les plus connues et encensees. Le lecteur suit les meandres d’un amour tragique de trois hommes pour une femme. Cependant c’est Notre-Dame qui est le personnage principal, cette cathedrale qui recele une multitude de secrets, qui reunit des personnes les plus opposees et decide de leur sort.

Miguel de Cervantes, escritor espanol de fama universal, es celebre en primer lugar por su novela “El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha”, una de las obras mas portentosas de la literatura mundial. Esta novela, traducida a todos los idiomas europeos, hasta la fecha es una de las narrativas que mas se leen en el orbe. En 2002 fue califi cada como la mejor novela de las letras mundiales. La obra cuenta las aventuras de un loco hidalgo que adopto el nombre de Don Quijote y de su escudero simplon Sancho Panza, quien de vez en cuando pretende, con timidez e infructuosamente, bajar a su imaginario senor desde los cielos de la alienacion a la tierra de pecado. Una satira muy honda de los tiempos de Cervantes que no pierde su actualidad hasta el dia de hoy.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “Ghostly Tales ” is a tremendous collection of four chilling stories: “Schalken the Painter,” “An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street,” “An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House” and “Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen.”

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. As a part of an extraordinary collection of ghost stories, “Ghostly Tales” consists of one large tale called “Haunted Baronet.” Full of mystery, thrilling revelations and paranormal, this collection is perfect for a sophisticated reader.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. With the tradition of collecting the best tales about ghosts, “Ghostly Tales” incorporates four brilliant stories, such as “Ghost Stories of Chapelizod” and “The Ghost and the Bone-setter” and “The Mysterious Lodger.”

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “Ghostly Tales” is the most extensive collection of the author’s works, containing eleven atmospheric tales about the supernatural, such as “Stories of Lough Guir,” “Dickon the Devil” or mysterious “The Child that went with the Fairies.”

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “The Watcher and Other Weird Stories” is a collection of beautifully written tales of the uncanny, including “The Watcher” itself and five other alluring, fascinating stories like “The Dream” and “A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family.”

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “The Purcell Papers I” is a collection of early works of the author, united by one vivid dark theme. All these stories are a prime example of Victorian Gothic art, which inspired a whole genre.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “The Purcell Papers II” is a collection of classic short stories. The author fi lled the book with dark, alluring atmosphere. It immerses the reader in a world of the unknown, even supernatural.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “The Purcell Papers III” contains fi ve gothic short stories like “Jim Sulivan’s Adventures in the Great Snow” and “The Quare Gander,” recognized as a classic of Fantasy & Horror genres.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Being an intriguing mystery thriller, “Uncle Silas” tells a story of Maud Ruthyn, an orphan stuck in a weird relationship with her uncle. With the help of his son and a mysterious French governess, this man plots to kill the poor girl for her inheritance. The novel considered a classic of horror fi ction and one of the best Le Fanu works.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “In a Glass Darkly” is a collection of mystery stories presented as cases of the occult detective Dr. Martin Hesselius, who believes that ghosts can be real. Three stories are included in this book: Green Tea, The Familiar, and Mr. Justice Harbottle.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Filled with mystery, “The Evil Guest” is a murder story set in Victorian-era England. It tells a story of Richard Marston, who lives in poverty with his family. His house slowly decays, and moral principles fade away. This decline reaches its critical point when inhabitants of the mansion find Marston’s rich cousin dead in one of the rooms. But who committed the murder?

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Predating Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” by over twenty years, the gothic novel “Carmilla” becomes the first vampire fi ction story ever written on paper. It tells the story of a girl named Laura, whose life path intersects with a female vampire Camilla. Gradually, their relationship grows into a friendship, but Carmilla’s true nature gradually becomes more and more obvious.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “The Tenants of Malory” is the sensation novel about two feuding families, Verney and Fanshawe, and their ambiguous relationship. Arthur, Lord Verney’s nephew, cannot choose between his feelings to Margaret Fanshawe and for his benefi t. Through this novel, the author asks a question – how many moral principles is a person willing to sacrifi ce for a brief sense of superiority?

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “Haunted Lives” follows the story of young and independent woman Laura Gray, who at one point of her life refuses to free a man from his debt to her family. She starts receiving threatening letters, and that is when mysterious man Alfred Dacre appears in her life, ready to solve all her problems.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Combining detective with gothic romance, “Checkmate” tells the story of a rich man Walter Longcluse, who, through a relationship with Alice Wynderbroke and her family, falls into a whirlpool of terrible events, including murder. This book is an excellent example of the well-written sensation novel.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. While being one of the early works, “The Mysterious Lodger” still considered as a fi ne example of horror fi ction classics by one of the most prominent authors of the genre.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Filled with mystery and gothic horror elements, “The Room in the Dragon Volant” takes place in post-Napoleonic Wars France. Young Englishman Richard Beckett falls in love with the mysterious Countess. To be closer to her, he takes a room in the “Dragon Volant” inn, which has a rather nasty reputation.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Set in eighteen century Dublin, “Cock and Anchor” is a story of two lovers, young Edmond O’Connor and miss Mary Ashwoode. Being an unwanted pair for the Ashwoode family, this couple has to contend with the prejudices and outright tyranny of Mary’s father, Sir Richard, and her brother Henry.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “Wylder’s Hand” tells the story of the Wilders and the Brandon, two families sharing a story of rivalry and intermarriage. The Wedding of Mark Wylder and his rich cousin Dorcas Brendon is about to happen. Although everyone understands, there is no love involved. However, everything changes when right before the wedding Mark suddenly disappears.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. As an excellent example of a Victorian mystery, “Guy Deverell” has everything you need: an old countryside manor house with a set of colorful characters and ambiguous relationships between them. Treason, intrigues, conspiracy and a burning desire for revenge – what a wonderful way to start an exciting and unpredictable story!

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. As an excellent example of a Victorian mystery, “Guy Deverell” has everything you need: an old countryside manor house with a set of colorful characters and ambiguous relationships between them. Treason, intrigues, conspiracy and a burning desire for revenge – what a wonderful way to start an exciting and unpredictable story!

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) 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 of the most ambitious and thought-provoking of his works. It is an intricate story about a tragic life that ended too soon.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Combining the elements of drama, psychological thriller, and gothic horror, “The Wyvern Mystery” tells the story of a young woman Alice Maybell. Raised by Squire Fairfi eld, she starts to attract the attention of his two sons, Charles and Harry. This happy life ends when Alice begins to dive into the family’s history, trying to unveil the dark secrets of her stepfather.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Combining the elements of drama, psychological thriller, and gothic horror, “The Wyvern Mystery” tells the story of a young woman Alice Maybell. Raised by Squire Fairfi eld, she starts to attract the attention of his two sons, Charles and Harry. This happy life ends when Alice begins to dive into the family’s history, trying to unveil the dark secrets of her stepfather.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Combining the elements of drama, psychological thriller, and gothic horror, “The Wyvern Mystery” tells the story of a young woman Alice Maybell. Raised by Squire Fairfi eld, she starts to attract the attention of his two sons, Charles and Harry. This happy life ends when Alice begins to dive into the family’s history, trying to unveil the dark secrets of her stepfather.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “The Lost World” tells the story of a journalist Edward Malone who decides to join the dangerous but exciting expedition to a world populated by dinosaurs. The place unfolding before the heroes eyes is full of secrets, and these creatures are not the only danger on the way.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) 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 Lost World.” Professor Challenger and his team should face the very end of the world as Earth slowly moves through a belt of poisonous ether. Should they watch how the planet Earth dies?

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) 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. This book contains a brilliant story about exploring the world of supernatural through the series of fascinating seances.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) 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: “When The World Screamed” and “The Disintegration Machine.”

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 in England. The book follows the story of an extraordinary man, who starts as a romantic adventurer, but living a diffi cult life, ends up as a hardheaded soldier of fortune.

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 in England. The book follows the story of an extraordinary man, who starts as a romantic adventurer, but living a diffi cult life, ends up as a hardheaded soldier of fortune.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) 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 two characters: Huguenot guardsman Amory de Catinat, and Amos Green, an American who comes to see France. The book also features many famous historical fi gures and events: the King of France Louis XIV’s and his marriage to Madame de Maintenon, the cancellation of the Edict of Nantes and the emigration of the Huguenot de Catinats to America.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “The White Company” is a huge historical novel set during the Hundred Years War. Together with the heroes of this story, you will visit England, France, and Spain, and take part in the events of one of the longest wars in human history.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) 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 coming-of-age story set in the world of boxing fights in England during the Napoleonic Wars. The plot also has some attributes of an adventure genre, including a haunted house and a false murder accusation.

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 Winning Shot” and “An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture on Dynamite.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume includes a vast collection of intriguing short stories, such as “The Death Voyage,” “The Confession” and “The Centurion,” featuring a wide range of the author’s literary talent written on paper.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume is a wonderful collection of absorbing short stories like “Our Midnight Visitor”, “The Stone of Boxman’s Drift”, “The Voice of Science” and other interesting tales.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book consists of one fascinating mystery novel “The Parasite” and two intriguing short stories: “The Love Affair of George Vincent Parker” and “The Cabman’s Story.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) 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 by one of the most famous authors of the nineteenth century: “The Bravoes of Market Drayton” and “The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley.”

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 earliest fiction stories. The narratives revolve around different themes, such as romance, crime, colonial life, politics, and even supernatural.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is the fi rst part of a “Mysteries and Adventures” series, containing author’s earliest fi ction stories. The narratives revolve around different themes, such as romance, crime, colonial life, politics, and even supernatural.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Tales of the Ring” is a collection of brilliant short stories, united by the theme of boxing, so beloved by the author.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Tales of the Camp” is a collection of fascinating military stories, set in the prime days of the British Empire. Not surprisingly, one of the stories has a supernatural element. It is a remarkable book for those who wish to get a closer look at the army life of those times.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Tales of Pirates” is a volume collecting short stories about sea and pirate adventures. Mixing adventure, romance, and humor, these tales offer an interesting look at pirate life.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Tales of Blue Water” is a collection of short stories about the sea. Mixing adventure, romance, and humor, these tales present an interesting view of life in the sea.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book serves as the collection of six gripping horror stories, such as “The Horror of the Heights,” “The New Catacomb” and “The Case of Lady Sannox.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume includes short mystery stories like “The Lost Special,” “The Beetle Hunter” and “The Man with the Watches,” fi lled to the brim with suspense, wild twists, and turns.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. Filled with supernatural events, horrifi c scientifi c experiments, and bizarre events, “Tales of Twilight and the Unseen” is an excellent opportunity to discover another side of this master storyteller’s ability to immerse and surprise.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Tales of Adventure” is an astounding collection that anthologizes some of the best short fi ction stories of the author outside of the worldfamous detective’s canon, including excellent tales like “The Surgeon of Gaster Fell,” “The Sealed Room,” and “The Great Brown-Pericord Motor.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Tales of Medical Life” includes amazing stories about a subject that the author, being a physician himself, had a unique perspective on – the medical profession and people involved in it.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume contains twelve of author’s best short stories like “The Last of the Legions,” “Through the Veil” and “The Coming of the Huns,” set in the early centuries of civilization up to the first millennium.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Round the Red Lamp” is a splendid collection of medical and detective short stories, the idea of which was suggested to the author by none other than Jerome K. Jerome.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book consists of the adventure novel “The Great Shadow” together with the selected short stories. The novel takes place in the city called West Inch during the Napoleonic era. It describes Napoleon’s infl uence and reputation that forms a shadow over Europe.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume includes a collection of entertaining short stories like “The Green Flag,” “The Lord of Chateau Noir,” “Craddock,” and many more.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales” is a volume collecting ten amazing short stories, such as “Dedication,” “The Captain of the Polestar,” and “A Literary Mosaic.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales I” is the first volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like “The Last Galley,” “The Contest,” and “Through the Veil.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) 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 short stories like “De Profundis,” “Out of the Running,” and “The Lord of Falconbridge.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “The Maracot Deep” is an amazing fantasy-fiction novel about Professor Maracot and his team of explorers discovering a sunken city of Atlantis. There, scientists are trying to study the culture and life of the inhabitants of the depths, incidentally encountering unimaginable dangers.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Danger! And Other Stories” is a collection of fascinating short stories like “One Crowded Hour,” “A Point of View,” “How It Happened,” “The Prisoner’s Defence,” and “Three of Them.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Sir Nigel” is a historical novel set during the early days of the Hundred Years’ War. As a background story to his book “The White Company,” it describes the early life of Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the war.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is one of many wonderful historical stories about Brigadier Gerard, an offi cer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars, the bravest soldier, and one of the most gallant lovers in France.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume contains remarkably witty stories about French offi cer Brigadier Gerard: “How Brigadier Gerard Lost His Ear,” “How Brigadier Slew The Fox,” “The Marriage of the Brigadier” and other stories.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. Serving as the successor to the stories of a world-famous detective, “Uncle Bernac” tells a murder mystery set at the end of Napoleon’s era and involves a man returning to his homeland, France, to join the Emperor’s ranks.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “The Firm of Girdlestone” is a truly fascinating novel that tells a story of a merchant John Girdlestone and his son, Ezra who have a big problem in life. Their fi rm is about to collapse, and if they do not do something about it, the name of Girdlestone will be tainted with disgrace.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “A Duet with an Occasional Chorus” is a romantic novel featuring the story of a happily married couple. Their life seems carefree and romantic until it threatened by a previous lover of the husband.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Beyond the City” is a novel set in the Victorian era. It tells the story of different women, whose desire for money and romance forces them to go way beyond the traditional notions of middleclass life.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “The Mystery of Cloomber” is a suspenseful gothic novel that centers around mysterious general Heatherstone and his family. Every single year his paranoia rises around the autumn time when the fi fths of October is near. Only his new neighbor John Fothergill West is curious enough to uncover the secret of such unusual behavior.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “The Stark Munro Letters” is an epistolary novel in the form of twelve letters written in the late nineteenth century by a doctor J. Stark Munro and sent to his American friend Herbert Swanborough. These letters describe his attempts to create a medical practice with the help of an unorthodox doctor James Cullingworth.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. As an adventure novel, “The Tragedy of The Korosko” tells the story of European tourists on a trip to Egypt, sailing up the River Nile in a boat called the Korosko. During a morning tour of the desert, they are taken hostage by a group of Dervish warriors. The book raises the themes of imperial sovereignty, invasive foreign policy, and even religious extremism.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) 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 Doyle, based on several stories about the world-famous detective.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume is a collection of plays about a world-famous detective, and his assistant Dr. Watson, investigating the cases of The Speckled Band, and The Crown Diamond. The book also includes amazing plays like “The Speckled Band,” “Waterloo” and “The Crown Diamond.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Songs of Road” is a collection of writer’s some of the best poems. It also includes Narrative Verses and Songs and Philosophic Verses, such as “A Hymn of Empire,” “Sir Nigel’s Song,” “Religo Medici,” and other poems.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. Inspired by Maurice Greiffenhagen’s painting “An Idyll,” and narrated in the fi rst person by a character named Cyril Beardsall, “The White Peacock” is a novel that tells the story of Lettie Beardsall, involved in a love triangle with George and Leslie Temple. It also has a strong emphasis on a theme of the damage in relationships caused by mismatched marriage.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. “The Trespasser” is second Lawrence’s novel, and it tells the story of Siegmund, a violinist, who is married to Beatrice and has kids. He falls in love with a younger musician Helena, spends a week with her, and after returning home realizes, that he cannot choose between her or Beatrice and the children.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. “The Lost Girl” is a novel, fi rst published in 1920 and awarded with James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fi ction category. It tells the story of Alvina Houghton and her father James Houghton who, in an attempt to keep his business afl oat, buys a theater and hires actors. Alvina falls in love with one of them and fl ies with him to Naples, leaving all her former life behind.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. “Kangaroo” is writer’s eighth novel, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda in 1922. This book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of the political situation in Sydney.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. “The Boy in the Bush” is a novel made in collaboration with an Australian writer Mollie Skinner. Set in Western Australia, the book covers a few years in the life of Jack Grant, who has been sent by his parents to make a new life in the pioneering colony. The book also masterfully covers the topic of juvenility and relationships with women.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. Partially projecting author’s political views, the novel “The Plumed Serpent” tell a story of a European woman Kate Leslie and her adventure in Mexico. After meeting with several unusual personalities, she enters their religious cult, full of intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. Considered a masterpiece, “The Virgin and the Gipsy” is one of most electrifying short novels, demonstrating the author’s approach to sexuality and morality. The book tells the story of a young English girl from the countryside, who wants to fi nd something thrilling beyond her ordinary life. When she meets a handsome young gypsy whose life appears different from hers in every way, she is immediately intrigued and at the same time frightened by new feelings.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. “A Fragment of Stained Glass and Other Stories” is a delightful collection of author’s early short stories like “The Thorn in the Flesh,” “Daughters of the Vicar,” “The Shadow in the Rose Garden,” and “Goose Fair.”

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. This volume includes many wonderful short stories like “Tickets, Please”, “The Blind Man”, and “Monkey Nuts”. Some of these works Lawrence wrote during World War I, then extensively revisited specifi cally for this edition.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. “St. Mawr” is a short novel about Lou Witt, who abandons her sterile marriage and leaved England. Her sense of alienation is associated with her encounter with a high-spirited stallion, the St Mawr. She settles in a remote ranch set high in the mountains of New Mexico.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. Set in the Nottinghamshire, England, The Rainbow follows three generations of the Brangwens, a strong and energetic family, deeply attached to the land they own. The book focuses on the individual’s struggle against the confi ning rules and restrictions of social life.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. Set in the Nottinghamshire, England, The Rainbow follows three generations of the Brangwens, a strong and energetic family, deeply attached to the land they own. The book focuses on the individual’s struggle against the confi ning rules and restrictions of social life.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalismand industrialization. Written after World War I and set in postwar England and Italy, the novel “Aaron’s Rod” tells the story of Aaron Sisson, is a union offi cial in the coal mines, who fl ees to Italy from the terrible state of England and his failing marriage. The book raises questions about social and political institutions of Lawrence’s times and touches upon the issues of the ideologies that formed the Western World.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “The Tenants of Malory” is the sensation novel about two feuding families, Verney and Fanshawe, and their ambiguous relationship. Arthur, Lord Verney’s nephew, cannot choose between his feelings to Margaret Fanshawe and for his benefi t. Through this novel, the author asks a question – how many moral principles is a person willing to sacrifi ce for a brief sense of superiority?

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “The Tenants of Malory” is the sensation novel about two feuding families, Verney and Fanshawe, and their ambiguous relationship. Arthur, Lord Verney’s nephew, cannot choose between his feelings to Margaret Fanshawe and for his benefi t. Through this novel, the author asks a question – how many moral principles is a person willing to sacrifi ce for a brief sense of superiority?

Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick”. Mysterious and unpredictable, the “Pierre: or, The Ambiguities” contains all the good and intriguing features of the Gothic iction genre. “Typee” is one of the most famous and critically acclaimed traveling adventures of the nineteenth century. It is a semiautobiographical story of the Melville’s Polynesian travels, an examination of nature, people and their relationships, and an extensive exploration of exotic rituals.

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure story “Moby-Dick.” Being the direct sequel to the fi rst Melville’s work “Typee,” “Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas” tells us about the author’s exciting adventures in the South Pacifi c, embellished and adapted into a thrilling travel story. The book considered a classic of the adventure genre and one of the most signifi cant travel stories of that time.

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither,” the third book of the author, dives deep into the pure fiction territory. As the ideological successor to “Typee” and “Omoo,” it tells the story of an American sailor who decided to explore the South Pacifi c. This time Melville masterfully injects the elements of romance, philosophical refl ections, and satire, revealing his writer talent in all its glory.

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither,” the third book of the author, dives deep into the pure fiction territory. As the ideological successor to “Typee” and “Omoo,” it tells the story of an American sailor who decided to explore the South Pacifi c. This time Melville masterfully injects the elements of romance, philosophical refl ections, and satire, revealing his writer talent in all its glory.

Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” Partly based on the author’s experience, “Redburn” is a fascinating coming-of-age story of a young sailor Wellington Redburn, who decides to leave New York in search of a better life in Liverpool, England. It is a moving tale about losing an innocent outlook on life and obtaining life experience through overcoming adversity.

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” The part fi ctional story, part autobiography, “White-Jacket” is a remarkable, epic travel novel of its time. It is also one of the most politically oriented H. Melville stories, revealing in-depth all of the relationships in the Navy, its rules, and customs.

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” Mysterious and unpredictable, the “Pierre: or, The Ambiguities” contains all the good and intriguing features of the Gothic fi ction genre. The Book tells the story of Pierre Glendinning junior, an athlete and a talented young writer who is about to get married. However, an unexpected meeting with the mysterious woman Isabel threatens to destroy the life of Pierre and as it reveals a veil of dark family secrets.

Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” Partially based on real events, “Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile” tells us a wildly eventful story of a soldier during the American Revolution. An extraordinary adventure full colorful historical events and personalities, including John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, and even King George III.

Herman Melville (1819 –1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” “The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade” is the ninth and the final large poem of the author. Onboard the boat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, the Devil himself decides to entertain himself and assumes various guises to expose passengers. Intriguing masquerade and identity shift combined with the witty satire of the society and the American dream.

Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” “Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War” is his first book of poetry, fully dedicated to the battles of the Civil War and its aftermath. This compilation includes 72 poems about almost every major event, passed through the author’s point of view on the war and its impact on people.

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” Praised by critics of Britain and United States, “Billy Budd” is a highly symbolic poem about the tragic fate of a seaman forced to commit a crime. In the end, he has nothing left but to accept his fate and go to the execution of his own free will.

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” Mysterious and unpredictable, the “Pierre: or, The Ambiguities” contains all the good and intriguing features of the Gothic fi ction genre. “The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches” is a wonderful collection of the author’s short stories, such as “Jimmy Rose,” “The Happy Failure,” “The ‘Gees,” and of course “The Apple- Tree Table” itself.

Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” Mysterious and unpredictable, the “Pierre: or, The Ambiguities” contains all the good and intriguing features of the Gothic fi ction genre. Being the major author’s historical work in later years, the novel “Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land” considered to be one of the longest in the American literature. The book tells the story of an American named Clarel and his companions, on a pilgrimage through the Palestinian ruins. It consists of four parts: Jerusalem, The Wilderness, Mar Saba, and Bethlehem.

Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” Mysterious and unpredictable, the “Pierre: or, The Ambiguities” contains all the good and intriguing features of the Gothic fi ction genre. Being the major author’s historical work in later years, the novel “Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land” considered to be one of the longest in the American literature. The book tells the story of an American named Clarel and his companions, on a pilgrimage through the Palestinian ruins. It consists of four parts: Jerusalem, The Wilderness, Mar Saba, and Bethlehem.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “A Daughter of the Snows” is the author’s fi rst novel. It tells the story of strong and self-reliant woman Frona Welse from Yukon, who has problems with the local community because of her manners and dubious friends. While being in love for two at once, she cannot choose between local man Gregory St Vincent, who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous, and mining engineer Vance Corliss.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. The story of the novel “Before Adam” is told through the eyes of a man of the early twentieth century who suffers from a split personality syndrome: every night he sees bright dreams, in which he is a distant ancestor of a man who lived hundreds of thousands of years ago. After seeing these dreams, the main character tries to reconstruct the life of his alter ego.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “Burning Daylight” is a story Elam Harnish, to whom all life is a game. Playing cleverly and cynically, he makes millions. Asuccessful businessman lives by the laws of the jungle until he meets a stenographer, Did Mason. From this moment on his life changes drastically by the power of love.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This book consists of two excellent novels: an exciting boxing story “The Scarlet Plague” and an intriguing post-apocalyptic tale “The Game.”

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. As an autobiographical novel adopting the name of an old English folk song, “John Barleycorn” tells the story of the author’s struggles with alcoholism at different stages of his life. It also includes a variety of themes like masculinity, friendship, general life experiences and the literary fame.

Jack London (1876 — 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This book includes two notorious novels: “The Abysmal Brute,” a moving story about the corrupt practices in the world of boxing.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. As a road novel set at the Turn-of-the-Century, “The Valley of the Moon” follows the journey of a working-class couple of Oakland Billy and Saxon Roberts through central and northern California in search of beautiful land they can farm. The book shows not only their struggles but also simple human relationship and even fellowship the heroes form on their way.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Partially based on the author’s voyage around Cape Horn on the Dirigo in 1912, this novel tells the story of Mr. Pathurst who books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle. To his surprise, the hero becomes a witness of a mutiny that starts with the sudden death of the captain.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “The Star Rover” tells the story of a sentenced to death prisoner of San Quentin, Darrel Standing. For a long time, Darrel was in solitary confi nement, experiencing tortures executed by prison workers. Trying to ease the anguish, Standing gets his mind into a state of trance, making his mind travel among the stars, experiencing lives of his past incarnations.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. The plot of “The Little Lady of the Big House” revolves around a love triangle that includes rich Californian landowner Dick Forrest, his wife Paola, and their friend Evan Graham. Full of intricacies and love intrigues, the novel is devoted to the relationship of strong-for life personalities and shows the power and depth of feelings that can generate love in the hearts of such people.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “The Faith of Men” is a short story collection containing eight of Jack London’s amazing adventure tales like “A Relic of the Pliocene,” “A Hyperborean Brew,” and “The Story of Jees Uck.” All of them set in London’s favorite place, the Yukon Territory.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “South Sea Tales” is a collection of amazing short stories like “The Whale Tooth,” “Mauki,” and “Yah! Yah! Yah!” Most of them are set aboard a ship or in island communities.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “The Call of the Wild” is a short adventure novel set in Yukon, Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush. The story starts when someone steals the main character, a dog Buck of a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, from his home and sells him into service as a sled dog in Alaska.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “The Sea-Wolf” is a psychological adventure novel that tells the story of Humphrey van Weyden, a literary critic and a survivor of an ocean collision. After the rescue, he falls under the infl uence of a powerful and amoral sea captain Wolf Larsen. So a soft, domesticated man is forced to become tough and self-reliant through exposure to cruelty and brutality.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Being one of the earliest of the modern dystopian fiction, “The Iron Heel” mirrors the rise of the oligarchy in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. It tells the story of Avis Cunningham, the daughter of a famous physicist, who meets Ernest Everhard, the ardent socialist. At dinner, she criticizes the entire system of modern society, accusing him of exploiting labor. Avis disagrees, and then Ernest gives her an example of a worker who lost his hand and was thrown out on the street by his masters. This fact prompts Evis to study the life of workers. The results are so horrifi c that she starts to understand the views of Ernest.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fi ction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “Adventure” tells the story a man who fi nds himself alone on a plantation, harassed by local cannibals and an independent and liberated woman whose arrival at the place changes everything. The novel explores the themes of colonialism and slavery set in the Solomon Islands, the differences between races, feminism, and the strength of the spirit, caught in a struggle with nature and society.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the twentieth century, “A Son of the Sun” includes of eight wonderful stories like “The Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburn,” “The Devils of Fuatino,” and “The Jokers of New Gibbon.” Most of them describe the thrilling adventures of Captain David Grief in the exotic South Seas.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story” is a novel set on Malaita, a part of the Solomon Islands archipelago. It is a story of an Irish terrier named Jerry and his adventures on a ship Arangi, engaged in delivering slaves. This book is also a part of a sibling story, which includes another novel called “Michael, Brother of Jerry.”

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine ? ction and prototyping science ?ction, he became one of the ?rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This volume includes wonderful stories like “In a Far Country,” “The Men of Forty Mile,” “An Odyssey of the North,” “The Priestly Preroga-tive” and “The Son of the Wolf” itself.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This is a collection of marvelous stories including “The God of His Fathers” itself, “The Great Interrogation,” “Which Make Men Remember,” and many other wonderful tales.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “Children of the Frost” is an amazing collection of stories like “In the Forests of the North,” “The Law of Life,” “Nam-Bok the Unveracious,” and “The Master of Mystery.”

Jack London (1876 — 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “Moon-Face and Other Stories” is a collection that contains many wonderful stories like “The Leopard Man’s Story,” “Local Colour,” “Amateur Night,” and “The Minions of Midas.”

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “Tales of the Fish Patrol” is a collection of stories like “White and Yellow,” “The King of the Greeks,” and “A Raid on the Oyster Pirates” drawn from author’s own experiences and memories of the days as a teenager aboard the fishing boats of San Francisco Bay.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Written mostly during author’s “Klondike” period, “Love of Life” consists of eight wonderful short stories like “The Story of Keesh,” “A Day’s Lodging,” and “Negore, The Coward.”

Jack London (1876 — 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “Lost Face” is a collection of seven great short stories including “Flush of Gold,” “The Passing of Marcus O’Brien,” “The Wit of Porportuk,” and London’s best known tale “To Build a Fire.”

Jack London (1876 — 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This collection of short stories like “The Apostate,” “A Wicked Woman,” and “Just Meat” explores themes for which London became famous: human nature, the struggle for survival, capitalism fl aws, and worker abuse in industrialized society.

Jack London (1876–1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This collection contains amazing short stories like “Koolau the Leper,” “Good-bye, Jack,” “Aloha Oe” and “The House of Pride” itself.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fi ction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “Smoke Bellew” is a set of stories that tell the tale of Christopher Bellew who, When Klondike fever emerges, starts a journey over mountains and rivers to seek fortune. Taking the name “Smoke,” he learns how to survive and thrive in the wild lands of the frontier.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This collection consists of ten great stories such as “The Madness of John Harned,” “When the World Was Young,” “The Benefi t of the Doubt,” and “The Night-Born.”

Jack London (1876–1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “The Strength of the Strong” includes seven extraordinary tales such as “South of the Slot,” “The Unparalleled Invasion,” and “The Enemy of all the World.”

Jack London (1876–1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “The Turtles of Tasman” is a collection of beautiful short stories among which there are “Told in the Drooling Ward,” “The Hobo and the Fairy” and “The Eternity of Forms.”

Jack London (1876 — 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This book is a collection of intriguing short stories with unexpected culminations such as “Like Argus of the Ancient Times,” “The Hussy,” and “The Red One.”

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This collection of seven short stories describes life on the beautiful Hawaiian Islands. Full of descriptions of local nature and sea, it dives into the lives of characters and the effect that the contact with Western civilization causes.

Jack London (1876–1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “Dutch Courage” is a collection of unique short stories like “Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan,” “The Lost Poacher,” “An Adventure in the Upper Sea” and other interesting Tales.

Jack London (1876–1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. The book “The People of the Abyss” is a conclusion to the results of a journalistic investigation conducted by Jack London in the capital of the British Empire. In the summer of 1902, he voluntarily descended to the “bottom of London.” As the urban proletarian, he lived and worked for some time in the blocks of the East End to see with his own eyes the degree of hardship and daily dangers experienced by the social lower classes in the capital of the most powerful country in the world.

Jack London (1876–1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “The Cruise of The Dazzler” is an early adventure novel by London, set in his hometown San Francisco. The plot revolves around a young boy Joe Bronson who has trouble at home and at school. The arguments with his father lead him to run away and join the crew of the ship called Dazzler. Joe dreams of a sailor’s life full of excitement but he soon realizes that he joined the crew of pirates.

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This collection includes many amazing short stories such as “That Spot,” “Trust,” “All Gold Canyon,” and “The Story Of Keesh.”

Jack London (1876–1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This volume includes amazing short stories and sketches like “Small-Boat Sailing,” “Four Horses and a Sailor,” “Nothing That Ever Came To Anything” and “The Birth-Mark.”

Jack London (1876–1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine ? ction and prototyping science ? ction, he became one of the ? rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “The Cruise Of The Snark” is an autobiographical novel which describes London’s travels through t he South Paci? c on the ship called “Snark.” In this journey, his wife and a small crew accompany him. London describes the numerous dif? culties during the construction of “Snark,” his training in navigation, the acquisition of doctoring experience far from civilization and other details of this adventure.

Jack London (1876–1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This book is an autobiographical memoir full of London’s experiences living as a hobo during the economic crisis in the United States, hopping freight trains, begging for money or food, and making up stories for the police to avoid prison term. He also describes his arrest and the time in the thirty days in the Erie County Penitentiary, a place of “unprintable horrors,” as he mentions in the book.

Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel “Dracula,” the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. “The Watter’s Mou’” is Bram Stoker’s third novel. It is an adventure romance about Maggie MacWhirter and her lover, young coast guard officer William Barrow who is bound by duty to stop his girlfriend’s father and other local fishers from smuggling. Torn between her love for the coastguard officer and her love for her father, Maggie plans a dangerous mission to try to keep them both safe.

Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel “Dracula,” the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. The novel “The Mystery of the Sea” tells the story of Archibald Hunter, an Englishman from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who meets and falls in love with an American heiress Marjory Drake. She is involved with the intrigues of the Spanish- American War, and all of a sudden, Archibald becomes a participant in a complex scheme including kidnapping, secret codes and even second sight that unfolds in front of him over the course of the story.

Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel “Dracula,” the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. As a horror novel, “The Jewel of Seven Stars” tells the story of Malcolm Ross, a young barrister, dragged into the house of famous Egyptologist Abel Trelawny to participate in a strange plot with a mysterious purpose. Soon he discovers that the goal of Abel Trelawny is to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy and of course, it cannot end well.

Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel “Dracula,” the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. “The Lady of the Shroud” is a gothic novel that tells the story of Rupert Saint Leger. He inherits an estate worth more than one million pounds, but on one condition: he must live for a year in his uncle’s castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains, near the Dalmatian coast. However, one night, a pale woman wearing a wet shroud visits the estate. She dries herself and stays for the night but fl ees before morning. It takes several visits for Rupert to fall in love, despite believing that she is a vampire living in the crypt.

Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel “Dracula,” the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. “The Lair of the White Worm” is a horror novel based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. The story of the book revolves around Adam Salton, who goes to Derbyshire to meet his great-uncle Richard Salton for the family reunion. Adam travels to his house and soon fi nds himself at the center of dark and mysterious events in which a local woman Arabella March is involved.

Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel “Dracula,” the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. This volume is a collection of chilling horror fiction including the title tale “Dracula’s Guest” and other wonderful stories like “The Judge’s House,” “The Squaw” and “The Secret of the Growing Gold.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel “Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus”. This novel, written after “Frankenstein,” revolves around the life of Castruccio Castracani, a tyrant, who successfully commanded Ghibelline forces in Tuscany against the Guelphs. The story also follows tragic destinies of two heroes, Ethanasia, Countess of Valperga, torn between loyalty to her Guelph roots and her affection for Castruccio, and Beatrice, with whom Castruccio falls in love.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel “Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.” “Mathilda” is a ? ctional novel that tells the story of a woman alienated from society by the actions of her father, who confesses his incestuous love for her. The main hero, Mathilda, a young woman in her twenties on the verge of death, tells this story trying to explain her actions to her friend.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 – 1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel “Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.” “The Last Man” is an apocalyptic sci-fi novel that tells the story about the world of the future, almost destroyed by the plage. The plot revolves around Lionel Verney, the orphan son of an impoverished nobleman, and his adventures before and after the collapse.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel “Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.” “The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck” is a historical novel about the life of Perkin Warbeck, claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, the second son of King Edward IV. The book takes a point of view that Perkin Warbeck died in childhood and the supposed impostor was Richard indeed. The book also contains the message that an ideal political system is impossible without signifi cant changes in human nature.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel “Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.” “Lodore” is the novel focused on the theme of power and responsibility for the family. The story follows the wife and daughter of Lord Lodore, who is killed in a duel at the end of the first volume, leaving a trail of legal, financial, and familial obstacles for the remaining family to solve.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel “Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.” The novel “Falkner” focuses on the character of Elizabeth Raby, raised under the infl uence of her foster-father Rupert Falkner. When he is acquitted of murdering her lover’s mother, Elizabeth tries to do all she can to reconcile the two men she loves. The book’s story and resolution propose the triumph of female values over violent masculinity.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel “Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.” This volume consists of two wonderful works: intriguing but tragic “The Evil Eye” and gothic “The Heir of Mondolfo.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel “Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.” This volume consists of four wonderful stories of fi ction: “The Dream,” “The Mortal Immortal,” “Transformation” and “The Invisible Girl.”