General Fiction
The White Linen Nurse
Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, o…
Armadale
The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other …
On the Shores of the Great Sea
Book I of the "Story of the World" series. Focuses on the civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean Sea from the time of Abraham…
The Tosa Diary
Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collec…
Officer 666
Bored with his life as a wealthy businessman's only son, Travers Gladwin learns of a plot by a renowned art burglar to rob his house, so rat…
Literary Taste
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…
The Europeans
The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitud…
The Silent House
A mystery about a "locked door" murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book…
Zwei Kindermärchen
Struwwelpeter: In dem Buch erzählt Hoffmann Geschichten von Kindern, die nicht brav sind, nicht auf ihre Eltern hören und denen de…
Le Vingtième siècle
Cette oeuvre d'anticipation sociale nous décrit un vingtième siècle dans lequel les grands criminels sont défend…
Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatr…
Zumalacárregui
El primer episodio de la tercera serie presenta la España desgarrada por la Primera Guerra Carlista y la Regencia de María Cri…
Camille
The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, that was subse…
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel
The Titus Brothers Contractors company have won a government contract in Peru to blast a tunnel through a mountain and connect two isolated …
The World Beyond
The World Beyond invites listeners on an extraordinary journey as Lee Anthony and his two friends are unexpectedly kidnapped and thrust into…
The Conjure Woman
Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "P…
The House of Arden
This novel describes how Edred and Elfrida Arden and their Aunt Edith embark on a treasure hunt through time - for the famous Arden family t…
Rilla of Ingleside
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "…
Dawn
Dawn (also known in England as "Keith’s Dark Tower"), was published in 1919, and is set during World War I. Keith Burton is going …
Little Saint Elizabeth
She had not been brought up in America at all. She had been born in France, in a beautiful château, and she had been born heiress to a…