Literary Fiction
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Tales from Ariosto
The object of the present venture is to do something to revive the interest of the ordinary English reader in Ariosto. The present volume is…
Harmer John
Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name…
The Shadow-Line
In this engaging and well-crafted novella, an older man recalls how a combination of obscure personal impulses and diabolical co-incidences …
Colonel Chabert
The short novel “Colonel Chabert” (1832) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the sprawling novel series titled “The Human Comedy.” Chabert,…
Zum wilden Mann
Zumindest um eine Ecke gedacht erinnert die Novelle „Zum Wilden Mann“ durchaus an die den cineastischen Evergreen rund um die Feuerzangenbow…
The Judgment of Eve
May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous in Britain and the US in the 1910’s and 20’s. The Judgmen…
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …
Stopfkuchen
"Stopfkuchen", eigentlich Heinrich Schaumann, wäre in der Jetzt-Zeit wohl ein gemobbter Junge, ein Schul- und Studien"ve…
Los Nazarenos
Los Nazarenos es la obra cumbre de Pepe Milla. La trama describe la rivalidad entre las familias mientras colapsa la Capitanía Genera…
Barnaby Rudge
Barnaby Rudge is, naast Londen en Parijs, een van de twee historische romans van Charles Dickens. Het verhaal behandelt de Gordon oproer uit…
The Story of a Modern Woman
“The Story of a Modern Woman” (1894) is a work of feminist social realism. In its time it was one of the most famous and influential novels …
Lolly Willowes
Laura Willowes, forced to move from her family home due to the death of her father, endures her role as Aunt Lolly in her new home with her …
The Unknown Masterpiece
“The Unknown Masterpiece” (“Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, published with revisions in 1845, after earli…
Mr. Moffatt
Mr. Moffatt owns a chemist's business in suburban Sydney, Australia, where he lives with his wife, Florence, and adult daughter, Naomi. The …
Un Viaje de Novios
Publicada en 1881, esta novela de la condesa Pardo Bazán narra el viaje de una pareja que ha contraído un matrimonio de conven…
The Adventure of the Broad Arrow
When a few men decide to go for looking for gold in the outback of Australia, days of extreme heat with no water and no rain in sight, make …
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
La cruzada de los niños
La cruzada de los niños, constituye una joya de la literatura universal en la que, mediante una polifonía de voces, ocho mon&o…
Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade
This extract, taken from Parodies of the works of English and American Authors, vol 1, of parodies of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade…