Literary Fiction
Just As I Am
The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate …
Elsie Venner
Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interr…
Asphodel
Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of…
Barnaby Rudge
The Protestant Sir John Chester and the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale have been feuding for years. In "Romeo and Juliet" fashion, Che…
The Double: A Petersburg Poem
In this classic novella, the life of a drab office clerk named Golyadkin begins to be haunted by his "doppelgänger," a man id…
Les veillées du chauffeur
Tristan Bernard (1866-1947) nous emmène en route à travers la France avec cette collection de courtes vignettes et anecdotes a…
Martin Chuzzlewit
Dickens portrayal of selfishness, in this case in the Chuzzlewit family. Old Martin has a great fortune, and everyone wants in on it, espec…
De Kleine Zielen
De kleine zielen is het eerste gedeelte van de romancyclus De boeken der kleine zielen, die zich afspeelt in Den Haag.Fragmenten uit een rec…
Cuentos escogidos
Guy de Maupassant es un escritor naturalista francés cuya escritura sencilla fue muy admirada en su tiempo y escritores posteriores a…
Howards End
Considered Forster's masterpiece and one of the best books of the 20th century, Howards End tackles social conventions of the Edwardian era.…
Uma Família Ingleza
Carlos, o filho de um comerciante inglês do Porto (Mr. Richard Whitestone) e Cecília, a filha do guarda-livros do escritó…
Le Loup blanc
France Bretagne Roman HistoireRoman d’aventures, en Bretagne, au 18ème siècle.Histoire de France et de Bretagne. Le statut de …
The Black Monk
Aspiring academic Andrei Kovrin, while summering in the countryside per the advice of a physician, is haunted by the apparition of a black m…
The Untempered Wind
Upon publication of “The Untempered Wind” in 1894, Joanna Wood quickly rose to international prominence, becoming in the next few years the …
María
María es la única novela del escritor colombiano Jorge Isaacs que se desarrolla en la exhuberancia del Valle del Cauca y que n…
Some Do Not...
Set immediately before and during the Great War, Some Do Not... is a tale of social cruelty among the English upper classes that pits real h…
The Red and the Black
It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws as Stendhal bestows upon young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son…
Taking the Bastile
Pitou lost his mother when he was small. He was raised by a stern aunt who did not really love him. He starts knowing the world by going to …
The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. (The first is Tales Of The Five…
Hieroglyphic Tales
Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...…