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These sixteen short stories are packed full with charming characters and vibrant prose. Each of the tales are based in New England and primarily centered on strong female protagoni ...

'Meadow Grass' is a series of 13 short tales set in the fictional town of Tiverton in New England, America. The stories cover social life and customs according to Brown and reflect ...

Following the first world war, John Raven dwells on the course of path for his friends Dick and Raven who served in the Ambulance corps. He laments on the relationship of Raven and ...

'Rose Macleod' follows the relationship between grandmother and granddaughter Madam Fulton and Electra. Madam Fulton, a writer, receives acclaim for her writing but won't pursue it ...

Nuori Marius, joka on naimattoman rouva Gottwaldin poika, ei ole koulunkäynnissä kovinkaan ansioitunut, mutta yhdessä asiassa hän on hyvä: latinan kielessä. Hänen ainoa ystävänsä o ...

Sjömannen Ishmael får jobb på valfångstfartyget Pequod, lett av den excentriske och enbente kaptenen Ahab.För länge sedan när Ahab var ute till havs mötte han för första gången den ...

Millaisia vaihtoehtoja nuorella naisella on, kun avioliitto tuntuu häkkilinnun elämältä?Eletään 1800-lukua Tanskassa. Katinka "Tinka" Bai on nuori nainen, joka on päätynyt naimisii ...

Rouva Torvestad asuu tyttärineen norjalaisessa rannikkokaupungissa, ja noudattaa elämässään kristillisen herätysliikkeen kuria. Kun kippari Jaakko Worse saapuu matkoiltaan takaisin ...

"Niin juuri!' huudahti Örseth, 'ja tahtoisinpa tietää, kukahan enintyötä tekee, tuokohan kivenhakkaaja vai joku meistä!"Alexander Kiellandin yhteiskunnallisessa satiirissa toinen t ...

Tunteikas romaani voimakkaasta ensirakkaudesta.Ranska, 1800-luku. Felix on nuori mies, jolla ei ole ollut elämässään onnea. Hänen äitinsä oli etäinen, ja imettäjästä tuli Felixille ...

Traaginen romaani menneen ajan Ranskasta.Eletään 1800-lukua. Julia on aatelisneito, jossa riittää nuoruuden tunnetta ja tulta. Julia ei kuitenkaan aina mieti päätöksiään loppuun sa ...

The bed-ridden widow Julia Charnock Poynsett lives at home with her two youngest sons, but soon her three eldest children, who left home to get married, will return with their wive ...

Charlotte Mary Yonge’s ‘The Young Step-Mother’ - or ´A Chronicle of Mistakes´ - is a historical fiction novel that tells the story of the heroine, Albinia Ferrars, who leaves her h ...

Educated Evans and The Miller are back in Edgar Wallace’s Christmas novel ‘A Present for Evans’. Set in the backdrop of seedy London streets between the two World Wars, our favouri ...

H.G. Wells considered his short story, 'The Jilting of Jane', to be amongst the best of his early fiction. This romantic, mystery novella tells the story of Jane, a maid working in ...

'The Apple' is a fantasy-mystery short story by H.G. Wells. It is the tale of a student who, whilst travelling by train in a third-class carriage, is offered genuine, forbidden fru ...

War is looming as England is riven by a power struggle between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort. Into the chaos comes a fearsome figure, Norman of Torn, a warrior with a thirst ...

A cross between the 'Three Musketeers' and 'Zorro', this swashbuckling adventure is full of sword fights and secret missions.Set during the French Revolution, it tells the story of ...

When the gambler, John Oakhurst, senses that he may have outstayed his welcome in the mining camp of Poker Flat, he sets off to find pastures new.Accompanied by the local drunk, Un ...

This is a tale of a railroad in Western America that is rampant with fraud, murder, and a stolen steam engine, while one less-than-tough man in the midst of it all, tries to overco ...

An unsentimental look at the lives of farmers and businessmen in the late 19th century, ‘The Octopus’ details the expansion of the railroad, its tracks spreading out like tentacles ...

A coming-of-age novel, ‘The Road to the Open’ follows the complicated liaisons of composer, Baron Georg von Wergenthin. While a talented man, Wergenthin lacks motivation and, inste ...

The inspiration behind ‘Eyes Wide Shut,’ starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, ‘The Dead are Silent’ is a tense psychological novella. Exploring the social parameters of 19th cent ...

Written almost as an interior monologue, ‘Bertha Garlan’ follows the eponymous Bertha on her quest for love. A widow in her thirties, Bertha previously married out of convention. H ...

On the Greek island of Phrosos, Count Antonio has forsaken his rank and his Prince for what he thinks is Right. He now lives as an outlaw in the hill yet he is still remembered fon ...