Culloden has a great history, but Jesse is sick of history. Viewing the battlefield is the last straw. She wants to go h......more
In eighteenth-century Peru, a historic bridge connecting the cities of Cuzco and Lima collapses, plunging five people to......more
"When John Barnesworth inherits unexpectedly, he abandons his solitude and returns to London to settle his brother’s aff......more
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairytale in Alliterative Verse is a heroic romance published anonymously in the 14t......more
Maroon Medicine (1905) is a short story collection by E. A. Dodd. Published by the All Jamaica Library under the pseudon......more
Dope-Darling is a story of sex, drugs, and music set just before the outbreak of the First World War. Claire is the talk......more
Twenty (1918) is a poetry collection by Stella Benson. Largely recognized for her work as an activist in the women’s suf......more
What Every Woman Knows (1908) is a play by J. M. Barrie. It ran for 384 performances at the Duke of York’s Theatre in Lo......more
The Power of Darkness (1886) is a play by Leo Tolstoy. Forbidden for decades in Tolstoy’s native Russia, the five-act pl......more
Oo-Ma-Ha-Ta-Wa-Tah and Other Stories (1898) is a work of history and folklore by Fannie Reed Griffen and Susette La Fles......more
The Headswoman (1898) is a story by Kenneth Grahame. Although less popular than The Wind in the Willows (1908), which wo......more
Set in a medieval era of swords, battles, and dragons, King Mark of Cornwall takes in a young boy, with whom he felt a s......more
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The Heart of Darkness is a powerful examination of the savage nature of western imperialism in the late 1890s. With stun......more
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Although beautiful young widow Phoebe, Lady Clare, has never met West Ravenel, she knows one thing for certain: he s a m......more
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From the discovery of a strange parchment in an old bookseller s shop to the fantastic descent through a dormant volcano......more
The complete and unabridged translation of Victor Hugo s classic novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The setting of this......more
From the agony of Charles Dickens’ disenchantment with the Victorian middle class comes a profound novel of spellbinding......more
The first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago. In the mad......more
Dickens s scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society. Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for o......more
James Joyce s groundbreaking collection of short stories about the beloved city of his birth. Perhaps the greatest short......more
A masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce s semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and......more
Two boys exchange their clothes and their lives in Mark Twain s classic satiric comedy. They are the same age. They look......more
James Joyce has been hailed as one of the great literary rebels of our time. He rebelled against social and literary con......more