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…
Thyrza
Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she fal…
Victory
After spending some years wandering about the East and engaging in various adventures, Axel Heyst, a man of independent means who feels litt…
Mosquitoes
Four days on a patron's yacht; artists during the roaring twenties explore ... This version is tamer than the original housed at the Univers…
Lore of Proserpine
If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…
The Fortunes of Nigel
During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family ho…
Amor y Llanto
Confidencias de reyes, reinas, sus séquitos y sus cortes. Conjunto de novelas monárquicas con altos tonos de historia, ambien…
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 …
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…
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,…
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 …