Lucy Harding: a romance of Russia

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

The novel opens with a self‑portrait of its orphaned narrator, Pip, whose very name is a contraction of the…

A farewell to arms

Ernest Hemingway

The novel opens on a summer‑time front line where a house overlooks a river, a plain of crops, and distant…

What Will People Say? A Novel

Rupert Hughes

What you have here is a social‑drama set in 20th‑century New York, cataloguing the tangled relationships of a…

Manon Lescaut

abbé Prévost

The work is an eighteenth‑century French adventure romance that begins with a vivid tableau of a bustling…

Eloisa: or, A series of original letters

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Eloisa, or, A Series of Original Letters is an epistolary work by Jean‑Jacques Rousseau that unfolds as a…

The Red Lily — Complete

Anatole France

The Red Lily is a multi‑part French novel by Anatole France, presented here in English translation.