Novels

Children of the Whirlwind

Leroy Scott

The novel is a hard‑boiled love story set against a criminal underworld, where the protagonist Larry, a…

The Zeppelin's Passenger

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a World‑War‑I‑set historical novel that opens with a leisurely autumn walk…

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s Notre‑Dame de Paris is a sprawling historical novel that intertwines the fate of a medieval…

The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love

William Le Queux

The novel is a classic spy‑mystery that begins with a tense, private meeting in a Scottish manor.

The Martian: A Novel

George Du Maurier

The work is a lively, first‑person tale that blends youthful wanderings with a hint of the extraordinary.

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is a domestic novel that foregrounds the lives of a provincial French middle‑class family, with…

The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne

The opening places you amid a desperate rescue on a deserted shore, where a cast of characters, reporter,…

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

Stephen Crane

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative set amid the American Civil War, focusing on a young Virginian…

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus is a work that straddles science‑fiction, horror, and…

Hermann Lauscher

Hermann Hesse

Der Text ist ein persönliches Bekenntnis­buch des jungen Hermann Hesses, das ursprünglich 1900 unter dem…

Six Girls: A Home Story

Fannie Belle Irving

Six Girls: A Home Story is a juvenile fiction tale that centers on the everyday dramas of a household of…

A Woman at Bay; Or, A Fiend in Skirts

Nicholas Carter

The story is a classic detective yarn featuring the hard‑boiled sleuth Nick Carter and his resourceful…

A Illustre Casa de Ramires

Eça de Queirós

A Illustre Casa de Ramires apresenta‑se como um romance histórico‑filosófico, iniciado com a descrição…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 07

The volume opens with a lively, mock‑heroic poem about the medieval town of Weinsberg, where a king’s wrath…

Desperate Remedies

Thomas Hardy

The novel opens in a moment of frantic, sleepless anxiety, as the young maid Cytherea lies awake, wrestling…

The Amazing Marriage — Complete

George Meredith

The Amazing Marriage – Complete is a nineteenth‑century English fiction that opens with a wandering young…

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair is a satirical novel that opens amid the bustling, self‑conscious world of Sir Pitt Crawley, a…

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto is the first full‑blown gothic novel, a horror tale that intertwines the anxieties of…

Reisontmoetingen van Joachim Polsbroekerwoud en zijne Vrienden

Bernardus Gewin

Dit werk is een mengeling van reisverslag, literaire herinnering en humoristische essay, geschreven door…

Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter

Lawrence L. Lynch

Lawrence L. Lynch’s “Madeline Payne, the Detective’s Daughter” is a detective‑mystery story that thrusts its…

Création et rédemption, deuxième partie: La fille du marquis

Alexandre Dumas

Ce roman d’Alexandre Dumas, inscrit sous la rubrique « France – Histoire – Révolution, 1789‑1799 – Fiction »,…

Das Gemeinsame

René Arcos

Der Text ist ein französischer Kurzgeschichten‑Katalog, von René Arcos ins Deutsche übertragen, und eröffnet…

Gargantua and Pantagruel

François Rabelais

François Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel is a five‑volume French work rendered here in English, beginning…

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

Twain, Mark; Warner, Charles Dudley

The work is a satirical political fiction set against a backdrop of speculative iron deals and family…