Novels

Het ivoren aapje: Een roman van Brusselsch leven

Herman Teirlinck

Dit is een roman die zich richt op het Brusselse burgerschap van het begin van de twintigste eeuw.

The Torrents of Spring

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The work is a Russian novella that opens with a weary, middle‑aged narrator confronting a sudden, suffocating…

The Diamond Coterie

Lawrence L. Lynch

The Diamond Coterie is a detective‑mystery that opens with a vivid, almost theatrical chase through the…

Königliche Hoheit: Roman

Thomas Mann

Der Roman „Königliche Hoheit“ ist ein detailreiches Bild einer deutschen Hofwelt, das sofort in einer…

Unnatural death

Dorothy L. Sayers

Unnatural Death gathers together a series of short pieces by Dorothy L.

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World is a Victorian adventure that thrusts a motley crew of explorers, Professor Challenger, the…

The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

Sinclair Lewis

The book is a comic‑looking slice of early‑20th‑century Midwestern life, set in the fictional towns of…

Two on a Tower

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s “Two on a Tower” unfolds as a tightly wound episode of didactic fiction, set against the…

The Wandering Jew — Complete

Eugène Sue

The Wandering Jew is a sprawling historical‑fiction saga that intertwines the fate of a cursed traveler with…

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The work is a whimsical fantasy set among talking animals, blending gentle humor with a pastoral English…

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

The novel opens amid the clatter of a London coach, where Nicholas Nickleby, a young scholar, is thrust into…

The Chautauqua Girls At Home

Pansy

The work is a domestic drama set among a circle of young women whose conversations revolve around faith,…

Die Leute von Seldwyla — Band 2

Gottfried Keller

Der Band 2 von Gottfried Kellers „Die Leute von Seldwyla“ ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, die das…

The Hunter's Lodge Case

Agatha Christie

The Hunter’s Lodge Case is a compact detective story that places the celebrated Belgian sleuth, Hercule…

Penrod

Booth Tarkington

The novel is a humorous bildungsroman that follows the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, a rambunctious…

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden is a juvenile fiction that weaves together the lives of an orphaned girl, a young boy with…

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Hard Times is a social‑problem novel set in an industrial England that treats its characters as data points…

The gods of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The work is a pulpy adventure of science‑fiction romance, set on the legendary planet Barsoom.

Damiano: Storia di una povera famiglia

Giulio Carcano

Il romanzo di Giulio Carcano è una narrazione di finzione che si dipana tra le strade di Milano del primo…

The Satyricon — Complete

Petronius Arbiter

The Satyricon is a Roman work of fiction that blends satire with vivid depictions of everyday life in ancient…

Caspar Hauser; oder, Die Trägheit des Herzens, Roman

Jakob Wassermann

Der Roman ist ein biografisch‑fiktionaler Bericht über den rätselhaften Findling Caspar Hauser, der im frühen…

An Old Man's Love

Anthony Trollope

The novel opens with a portrait of Mr Hall, a seventy‑year‑old English squire who prides himself on a life…

Daughters of Nijo: A Romance of Japan

Onoto Watanna

This work is a historical romance set in Japan during the early years of the Restoration, when the country…

A Heart-Song of To-day (Disturbed by Fire from the 'Unruly Member'): A Novel

Annie G. Savigny

Savigny’s novel unfolds as a lively salon scene, where a chorus of voices, maids, ladies, and a bemused…