Novels

Only a girl's love

Charles Garvice

The novel is a late‑Victorian romance in the vein of the popular dime‑novel love stories that Charles Garvice…

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens

This work is Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas,” a Victorian…

Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange

John Oliver Hobbes

Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange is a Victorian‑era religious fiction that…

The Sign of the Four

Arthur Conan Doyle

The opening of this work places the reader squarely in the world of Victorian‑London private investigation,…

Moloks leende: Roman

Daniel Berg

Romanen Moloks leende är en svensk skildring av familjelivet kring lektor Tedelius och hans hustru, med fokus…

Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts: Novelle

Eichendorff, Joseph, Freiherr von

Die Novelle „Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts“ von Joseph von Eichendorff ist ein jugendlicher Bildungsroman,…

One of the Six Hundred: A Novel

James Grant

One of the Six Hundred is a Victorian‑era novel set against the backdrop of the Crimean War, though its…

The murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

The novel opens with a brisk, first‑person account of a physician‑detective who is summoned to the bedside of…

El crimen y el castigo

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

El libro se presenta como una novela de intriga psicológica ambientada en la San Petersburgo del siglo XIX,…

The Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie

The opening places you aboard a quiet Calais express, where a weary narrator, recently back from Paris and…

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…

Monte-Cristo's Daughter

Edmund Flagg

Monte‑Cristo’s Daughter is a sequel that continues the adventure of Edmond Dantès after the events of Dumas’s…

One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex

Alfred Ollivant

One Woman is a regional romance set in Sussex, presenting a tangled web of family loyalties, unspoken…

Don Quijote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Linnet: A Romance

Grant Allen

Linnet: A Romance unfolds as a light‑hearted travel tale set against the Alpine backdrop of the Tyrol, with a…

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

The work is a first‑person adventure narrative that begins with a detailed autobiographical preface.

The call of the wild

Jack London

Jack London’s story opens in the lush, sun‑kissed estate of Judge Miller, where the massive St.

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The work is a Victorian‑era psychological thriller that blends science‑fiction speculation with gothic…

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Bleak House is a sprawling Victorian novel that begins amid a relentless rainstorm on the desolate estate of…

The Passionate Elopement

Compton MacKenzie

The work is a comic, socially satirical novel set in eighteenth‑century England, where the author foregrounds…

Manon Lescaut

abbé Prévost

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

The Car of Destiny

Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris); Williamson, A. M.

The Car of Destiny is a turn‑of‑the‑century adventure romance set against a backdrop of Spanish royalty and…

The Boy with Wings

Berta Ruck

The novel is a wartime romance set against the flamboyant backdrop of an English artists’ ball in the early…

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

The Phantom of the Opera is a Gothic melodrama that intertwines horror, musical intrigue, and Parisian…