Novels

The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie

The novel opens in a glittering theatre where the celebrated dancer Madame Nadina receives a fervent ovation…

Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast

Holman Day

The novel opens on a mist‑shrouded New England harbor, where the taciturn Captain Mayo is tasked with…

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

The novel unfolds as a tangled tableau of Victorian intrigue, set against the looming stone tower of an…

The three musketeers

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a historical adventure set in early‑17th‑century France, intertwining the political turbulence of…

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie

The opening places the novel squarely in the tradition of British detective fiction, introducing a narrator…

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…

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Ce premier tome du Comte de Monte‑Cristo se présente comme une fresque d’aventures et de drames maritimes,…

On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau

Wilhelmine von Hillern

On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau is a turn‑of‑the‑century German romance that…

Emma

Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse is introduced as a handsome, clever, and wealthy young woman whose life has been marked by…

The Gay Adventure: A Romance

Richard Bird

The Gay Adventure: A Romance is a whimsical, episodic tale that begins with a restless young man named Tony…

Doctor Cupid: A Novel

Rhoda Broughton

Doctor Cupid is a comic novel by Welsh author Rhoda Broughton, first published in 1891.

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore

The novel is a historical romance set against the rugged backdrop of Exmoor in the late seventeenth century,…

Josefine Mutzenbacher oder Die Geschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne von ihr selbst erzählt

Felix Salten

Der Text ist ein autobiografisch anmutendes Erotik‑ und Sozialporträt aus der Wiener Vorstadt des 19.

Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

Dorothy L. Sayers

Whose Body? is a detective novel that places its famed amateur sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, at the centre of a…

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

The novel opens in a bleak, unnamed town where a workhouse, “anciently common to most towns”, cradles the…

The problem of Cell 13

Jacques Futrelle

The story opens as a classic detective‑mystery, starring Professor Augustus S. F. X.

The Crack of Doom

Robert Cromie

Robert Cromie’s The Crack of Doom is a late‑Victorian blend of science‑fiction and paranormal intrigue,…

Der Zauberberg. Erster Band

Thomas Mann

Der Roman ist ein deutschsprachiger Roman, der das Sanatorium als Schauplatz nutzt und damit das Thema…

I am a woman

Ann Bannon

The novel is a mid‑century American romance that follows Laura, a young woman who flees an abusive,…

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins’s opening places the reader in a bleak, windswept churchyard where a hidden narrator watches a…

Der kleine Dämon

Fyodor Sologub

Der Roman „Der kleine Dämon“ von Fyodor Sologub ist ein psychologisch dichte, von Lehrern und der russischen…

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The work is a sprawling piece of 16th‑century Spanish fiction that blends social satire, chivalric parody,…

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World” is a satirical fantasy framed…

The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4

George W. M. Reynolds

The fourth volume of George W. M. Reynolds’s The Mysteries of London continues the sensational, crime‑filled…