Novels

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

John Buchan’s The Thirty‑Nine Steps is a wartime spy story that begins in the summer of 1915, when a weary,…

The Red Lily — Complete

Anatole France

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

Torchy and Vee

Sewell Ford

Torchy and Vee is a collection of short, humor‑tinged stories set against the backdrop of World War I…

Gevoel en verstand

Jane Austen

Dit werk is een Nederlandse vertaling van Jane Austens eerste roman, waarin de familie Dashwood centraal…

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

Joseph Conrad

The work is a compact political thriller set in turn‑of‑the‑century London, where the seemingly mundane shop…

The Great God Pan

Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen’s tale unfolds as a slow‑burning horror, beginning with a quiet, almost pastoral conversation…

Maman Léo Les Habits Noirs Tome V

Paul Féval

Ce premier volume de la série Maman Léo de Paul Féval s’inscrit dans la tradition du roman d’aventures du…

Lady Audley's Secret

M. E. Braddon

The novel is a Victorian psychological domestic drama that opens with an elaborate, almost reverent…

The Passionate Friends

H. G. Wells

The Passionate Friends is a reflective, semi‑autobiographical novel by H. G.

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill

Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

A Romance of Billy‑Goat Hill is a regional novel set in a lush Kentucky spring, where the old Carsey mansion,…

Carmilla

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla is a Gothic novella that blends the conventions of young‑women fiction with a chilling vampire tale.

Miss Mapp

E. F. Benson

The novel is a comic portrait of English genteel life, centered on the petty rivalries and convivial banter…

The Place of Honeymoons

Harold MacGrath

The Place of Honeymoons is a genteel, multi‑character tableau set on a sun‑kissed terrace overlooking the…

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The opening places the reader on a damp, fog‑filled train bound for St Petersburg in late November, where…

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

The novel is an autobiographical fiction that follows the early life of Stephen Dedalus, a young Dublin boy…

'Firebrand' Trevison

Charles Alden Seltzer

‘Firebrand’ Trevison is a Western story that begins not with a gunfight but with a flurry of letters written…

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Persuasion is a late‑nineteenth‑century English novel that begins by sketching the narrow world of Sir Walter…

L'île mystérieuse

Jules Verne

Ce roman mêle science‑fiction, aventure et récit de naufrage.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

Thomas Hardy

The work is a Victorian‑era didactic novel that weaves together themes of poverty, social hierarchy, and…

Peter the Brazen: A Mystery Story of Modern China

George F. Worts

Peter the Brazen is a detective‑mystery set against the bustling backdrop of early twentieth‑century China.

The Gay Cockade

Temple Bailey

The Gay Cockade is a collection of short stories first published in 1921, and it opens with a lively sketch…

The Hand in the Dark

Arthur J. Rees

The Hand in the Dark is a classic detective‑mystery that opens amid the aftermath of a murder at a country…

The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot

Holman Day

The opening places the reader in a gritty, turn‑of‑the‑century mill city, where Walker Farr, a young man with…

In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim

Frances Hodgson Burnett

In this domestic vignette by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the narrative opens on a horse‑riding rider who, after…