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Tommasina Guidi

Il romanzo di Tommasina Guidi si presenta come una narrazione di finzione che ruota attorno a un piccolo…

Novelas Cortas

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The volume is a pedagogical anthology of short Spanish narratives, each accompanied by exhaustive notes, an…

La trovatella di Milano

Carolina Invernizio

Il romanzo di Carolina Invernizio si presenta come una storia di mistero e passione ambientata nella Milano…

Titan: A Romance. v. 1 (of 2)

Jean Paul

Jean Paul’s Titan is presented as his most ambitious romance, a sprawling work that intertwines satire,…

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

T. Smollett

The work is a picaresque adventure that follows the reluctant merchant Peregrine Pickle as he abandons a…

Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools

This volume is a deliberately assembled anthology of contemporary short fiction intended for secondary‑school…

Far to Seek A Romance of England and India

Maud Diver

The novel opens in a sun‑lit English country house where eight‑year‑old Roy Sinclair, the son of an English…

Flappers and Philosophers

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Flappers and Philosophers is a short‑story collection by F.

Great short stories, Volume 2 (of 3): Ghost stories

This volume gathers a series of nineteenth‑century ghost tales, each steeped in the uneasy blend of religious…

Le tre valli della Sicilia

Gaetano Sangiorgio

Il romanzo di Gaetano Sangiorgio è un racconto di finzione ambientato nelle valli siciliane, dove la trama si…

Great short stories, Volume 1 (of 3): Detective stories

This volume opens with a self‑conscious preface that frames the three tales as a deliberately constructed…

Love of Life, and Other Stories

Jack London

Love of Life, and Other Stories is a Jack London collection that plunges the reader straight into the bleak,…

Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I.

Jean Paul

This volume is the first part of Jean Paul’s sprawling romance “Hesperus; or, Forty‑Five Dog‑Post‑Days,” a…

Burlesques

William Makepeace Thackeray

Burlesques is a sprawling, episodic work of 19th‑century English fiction that begins with a lofty, myth‑laden…

Youth, a Narrative

Joseph Conrad

Youth, a Narrative is a sea‑faring adventure that begins with a group of former merchant‑service men gathered…

The Crimson Tide: A Novel

Robert W. Chambers

The Crimson Tide is a sprawling work of fiction by Robert W.

Stories from Everybody's Magazine

Various

The collection gathers a series of early‑twentieth‑century short stories originally printed in Everybody’s…

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction

The volume opens with a sweeping preface that explains the editor’s ambition to gather the finest works of…

The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper

Martin Farquhar Tupper

The volume gathers the complete prose output of Martin Farquhar Tupper, a prolific early‑Victorian writer…

Whirligigs

O. Henry

Whirligigs is a turn‑of‑the‑century American short‑story collection that opens with a self‑conscious narrator…

The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I

Charles Lever

The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I is a self‑conscious work of fiction that frames its narrative as a series of…

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete

Charles Lever

The work is a sprawling, first‑person memoir that blends military anecdote with social satire.

Rolling Stones

O. Henry

The volume titled Rolling Stone collects the final batch of O.

The Entire March Family Trilogy

William Dean Howells

The March Family Trilogy opens with a leisurely, almost conversational account of Basil and Isabel March’s…