The Fat And The Thin
  • By Emile Zola
  • Publisher: Emile Zola

The Fat And The Thin, also known as Le Ventre de Paris(1873) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. It is set in and around Les...

Over The River
  • By John Galsworthy
  • Publisher: John Galsworthy

“Over the river” (1933) is a novel that ends the "trilogy of Dinny" and is especially a great slice of English life (along the nearly fifty years between...

Chantry House
  • By Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Publisher: Charlotte Mary Yonge

Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) was an English novelist known for her huge output, now mostly out of print. This story of the 19th century is a psychological thriller genre.

The Master Of Ballantrae
  • By Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Publisher: Robert Louis Stevenson

“The master of Ballantrae” is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1888 and is certainly the most novel and complex thought of Scottish author. The plot of the...

Across The Plains
  • By Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Publisher: Robert Louis Stevenson

Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado...

Sanders Of The River
  • By Edgar Wallace
  • Publisher: Edgar Wallace

Sanders of the River was written by Edgar Wallace in 1911. This was the height of Edwardian power culminating in positive ideas about The British Empire and the role of Britain in...

The Mayor Of Casterbridge
  • By Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher: Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels...

The Amateur Emigrant
  • By Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Publisher: Robert Louis Stevenson

"The amateur emigrant", written by Robert Louis Stevenson between 1879 and 1880, is an account of the trip that the writer do ' from Scotland to California to visit...

North And South
  • By Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Publisher: Elizabeth Gaskell

“North and South “(1854) is a novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The title refers to one of the themes of the novel: the contrast of lifestyles between the...

The Trumpet-major
  • By Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher: Thomas Hardy

The Trumpet-Major is a novel by Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel. It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday,...

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