Lady Tamina Braithwaite is excited and happy to be secretly engaged to the handsome politician, Edmund Newson.However she is devastated when she discovers he is already betrothed...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (Greenwich, 1 April 1875 – Beverly Hills, February 10, 1932) was a writer, journalist, playwright and screenwriter.Together with Arthur Conan...

Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-First World War England. It is one of...

"The Masterpiece", as it is entitled in English, is a fictionalised account of the Impressionist circle around Paul Cezanne. Zola, who had become an eminent art critic,...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright. His stories show all the attitudes of their time - colonial and...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction. First published in 1880, this biography explores the life of Lord Byron (1788-1824), one of Britain's greatest poets. Setting...

“The poor clare” is a dark novel with a Gothic atmosphere. Intertwine love thwarted and a family curse, which illustrate clearly the social tensions of Victorian...

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, the child of a family of small-town weavers, and best remembered...

Ouida ( 1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908) was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la...

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a English novelist and short story writer during the...