After the First Punic War, Carthage is unable to fulfill promises made to its army of mercenaries, and finds itself under attack. The fictional title character, a priestess and...

Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki. Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Saki's best-known works. The...

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel by Lewis Carroll, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Set six months later than the...

For long I have been spending much of my time in a world of great beauty of thought and purity of feeling, created by the devotion and intelligence of one of the many theosophical...

Israel.An expedition to the area of the greatest archaeological and religious discovery of the last century: Qumran and the Dead Sea scrolls.A brilliant intuition of Mauro will...

This is Thackeray’s first full-length novel, which appeared in serialised instalments in Fraser’s Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840. The story of Catherine...

Hanrahan is an hedge schoolmaster: with his little inkpot hanging from his neck by a chain, and his big Virgil and his primer in the skirt of his coat, he goes walking through the...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Thus memorably begins Jane Austen’s Pride...

Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman Des Grieux and...

An upper-class Russian woman falls for a Bulgarian revolutionary in the summer of 1853, the eve of the devastating war that set the Russian empire against the Ottoman, British and...