The Book Of Life
  • By Upton Sinclair
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

This book attempts to show what we know about life; to set the bounds of real truth as distinguished from phrases and self-deception. It is divided into four distinct parts: The...

Mathilda
  • By Mary Shelley
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Mary Shelley wrote this novel to distract herself from her grief after the deaths of her one-year-old daughter Clara in Venice and her three-year-old son William in Rome....

Memoirs Of Fanny Hill
  • By John Cleland
  • Publisher: David De Angelis

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the subject...

A Laodicean: A Story Of To-day
  • By Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who has purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one,...

The Diary Of A Nobody
  • By Weedon Grossmith
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Charles Pooter and his wife Caroline have just moved to a new home. Mr Pooter is a City of London clerk with Perkupps. The couple have a 20-year-old son, Lupin, who works as a...

Anne Of The Island
  • By Lucy Montgomery
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

In the continuing story of Anne Shirley, Anne leaves Green Gables and her work as a teacher in Avonlea to pursue her dream of taking further education at Redmond College in Nova...

The Haunted Hotel
  • By Wilkie Collins
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

There was a time when a man in search of the pleasures of gossip sought the society of ladies. The man knows better now. He goes to the smoking-room of his club.

Uncle Vanya: Scenes From Country Life
  • By Anton Chekhov
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

A masterpiece of modern drama, Uncle Vanya is one of the four major dramatic works by Anton Chekhov.

The Old Curiosity Shop
  • By Charles Dickens
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

A beautiful and virtuous young girl of not-quite-fourteen, Nell Trent is the novel's main character. An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather in his shop of odds and...

The Black Tulip
  • By Alexandre Dumas
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a huge prize to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour...

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