'Fanny Hill or Memories of a Woman of Pleasure', considered the first modern erotic novel, is also one of the great portraits of eighteenth-century Europe. In the form of letters...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among...

Lewis Carroll's classic tale of nonsense and imagination, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was an immediate sensation upon its publication in 1865. It tells the tale of Alice, a...

Catherine Avalon is bright, confident, inquisitive and ready for adventure. On a visit to Applewood Court, in the year 1790, she encounters intrigue, ancient love stories, witches...

Through the Looking-Glass, is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's...

‘The Awakening’ is an 1899 novel by Kate Chopin set in New Orleans and the Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century. It is widely seen as a seminal work of early feminism...

"The Canterville Ghost" is a novella by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in "The Court and Society Review", 23 February and...

"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (or, in more recent editions, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn") is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December...

Cholera onboard a riverboat plying the Missoury Riverf Breaks of Montana territoy in 1865. The captain chooses to quarentine the passangers on shore as a means of stopping the...