Classic fiction (pre c 1945) books

The book plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Viscomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier...  Read More >>

As the story begins, Romayne and his friend, Major Hynd, are in Boulogne to visit Romayne's aunt, who is dying....  Read More >>

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for The Woman in White...  Read More >>

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for The Woman in White...  Read More >>

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for The Woman in White...  Read More >>

The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in...  Read More >>

Three beggars operate in the port of Papeete on Tahiti. They are Herrick, a failed English businessman; Davis, an...  Read More >>

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story...  Read More >>

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story...  Read More >>

The novel has a convoluted plot, in common with many of Collins' works. It falls into two parts: the history of...  Read More >>

Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, (Walter Wilding), with disastrous consequences in...  Read More >>

The plot concerns an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty dilapidated house...  Read More >>

Blind Love was an unfinished novel by Wilkie Collins, which he left behind on his death in 1889. It was completed...  Read More >>

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story...  Read More >>

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story...  Read More >>

Valeria Brinton marries Eustace Woodville despite objections from Woodville's family leading to disquiet for Valeria's...  Read More >>

The novel has a complex plot, which is common in Collins' work. In the Prologue, a selfish and ambitious man casts...  Read More >>

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for The Woman in White...  Read More >>

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for The Woman in White...  Read More >>

Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy...  Read More >>

The Frozen Deep is an 1856 play, originally staged as an amateur theatrical, written by Wilkie Collins under the...  Read More >>

New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously...  Read More >>

The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne....  Read More >>

Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted...  Read More >>

The stories are linked by a narrative framework. At the beginning and end of the book are Leaves from Leah's Diary...  Read More >>