Classic fiction (pre c 1945) books

Er beschreibt den beruflichen und gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg des ehemaligen Unteroffiziers Georges Duroy im Paris...  Read More >>

Rudyard Kipling has been attacked for championing British imperialism and celebrated for satirizing it. In fact,...  Read More >>

A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations...  Read More >>

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Included in this volume: The Strength of the Strong, South of the Slot, The Unparalleled Invasion, The Enemy...  Read More >>

Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important...  Read More >>

The classic action-adventure romance Mistress Wilding offers something for every Rafael Sabatini fan. Set amidst...  Read More >>

Written in the form of letters, it recounts a blossoming romance amid St. Petersburg's slums between a middle-aged...  Read More >>

Volume three of the complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics. Macabre parties...  Read More >>

Zola presents a study of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The heroine is Lisa...  Read More >>

Juliette has sworn to avenge her brother, killed in a duel with Droulde. She betrays Droulde to the Citizens of...  Read More >>

In far Cambodia, where the Khmer kings built their mighty temples and vanished from the earth with their millions...  Read More >>

The two cities are Paris in the time of the French Revolution, and London. Dr. Manette, a French physician, having...  Read More >>

Set in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Ivan Turgenev's most cosmopolitan novels. It is an exquisite study of politics and...  Read More >>

Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation,...  Read More >>

After their recent defeat, the hamlets and villages of Derbyshire are no longer ringing with the wild shouts of...  Read More >>

Ars ne Lupin is a witty confidence man and burglar, the Sherlock Holmes of crime. The poor and innocent have nothing...  Read More >>

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Ars ne Lupin is a witty confidence man and burglar, the Sherlock Holmes of crime. The poor and innocent have nothing...  Read More >>

Washington Square is perhaps the only novel in which a man has successfully invaded the feminine field and produced...  Read More >>

Behn's remarkable work in which she analyzes the retribution of breaking the vows, particularly the religious vows...  Read More >>

What more can the second daughter of a tradesman hope to gain in life than becoming the companion of Dowager Duchess...  Read More >>

A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination...  Read More >>

A sinister secret resides on the island owned by a one Dr. Moreau...  Read More >>

The story is set in Hungary and the scene is laid in a village close to the Maros. On this particular fourteenth...  Read More >>