Overview :In 1592, dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of cre... Read More
Overview :Narrating from her deathbed, Matilda tells the story of her unnamed father's confession of incestuous love for her, followed by his suicide ... Read More
Overview :In 1794, Captain Walton leads a troubled expedition to reach the North Pole. While their ship is trapped in the ice of the Arctic Sea, the c... Read More
Overview :Die Verwandlung ist eine im Jahr 1912 entstandene Erz hlung von Franz Kafka. Mit einem Umfang von rund 70 Druckseiten handelt es sich um die... Read More
Overview :Wuthering Heights is Emily Bront 's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second editi... Read More
Overview :Taras Bulba's two sons, Ostap and Andriy, return home from an Orthodox seminary in Kiev. Ostap is the more adventurous, whereas Andriy has d... Read More
Overview :Martin Guerre, a French peasant of the 16th century, was at the center of a famous case of imposture. Several years after Martin Guerre had ... Read More
Overview :Jeanne, fille de Simon-Jacques et de la baronne Ad la de, est une jeune aristocrate qui, pour ses dix-sept ans, quitte le couvent pour comme... Read More
Overview :With Her in Ourland begins where its predecessor Herland ends: Vandyck Jennings, his newlywed Herlandian wife Ellador, and the exiled Terry ... Read More
Overview :Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through... Read More
Overview :Die Entstehungszeit dieses unvollendeten Werkes - vom Sommer 1914 bis Januar 1915 - fiel mit pr gnanten Ereignissen im Leben des Autors zusa... Read More
Overview :One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old ... Read More
Overview :"The Nose" is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time, Gogol's works wer... Read More
Overview :Zu Beginn des Romanfragments trifft der Protagonist K. in einem winterlichen Dorf ein, das zur Herrschaft eines Schlosses geh rt. Gefragt, o... Read More
Overview :En 1672, le peuple de Hollande renverse la r publique des fr res Jean et Corneille de Witt pour r tablir le stathouderat et le confier Gui... Read More
Overview :The book's title comes from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, a Dissenter allegory first published in 1678. In that work, "Vanity Fair" refe... Read More
Overview :John Marcher, the protagonist, is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier, who remembers his odd secret: Marcher is... Read More
Overview :The first of Robert E. Howard's great heroes, Solomon Kane is the Puritan adventurer to whom Howard gave a long life of sword and sorcery ad... Read More
Overview :In a shabby New York City side street in the mid-1880s, young Cedric Errol lives with his mother (known only as Mrs. Errol or "Dearest") in ... Read More
Overview :'The Fire of Asshurbanipal' is one of Howard's stories that feature in the Cthulhu Mysthos. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas i... Read More