Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Capitan Sinfleton recounts the tale of Bob Singleton, a man who goes to sea at the age of twelve, makes a fortune, then…
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with «Satanstoe» and ending with «The Redskins»….
Anne Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bronte literary family. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience. At age of nineteen Anne Bronte left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as…
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. «The Tenants of Malory» is the sensation novel about two feuding families, Verney and Fanshawe, and their ambiguous relationship. Arthur, Lord Verney’s nephew, cannot choose between his feelings to…
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel «Robinson Crusoe», which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Captain Singleton recounts the tale of Bob Singleton, a man who goes to sea at the age of twelve, makes a fortune, then loses…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. «Danger! And Other Stories» is a collection of fascinating short stories like «One Crowded Hour», «A Point of View», «How…
Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) was an Irish satirist, essayist, prose writer and poet, who has found his calling as a cleric of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. «The Journal to Stella» is a collection of sixty-five letters from Jonathan Swift to his friend Esther Johnson, whom he called «Stella» and, according to some reports, was his…
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolifi c and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Jack Tier; or, the Florida Reef is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper. Set during the…
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 —1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Combining detective with gothic romance, «Checkmate» tells the story of a rich man Walter Longcluse, who, through a relationship with Alice Wynderbroke and her family, falls into a whirlpool…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. «The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales» is the second volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like «De…
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. The final novel of Thomas Love Peacock followed the others after a silence of 30 years, its typical Peacockian format intact an idyllic, country house setting, a genial host, many opinionated guests, and a romantic love interest. Like all…
Civil war rages between the native tribes of the Malay straits. Captain Tim Wingard sides with the Rajah Hassim. An English yacht blunders into this confusion and runs aground. When Wingard goes aboard to offer assistance, the crew gives him insolence, not gratitude. He prepares to leave… then sees a woman. She captivates him, literally…
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. «Dutch Courage» is a collection of unique short stories like «Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan», «The Lost Poacher», «An…
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are «Treasure Island» and «The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.» Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. This book includes two wonderful short stories: mysterious and unpredictable «The Sire de…
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like «Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde» and «Treasure Island.» Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. «In the South Seas» is another Stevenson’s traveling memoir,…
The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captains first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted…
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. «The Tenants of Malory» is the sensation novel about two feuding families, Verney and Fanshawe, and their ambiguous relationship. Arthur, Lord Verney’s nephew, cannot choose between his feelings to Margaret…
John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. «The Island Pharisees» takes a critical look beneath the gilded veneer of Edwardian England. Dick Shelton is engaged to Antonia Dennant and his privileged middle-class life seems complete until he meets Ferrand, an enigmatic young vagrant, who begins to shake his complacency and open his eyes…
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. «The Boy in the Bush» is a novel made in collaboration with an Australian writer Mollie Skinner. Set in Western Australia, the book…
The novel Wyandotte arrived at a time when a patriotic mythology about the American Revolution was developing, and Coopers somber tale of the sufferings of an isolated family in upstate New York during the Revolution was not congruent with the celebratory stories then being told. As Edgar Allen Рое observed, in Maud Meredith Cooper creates…
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Miles Wallingfordis a classic Cooper’s sea adventure novel about merchant mariners and serves as a sequel to…
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Collected Tales II from master storyteller includes two stories: Little Flower and Only a Dream,…
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel «Moby-Dick.» Partly based on the author’s experience, «Redburn» is a fascinating coming-of-age story of a young sailor Wellington Redburn, who decides to leave New York in search of a better life in Liverpool, England. It…
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiance is forced to take an extended trip to Canadas drier climes in order to recover his…
Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America. The story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist…
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Michael, Brother of jerry tells the story of Irish terrier Michael, born in the Solomon Islands. The dog works as…
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel «Robinson Crusoe», which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. A New Voyage Round the World is a narrative fiction of a merchant ship’s captain who sails east via the Cape of Good Hope,…
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. The Strength of the Strong and The Turtles of Tasman are collections of beautiful short stories among which there are…
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. «Ghostly Tales» is a tremendous collection of four chilling stories: «Schalken the Painter», «An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street», «An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted…
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. The Marble Faun is Hawthornes awesome novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on American morality. Hawthorne is concerned here with the nature of transgression and guilt. A murder, motivated by love, affects not…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. «Tales of the Camp» is a collection of fascinating military stories, set in the prime days of the British Empire….
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Mudfog Papers is his collection of sketches that describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog. It also describes the delusions of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble, his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show and the meetings of its Society for the…
