Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman Des Grieux and...
On The Eve
An upper-class Russian woman falls for a Bulgarian revolutionary in the summer of 1853, the eve of the devastating war that set the Russian empire against the Ottoman, British and...
The Possessed
A fictional town descends into chaos as it becomes the focal point of an attempted revolution, orchestrated by master conspirator Pyotr Verkhovensky. A mysterious aristocratic...
Helen With The High Hand
In the Five Towns human nature is reported to be so hard that you can break stones on it. Yet sometimes it softens, and then we have one of our rare idylls of which we are very...
The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
Ivan Ilyich, a high court judge, becomes seriously ill and faces a long and gruelling battle with death. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is more than a story about death, however. It...
The Maestrale Voice
Nunzio Russo’s The Maestrale Voice could be defined as a painting, rather than a novel. The author’s delicate pen gently describes a century of Sicily, specifically...
Bleak House
Bleak House is one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story...
A Widow's Tale And Other Stories
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant ( Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs....
Nine Unlikely Tales
Original tales and stories from Edith Nesbit to stimulate your imagination with most enigmatic and mysterious creatures including the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a...
The Wanderer: Female Difficulties
Juliet Granville tries to become self-sufficient, but her story reveals many difficulties of a woman in her friendless situation. Women take advantage of her economically and men...
