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Everybody in The Lancashire village of Riggan is talking about Joan Lowrie, and who could blame them? She's as beautiful as she is kindhearted and strong willed. For years she's endured the daily beatings...
Accused of a murder he didn't commit, an innocent man seeks refuge in the Canadian wilderness. Can he prove his innocence before it's too late?When a man bravely stands up to a bully, he becomes the victim...
Orphan Anna's life is changed for the better when she inherits an estate from her maternal uncle. Kind and intelligent, Anna decides to pass on some of her wealth by setting up a home for twelve women...
It is often the lot of the creative individual to not be appreciated during their lifetime. While alive, Walt Whitman endured countless campaigns to ban his book of poems, 'Leaves of Grass', on the basis...
The Custom of the Country (1913) is a scathing critique of American upward mobility, as told through the journey of overindulged Undine Spragg. She moves from Apex City to New York and then Paris in pursuit...
´The Monk´ is a frightening, erotic, horror story about Ambrosio, a monk torn between his vows to God and the temptations of the Devil. This is a gripping, gothic tale about greed, pride, and lust, as...
Many consider 'Anna Karenina' to be the greatest novel of all time. A profound and exhaustive exploration of Russian life and the human condition. Tolstoy creates one of the most complex heroines in literature...
With a subtitle like "A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" you would be forgiven for thinking that this book is an antidote to joy, and when on top of that, you discover that Dred is not in fact Dredd -...
The conference of European Nations is taking place in The Hague. Mr John P. Dunster, an American, is travelling to the conference with important information relating to the seemingly inevitable outbreak...
Timid Caroline Helstone could not be any more opposite to the lively Shirley Keeldar. Nor could their lives be any more dissimilar. Whilst Shirley has just inherited a local estate, Caroline is trapped...
Mary Shelley was ahead of her time - arguably by 200 years.For when her novel 'The Last Man' was published in 1826 with a plot featuring a deadly global pandemic, the public was not impressed.In modern...
Stirling Deane is a rich man, thanks to his discovery and eventual sale of the Little Anna gold mine in South Africa. Many years later an unwelcome visitor from Deane's past shows up with the deeds to...
Who hasn't dreamt of discovering that they're the secret heir to a great fortune? Temple Barholm, or simply T. Tembarom for short, never did. As an orphan growing up on the mean streets of early 20th...
Set in Wiltshire, the compassionate yet stubborn Vicar Frank Fenwick and his wife Janet are active members within their local community. They soon find themselves caught up in a range of crises; from...
In this 1866 Anthony Trollope novel, heroine Clara Amedroz faces a bleak future. Her father's fortune has been squandered on her wastrel of a brother, leaving Clara destitute with no money and no inheritance...
Witty socialite Lily Bart has expensive tastes. Unfortunately, she does not have the social status to match. So far she has managed to get by on 'old money' and has become accustomed to a certain level...
One of E. Phillips Oppenheim's earlier novels, 'A Monk of Cruta' follows the story of wealthy Englishman Paul de Vaux, witness to a murder on the Mediterranean island of Cruta. He finds himself caught...
One of Anthony Trollope's later tales, 'Is He Popenjoy?' is a comic novel which deals with themes of inheritance and illegitimacy. The novel centres around the contested inheritance of Manor Cross, a...
'Count Robert of Paris' is Walter Scott's penultimate novel from his celebrated 'Waverley' series. It is a historical novel set in Constantinople during the First Crusade. The story revolves around the...
"He would make a lovely corpse."Martin Chuzzlewit is an old rich man with a handful of relatives just waiting for him to die so they can inherit his money. But old Chuzzlewit has no intention of kicking...
Young heiress Jeanne de la Mesurier has returned to London to re-join her stepmother, following a childhood in a French convent where she has been since her father's death. Despite her high status young...
When a family catastrophe strikes, Lucy Snowe leaves England to teach English in a small Belgian town. Immediately after arriving in Villette, Lucy is drawn into the town's charm, adventure, and romance....
Although written after 'The Companions of Jehu,' 'The Whites and the Blues' details events leading up to the first book.It follows the fortunes of young Charles Nodier, who arrives in Strasbourg to study...
In George Eliot's singular "Romona", one woman defies convention to forge her own path through Renaissance-era Florence. As the story begins, the city's Medici dynasty is nearing collapse, and a religious...
Maud Ruthyn is just seventeen when a tragic event leaves her orphaned and sent to live with her mysterious Uncle Silas. Alone inside the walls of Bartram-Haugh, Maud soon begins to realise her uncle is...
Auctioneer Alfred Burton's life is turned upside-down following a miraculous encounter in an empty house. Burton finds himself unable to speak, see, or think anything but the truth – with far reaching...
'The Dead Letter' follows the brutal murder of Henry Moreland as he waits to board a New York train on the way to see his fiancé. He is fatally stabbed in the neck and his body isn't found until the next...
Set in Britain shortly after the end of the Russo-Japanese war, 'The Illustrious Prince' provides a fascinating insight into the political tensions of the time. The story centres around Prince Maiyo –...
Sam Appleby pays a weekend visit to Sycamore Ridge, Dan Wheeler's Connecticut estate. His intentions are not innocent, however, as they are old political rivals, and Appleby wants Wheeler's support for...
First published in 1861 'Tales of all Countries' is Anthony Trollope's first collection of short stories and includes some of his most-loved stories set all around the world. Works include 'La Mère Bauche'...
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