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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised...

he Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy...

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper is a historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary...

The Masnavi I Ma’navi by Rumi  also written Mathnawi, or Mathnavi, is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi. The Masnavi is one of the most influential...

Jim Bowie is on a Quest for Vengeance—and the Lost Treasure of Jean Lafitte. Famous knife fighter James Bowie wants a seat in Congress. But to win it he needs money—and lots of it. When an old pirate...

On the surface, the Circus of Dreams travels around the Continent of Eiliron entertaining the people of the seven kingdoms with their frivolity and sleights of hand.  But beloved ringmaster and head...

In this third and final book novel emerges a new teen villain, Darla. When her father, Shadow Claw, is finally captured, an enraged Darla, unable to help and left with no other choice, makes her way into...

In Tenby, a popular holiday resort in Wales, freelance journalist Sarah Brighton investigates the discovery of the skeleton of a young woman whose death dates back forty years. With the help of Nora Taylor,...

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel....

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens is the final novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's...

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the...

Elentlessly the Humane Killer murders handicapped and sick people whose lives in the eyes of his clients are not worth living. At the end, the killers justification is outrageous and plausible at the...

This is the story of an encounter that seems accidental at first, but ultimately, reveals to be the hidden side of the same coin. Neith is a mysterious Nubian who ignited the peaceful life of Jimmy in...

The book is about a woman who, in the period 1981 to 1995, moves her residence not less than 36 times. Is it an obsession, asks George Manus in the book, and is even in doubt, even though he has been...

Richard Pages is simultaneously a monster and an angel; a perpetrator and a victim. The fiction is the case presentation of this Richard Pages, which means, the narrator is the main character in the story....

No one escaped the Darkness alive. The Darkness had come. An evil scourge that sucked the life out of everything, leaving entire cities, countries and continents dead in its wake. Only one city remained,...

The spaceship 'Gateway' is heading for an earth-like planet, which Earthlings have given the working title of ‘New Earth One’. Initially people thought it was an uninhabited world (apart from any possible...

--- The most shocking book in the history of archery --- If you want to know the truth, you must read his book. Straight forward, clear-cut, unbending. Greek or Roman mythology, legends, folk tales,...

"There where I stood … I awoke to the beauty of the realm I wandered, and yet death seemed to be hovering above me the deeper I dared to go." When traveling tribes happen on a vast, until then unruled...

Laura Forster´s doing it again. The third volume follows her, with some anticipation, to the Channel Islands, in the Bay of St. Malo. Here, she is busy unveiling a dark secret ultimately harking back...

A sudden and unexpected phone call changes the life of the protagonist, bringing him back to his great passion: the study of dolphins and their language. The opportunity to take part in a scientific expedition...

The Unparalleled Invasion is a rare political anticipation short story written by Jack London and first published in McClure's in July 1910 and later in the book The Strength of the Strong (New York,...

A British medical student fights for survival after an apocalypse unleashed by microbes from Mars and follows a radio message promising food and shelter for all. He fights his way through countries and...

Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in...

Dracula is an Gothic horror novel which tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse. Dracula ist ein Vampir-Horror-Roman,...

In a New York hospital a person, who never went missing, awakens after a dreadful event. All memories of a previous life are gone. By pure coincidence the closest confidant the victim will have, is a...

On a brilliant summer's day, a wedding is celebrated at Wildegg Castle that all those in attendance had been joyously anticipating. The next morning, however, brings a rude awakening, when a female corpse...

In the small town Westhabit, where nothing of importance ever seems to happen, four boys go on a trip to the local lake on the edge of town. This is where things take a turn for the worse, as one of the...

He is somewhat over fifty, a long-faced gentleman with sandy-grey hair and a slither of side whiskers that mercifully distract attention from his large outstanding ears. A high and flat-crowned bowler...

106 days by wheelchair on a cruis ship around the world