A historical novel set in Tuscany in the 18th century, during the enlightened government of Pietro Leopoldo of Hapsburg Lorraine. Autobiographical memories of the Grand Duchess...

The Sorrows of Satan (1895) is a  Faustian novel by Marie Corelli. It is widely regarded as one of the world's first best-sellers – partly due to an upheaval in the...

Once upon a time in a certain country there lived a king whose palace was surrounded by a spacious garden. But, though the gardeners were many and the soil was good, this garden...

Becka dorea puterea si banii. In schimb, si-a pierdut inima.Becka este o vrajitoare si nu una foarte buna. Blestemata de catre strabunica ei, nu are nici cea mai mica idee cum sa...

When neither the Whigs nor the Tories are able to form a government on their own, a fragile compromise coalition government is formed, with Plantagenet Palliser, the wealthy and...

Silas Marner is one of the characters "suspicious whose whole life is guided by the need to find an external object to which to lean" suddenly robbed of the accumulated...

Ellen is a new aspiring trainee at the Detroit Policy Academy. Unfortunately for her, she's given a choice, infiltrate the largest gang in Detroit or get kicked out of the...

A panoramic novel of eighteenth-century London, Cecilia, subtitled Memoirs of an Heiress, is a novel, about the trials and tribulations of a young upper class woman who must...

The tales and stories in this collection were casually written at different periods and under different influences. As a rule, it may be said that Mary Shelley is best when most...

Denzil Quarrier, a successful, active man, becomes a candidate for Parliament, and, in the moment of triumph, is stricken by the treachery of his best friend, the meaningless...