"The Shadow Line" is a novel written and published by Joseph Conrad in 1917. The story has as its main theme the youth and its end. When the protagonist warns that his...

In a small American town in the 1930s, a poor Jewish couple tries to do its best to make a living. Their child, Zekharia, learns soon how to work honestly and how to save money,...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Thus memorably begins Jane Austen’s Pride...

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...

Boys may love their night out, but nothing's hotter than a girl's night in with only one rule: No Boys Allowed! The Bad Girls of Erotica are leaving the boys out in the...

Predictable alpha male, Scott Worth, bumps into Sara, a former crush, and instantly regrets accepting her invitation to a barbecue. But when he meets Sara’s much younger...

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...

A good morning gets ruined by some reckless idiot who decides that Simon should not drive to work. Simon initially thinks that his neighbor is the one who ruined his car because...

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...

Fish talk is a story about a little fish who is born in a lawyer`s office, behaves like a marionette and finds his way out of the fish tank...A ray of sunlight tricked and slipped...