Wow! We have kicked off 2021 with challenge after challenge. One thing I know that unites us all is our love of music, fashion , film and literature .Happy New...więcej »
Greetings Readers,Is Spring really here? Wow! How time flies when we are partially locked down in this Covid era. But there is light at the end of the tunnel so hang in there a...więcej »
Known for its advances in literature, industrialization, politics, and science, the Victorian era was a prominent time in British history. However, author Lytton Strachey remembers Queen Victori...więcej »
Quentin Durward, an archer and mercenary, gains the favor of Louis XI of France and the love of the beautiful Burgundian heiress, Isabelle de Croye. This is a captivating tale full of act...więcej »
Spanning over a period of sixty-five years, from the 1840s to 1905, The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence follows three generations of the Brangwen family, mapping the change in their romantic r...więcej »
A mysterious stranger, looking for a change in scenery, discovers a small Mormon community where a grown-up Fay Larkin has been taken against her will. Like its predecessor, The Rainbo...więcej »
Another book with a different look at the newness that is coming our way. Has anyone asked you about a "face diaper?" If you need to wear a scarf to hide your smile, make sure you have...więcej »
Daily survival is a battle for Raykin Smythe, a fifteen-year-old cabin boy aboard a Sardonian slave ship. For years, he has learned to stay a second or two ahead of trouble. When the ten-ship a...więcej »
Nine of Chekhov's most powerful and thought-provoking short stories are included here, in the original Russian and in a facing English translation, toget...więcej »
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is one of the most gripping novels in the Russian canon. Often described as a murder mystery in search of a motive, it follows a former student in St. Petersbur...więcej »
The Real Adventure (1916) is a novel by Henry Kitchell Webster. Written at the height of Webster's career as a popular author of magazine serials, The Real Adventure is ...więcej »
I've heard the whispers on campus of what a player Teddy McCallister is. Most girls on campus are vying to be the one, but guys like him don't settle down.<...więcej »
The Red House Mystery (1922) is a detective novel by A.A. Milne. Known more for his series of Winnie-the-Pooh stories and poems for children, Milne also wrote novels and plays for adults,...więcej »
The life of a young law student, Darsie Latimer, is thrown into disarray when he is kidnapped by a man named Hugh Redgauntlet. Taken to an unfamiliar village, Darsie is reunited with his sister,...więcej »
Regiment of Women (1917) is a novel by Winifred Ashton. Written using the pseudonym Clemence Dane, Regiment of Women was Ashton's debut novel and a turning point in her career. Der...więcej »
Hafiz 'Abd al-Ghani ibn 'Abd al-Wahid al-Maqdisi's Reports on the Dajjal (Akhbar al-Dajjal) is a collection of Prophetic narrations that mention the Dajjal, known in Engl...więcej »