The main character, who is fond of music, being under the heavy pressure of a creative crisis, goes on a journey with her friends to improve her mental and physical health. There she meets an artis...
„A Smile of Fortune” is located on a beautiful island in the Pacific Ocean, on which the narrator, captain docked; ship suppliers are supposedly brothers who have not talked to each oth...
Theos Olwyn, a poet and a lost man, travels to a secluded monastery in search of a man who can take his soul. He finds him in Heliobas, a seer who has given up his parlor sessions for the sake of i...
AD 32. Tyr. Phenicia. Melqart’s cult. Temple prostitution, public executions, victims of newborns.Asherat runs away from home; she joins Jesus’ disciples and takes the name Susann...
Self-deception regarding his wife, inflicted on the good-natured captain of the ship and the like. the willingness to succumb to base men on the part of the „painted woman”. It truly de...
First published in 1860, „Brother Jacob” is a short story about deception, imperial venture, and self-interest by George Eliot in which she explores the relationship between the selfish...
Crushed by a loveless marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harleth seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and altruistic Daniel Deronda. But Deronda, profoundly affected by the...
Behind this rather prim title lies the hilarious fictional diary of a disaster-prone lady of the 1930s, and her attempts to keep her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos. Written w...
Set during the time of the Reform Act of 1832, the story centers on an election contested by Harold Transome, a local landowner, in the „Radical cause”, contrary to his family’s T...
The plot takes place in England. Pastor John Walden, a forty-year-old „man of worship”, is presented as having a cheerful, optimistic personality, athletic build, and strong character. ...
A young woman’s journey of discovery takes her to a world of forbidden passion, savage beauty – and revenge. Spring, 1950. Alexandra de Falla, a half-English, half-Spanish ...
This is the story of a young woman from England at the turn of the 20th century who learns the truth about her parents, and this knowledge sets her life on a path she is not ready for and those aro...
The heroine of this story accompanies a recovering man and his sick daughter on a yacht trip to Scotland, where she discovers her soul mate and changes her life forever. At the beginning of the sto...
Kate works in a successful company as a fashion designer. She has been dating Brian for quite a while now yet suddenly she notices Steve, her colleague from work. Is true love possible in the world...
There has never been a city that would be so inimitable. Most trains, too, completely ignore its existence and pass through it on the way to more useful stops. The story was supposed to strengthen ...
Penned by George Eliot, „Romola” is an intense, gripping historical novel set in 15th-century Italy. In the narrative, Tito, a handsome but scheming Greek opportunist, marries Romola, t...
This book depicts the machinations and problems concerning the royal family and politicians in power in fictional England. A revolutionary conspiracy gathers momentum in an imaginary country ruled ...
During a period of illness, Latimer first discovers he is able to read other peoples’ minds and see visions of the future. Rather than being a gift, this strange phenomenon increasingly becom...
Marie’s skill lies in her powers of observation. She sees how men behave with women, how the rich behave with the poor, how power is based on political machinations, how actors bow to virtuou...
A sequel to extremely popular, largely autobiographical „Diary of a Provincial Lady,” by E. M. Delafield (also known as Mrs Henry de la Pasture), about her life in England in the early ...