S. Henry Berthoud (1804-1891) was a writer of considerable ability, remembered today mostly for his often reprinted collections of folkloric legends from Northern France. Yet, he was a writer who c...więcej »
? An Italian food-themed short story sure to delight fans of Delicious and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and the movies Big Night and Chocolat....więcej »
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and de...więcej »
When John Barton's wife dies, he is forced to raise his daughter, Mary, alone, while he grieves the love of his life. Though he is a hard-working man, John struggles to provide for his family. R...więcej »
Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth ce...więcej »
Peytra Sike is a gifted, but frustrated sculptor. After the masked duke, Jors Ameros, is taken with her and her artwork, he commissions Peytra to carve the mantels in his castle.There, Pe...więcej »
Jean Lorrain, one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement, was a master of the conte cruel. Presented here, for the first time in English, are ten such tales: stories of princes and prin...więcej »
Falling for each other was never part of the plan...Doctor Sage Porter has moved to Marble Falls to be the private physician for a group of men unlike any the ...więcej »
He's a YouTube sensation, making hilarious videos about hunting down monsters in the wilds of Missouri that are too outlandish to be real. Besides, every...więcej »
Harlem, New York, 1925 is a mecca of cultural and creative freedom, where masquerade drag balls are all the rage and the music, dancing, and loose prohibition laws unite people from all walks of...więcej »
Corruption. Power. The clash of god-arcanists rocks the world. Volke Savan is tasked with finding the remaining god-creatures and helping them bond with people...więcej »
Charles Dickens, the foremost British writer, is memorable for his interesting characters and rich plots. He was a social activist who wrote plays and novels during the Victorian period. His best k...więcej »
The old eddas speak of dreki-fabled creatures who haunt the depths of Iceland's volcanoes and steal away fair maidens.Solveig wants none of such myths...więcej »
When I became a nun, I vowed to remain chaste and pure. Then the Berserkers raided the abbey and carried me off. Now I'm their captive, at their mercy. And no amount of prayer will stop the two ...więcej »
You think you are just playing a game online; masterminding the perfect crime. But something is not right.A website inviting players to come up with the perfect crime is the façade for bi...więcej »
Mathilda (1959) is a posthumous novella by English writer and Romantic Mary Shelley. Written as a means of self-distraction following the deaths of her young children in Italy, Mathild...więcej »
First published in 1933, Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein contains three prose pieces written in the stream-of-consciousness style that Stein was famous for.
A modernist ...więcej »