Romance
Somehow Good
A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…
The Dead Secret
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins explores the heavy burden of secrets and the choices that shape our lives. At the heart of the story is Sa…
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a keenly observed exploration of love, class, and social expectations in early 19th-century England. At its heart is …
Aurora Floyd
Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…
War and Peace
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…
Sense and Sensibility
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriag…
War and Peace
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, firs…
Green Mansions
"Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest" is a narration of his life story by Abel, a Venezuelan, to a comrade. Once a we…
Miss or Mrs.?
Natalie Graybrooke is in love with her cousin Launcelot Linzie, but engaged to Mr. Turlington, an older man who covets her fortune and whom …
Villette
After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against …
Pauline's Passion and Punishment
Before she wrote Little Women and Little Men, Louisa, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, had this `blood and thunder' thriller (as sh…
La Mare au diable
Sur l'avis de son beau-père, malgré sa réticence, le laboureur Germain, veuf de vingt-huit ans, va se rendre à F…
Chicot the Jester
This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry…
Ann Veronica
Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a "New Woman". When it was published, …
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…
The Battle of Life
While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this…
Black Heart and White Heart
Black Heart and White Heart transports listeners to the tumultuous era of King Cetywayo, where love and cultural conflict intertwine. This p…
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the …
The Innocents
“Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequently they were guilty of holding hands, …
The Pretty Lady
‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christi…