Classic fiction: general and literary

Hardy's masterpiece traces a poor stonemason's ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin.

Joseph Conrad was a British author who is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature.

"The Imp of the Perverse" is a short story by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe.

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, pere.

"The Power of Words" is a philosophical dialogue written by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work.

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Suite du roman De la Terre a la Lune.

Jeune garcon de ferme, Flemming vit la guerre de Secession sous forme de nouvelles et de comptes rendus heroiques de batailles.

L'opera, da molti considerata il suo primo capolavoro, fu nella sua prima edizione pesantemente rimaneggiata da Edward Garnett (a cui peraltro è dedicata) che ne cancellò un'ottantina di brani, circa un decimo della lunghezza.

My Lady Ludlow is a long novella (over 77,000 words).

Seul et triste, Sanine voit approcher la vieillesse et se souvient.

" Plus profondement je rentre en moi-meme, plus attentivement j'examine toute ma vie passee, et plus je me convaincs de la rigoureuse verite de cette expression.

This book contains the complete novels of Lew Wallace - The Fair God - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - The Prince of India; or, Why Constantinople Fell

When a young pair of newlyweds settle down into a small cottage in a quiet village, they look forward to a pleasant, pastoral life of domestic bliss.

Par une chaude journee d'ete, a Paris, deux hommes, Bouvard et Pecuchet, se rencontrent et font connaissance.

The final volume of Remembrance of Things Past chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M.

The narrator, an elderly lawyer who has a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, title deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.

Never had he felt such weariness of body and of spirit.

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a spy for Charles II, a playwright, poet, and novelist, and the first English woman to make a living from writing.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding households.

"Eleonora" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842 in Philadelphia in the literary annual The Gift.

Four Beasts in One by classic Romantic/Gothic author Edgar Allan Poe.

Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the 'Roaring Twenties'.

Joseph Joséphin, surnommé Rouletabille, est un personnage de roman policier créé par Gaston Leroux dans son roman Le Mystère de la chambre jaune publié en 1907.

Randolph Carter dreams three times of a majestic sunset city, but each time he is abruptly snatched away before he can see it up close.

"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

nice, moody, horror story.

The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work.

The story's title character is a man who somehow always seems to get what he wants.

Un groupe de naufrages d'un millier de personnes se retrouve sur l'ile Hoste, pres du Cap Horn.

One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries across the Middle East and South Asia.

"The Power of Words" is a philosophical dialogue written by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare, originally classified as a comedy, though now often counted as one of his problem plays, so-called because they cannot be easily classified as tragedy or comedy.

Moumou: L'histoire de Gerasime, le geant muet.

The Troll Garden is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1905.

The story concerns a family who move to a house near the railway after the father is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians.

Roudine est admis dans le salon de Daria Lassounska.

An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.

A lone traveler seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man.

X-ing a Paragrab was written in the year 1849 by Edgar Allan Poe.

Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, takes a room in the Witch House, a house in Arkham thought to be accursed.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare from early in his career.

The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars.

A gentle tale of romance and art from a noted children's author .

A través de un personaje ficticio (el viejo marinero "Marlow"), Conrad describe una travesía por el río Congo en busca del señor "Kurtz" que es el jefe de una explotación de marfil.

The plot of the novel is based very loosely on the real-life activities of the Molly Maguires and, particularly, of Pinkerton agent James McParland.

An epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

Noch hatte Syriens sengende Sonne nicht ihren hochsten Punkt am Horizont erreicht, als ein Ritter des Roten Kreuzes, der seine ferne Heimat im Norden verlassen und sich dem Kreuzfahrerheere in Palastina angeschlossen hatte, langsam uber die Sandsteppen hin ritt, die in der Nachbarschaft des Toten Meeres oder, wie es auch heit, des Asphaltsees liegen, worein sich die Gewasser des Jordans ergieen, ohne wieder Abfluss zu finden.