The Greatest Historical Novels: Henryk Sienkiewicz Edition gathers the Polish master's sweeping reconstructions of antiquity and the seventeenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, including the heroic world associated with his Trilogy and the Roman-Christian drama of Quo Vadis.
Mam'zelle Guillotine returns to the perilous world of the French Revolution that made Baroness Orczy famous, setting aristocratic courage and clandestine rescue against the ritualized violence of the Terror.
El día que cayeron los ángeles es una novela que nos sumerge en los mitos antiguos, explorando la historia de los ángeles caídos y los Nephilim desde una perspectiva hermética y mitológica.
Melmoth the Wanderer is a culminating achievement of the Gothic tradition, a vast, labyrinthine novel of nested narratives, spiritual terror, and metaphysical temptation.
'Delightfully subversive, I loved it' REDThe darkly funny new novel from Polari Prize-shortlisted author Crystal Jeans, inspired in part by Dickens' Great Expectations.
Mary Shelley's Valperga; or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca is a historical romance that reimagines fourteenth-century Italy through the conflict between political ambition and ethical responsibility.
With Fire and Sword, the first volume of Henryk Sienkiewicz's celebrated Trilogy, dramatizes the mid-seventeenth-century Cossack uprising led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The author captures the intrigue and danger of the royal court during the time of Mary, Queen of Scots, through the eyes of a young woman, Marie Hepburn.
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is a vast moral, social, and spiritual epic centered on Jean Valjean, an ex-convict whose pursuit of redemption unfolds amid poverty, law, revolution, and grace in nineteenth-century France.
Huck Finns mythic adventuresand childhoodabruptly end when he steps off his raft into Hurricane KatrinaHuck Finn and Jim float on their raft across a continuum of shifting seasons, feasting on a limitless supply of fish and stolen provisions, propelled by the currents of the mighty Mississippi from one adventure to the next.
Der Band 'Alexandre Dumas: Historische Romane, Abenteuergeschichten und Biografien' präsentiert eine vielfältige Sammlung von Werken dieses berühmten französischen Autors.
In 'Das Halsband der Königin', einem historischen Roman von Alexandre Dumas, wird die wahre Geschichte um ein kostbares Halsband, das Frankreich in den 1780er Jahren erschütterte, meisterhaft dargestellt.
Die Anthologie 'Historische Romane aus der Zeit des deutsch-französischen Krieges' versammelt eine eindrucksvolle Auswahl literarischer Werke von Emile Zola, Karl May und Oskar Meding.
Anatole France's Die Götter dürsten ist ein faszinierendes literarisches Werk, das die Geschichte von Lucius, einem jungen römischen Edelmann, erzählt, der durch einen Fluch in einen Esel verwandelt wird.
In 'Die bekanntesten Werke von Robert Louis Stevenson' werden Leser von einer Sammlung der beliebtesten Werke des Schriftstellers in die Welt des Abenteuers und der Fantasie eingeführt.
James Fenimore Cooper's Ultimate Collection is a comprehensive anthology of the works of this prolific American author, known for his historical romances and adventure novels set in the American frontier.
Guy de Maupassant's 'Ball of Fat' (Boule de Suif) is a poignant and satirical short story that delves into the social and moral complexities of human nature.
In Victor Hugos Buch "Ein Doppelquartett" taucht der Leser in eine raffiniert gestaltete Geschichte ein, die von vier einzigartigen Liebespaaren erzählt wird.