Fiction and Related items

Plato was a philosopher in Ancient Greece.

Cranford is a witty portrait of small town life in early-Victorian England.

Los pazos de Ulloa es una novela de Emilia Pardo Bazán (1852-1921) publicada en 1886.

Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements.

Decouvrez ou redecouvrez l'histoire de Charles Bovary qui, apres avoir suivi ses etudes dans un lycee de province, s'etablit comme officier de sante et se marie a une riche veuve.

The Journal of Julius Rodman is a fictionalised account of the first travels across the Western Wilderness, over the barrier of the Rocky Mountains.

In a tale of ancient evil, Bram Stoker creates a world of lurking horrors and bizarre denizens: a demented mesmerist, hellbent on mentally crushing the girl he loves; a gigantic kite raised to rid the land of an unnatural infestation of birds, and which receives strange commands along its string; and all the while, the great white worm slithers below, seeking its next victim.

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, in which he writes of his theories of evolution by natural selection, is one of the most important works of scientific study ever published.

Through the Magic Door (1907) is an essay by Arthur Conan Doyle: his subject is the charisma and charm of books.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, pere.

This compilation contains the following classic children's novels:- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain- Just so Stories by Rudyard Kipling - The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang - Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson - The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald - Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin - The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens - Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) by J.

First published serially in Gilman's magazine the Forerunner in 1909-10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiance to start a housecleaning business.

Le professeur Lidenbrock trouve un document dans lequel il apprend l'existence d'un volcan éteint dont la cheminée pourrait le conduire jusqu'au centre de la Terre.

Cheri-Bibi reussit a s'evader du bagne de Cayenne en compagnie d'un autre condamne, Palas.

Here is one of those "forgotten" works.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American poet who wrote an incredible amount of poems.

When Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, the apes adopt him and raise him as their own.

This edition includes all the Poe's Works of Poetry & Fiction that are included in the Poe Canon:- Poems (Alone, The Raven, etc.

This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.

First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, pere.

A collection of essays about writing: "On some technical elements of style in literature", "The morality of the profession of letters", "Books which have influenced me", "A note on realism", "My first book: 'Treasure Island'", "The genesis of 'the master of Ballantrae'" & "Preface to 'the master of Ballantrae'".

In an isolated town called Vondervotteimittis (wonder-what-time-it-is), the punctilious inhabitants seem to be concerned with nothing but clocks and cabbage.

American novelist Booth Tarkington's life spanned the period 1869-1946, giving him a unique insight into the United States as its culture underwent a number of rapid changes.

"The Island of the Fay," is classified as an example of Poe's "plate articles"--brief essays that were written specifically to satisfy the taste of his diverse readers.

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

Near their residence, Branksome, is The Cloomber Hall, for many years untenanted.

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific.

Professor Lidenbrock ist einer der angesehensten Geologen der Welt.

Published serially in the author's monthly magazine, Forerunner, volume 7 (1916).

While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself.

Here you will find the complete novels and stories of Rudyard Kipling in the chronological order of their original publication.

The Sphinx is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe about a man who decides to visit a relative living near the Hudson River north of New York City for two weeks during a cholera epidemic that occurred during the summer of 1832.

Set in late November 1827, the tale is begun by an unidentified narrator whose story is the loose outer frame for the central tale of Augustus Bedloe, a wealthy young invalid whom the narrator has known "casually" for eighteen years yet who still remains an enigma.

The Queen of Crime.

Vladimir Petrovich Voldemar, a 16-year-old, is staying in the country with his family and meets Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasyekina, a beautiful 21-year-old woman, staying with her mother, Princess Zasyekina, in a wing of the manor.

The Age of Innocence centers on one society couple's impending marriage and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness.

Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter.

Weisse NächteEin empfindsamer Roman(Aus den Erinnerungen eines Träumers)Autor: Fjodor Michailowitsch DostojewskiOriginaltitel: Belye nociGeschrieben: 1849Deutsche Übersetzung: Alexander EliasbergÜbersetzungsjahr: 1881

"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a science fiction short story by American writer H.

Here you will find the complete novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the chronological order of their original publication.

Un jeune avocat, naif et fauche, est charge de defendre un aventurier redoutable.

Great modern American supernaturalist brilliantly surveys history of genre to 1930s, summarizing, evaluating scores of books, including works by Poe, Bierce, M.

"The Island of the Fay," is classified as an example of Poe's "plate articles"--brief essays that were written specifically to satisfy the taste of his diverse readers.

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.

Die belgische Kleinstadt Quiquendone, besteht seit 800 Jahren, hat 2393 Einwohner und liegt 15,25 km sudostlich von Brugge in Flandern an der Vaar, einem Nebenfluss der Schelde.

A la meme epoque, il y avait a Ferrare une jeune damoiselle du nom de Valeria.

" 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.

'In Homespun' is a collection that was originally published in 1896, and the stories are set in the villages of South Kent and East Sussex that Nesbit knew well.

La Galatea suele considerarse como una novela pastoril.