Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife Harriet in the early 1920s. This appears to be...

Novelist Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925), author of Red Pottage and Diana Tempest, writes of escaped criminals, desperate thieves, and the mysteries of a seemingly loving family, in...

"Wuthering Heights" is Emily Brontë's only novel. Written between October 1845 and June 1846 was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis...

The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England, in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting ballads for The...

Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley. In this tale, the magician of the title, Oliver Haddo, a...

Famous Romantic NovelExcerpt from Book:Flood turned his head and smiled into her eyes. He waited a full half-minute before he replied. "No," he said, slowly. "No,...

Plus size pediatrician Jennifer, learns that getting older means making choices to please everyone else, even if it makes her unhappy. She loves her job, but she's scraping...

A collection of short stories from one of the most famous writers of very long novels Leo Tolstoy, including: Ilyas, Little Girls Wiser Than Men, The Coffee-House of Surat. 'For...

When their power nearly runs out, Unit One is desperate to find more Redjus so he can save his eternal love, Unit Two. But will he manage to locate it in time, when he has to...

There was a sharp snapping frost and the curls on Nadenka's temples and the down on her upper lip were covered with silvery frost. She was holding my arm and we were standing on a...