"The Masterpiece", as it is entitled in English, is a fictionalised account of the Impressionist circle around Paul Cezanne. Zola, who had become an eminent art critic,...
Bones Being Further Adventure
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright. His stories show all the attitudes of their time - colonial and...
The Young Visiters
“The Young Visiters”(1919) is a short “society novel” written by Miss Daisy Ashford at the age of nine. Its child's view of high society (dukes and...
St.ives
St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch.The book...
Meri-loquizing In An Illusionteque: I Suffer From A Complex Of Interiority / Collection Of Entertaining Illusions
A series of seemingly unrelated sensations, connected by a thread fluctuating between prose and poetry. ”Meri-loquizing in a toyteque” is a collection of pictures taken with...
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven, And Other Poems
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) was an American poet. His exuberant recitation of some of his work led some critics to compare it to jazz poetry despite his persistent...
Sentimental Tommy
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, the child of a family of small-town weavers, and best remembered...
Enoch Arden, &c.
Enoch Arden is a narrative poem published in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, during his tenure as England's poet laureate. The story on which it was based was provided to...
Byron
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction. First published in 1880, this biography explores the life of Lord Byron (1788-1824), one of Britain's greatest poets. Setting...
