'Stella Fregelius' explores spiritual and mystical themes in stark contrast to Haggard’s hallmark exotic adventure stories. It is a romantic but nonetheless profound story about...

“I see dead people”. So said the little boy in the Hollywood Blockbuster ‘The Sixth Sense’, starring Bruce Willis. The little girl in Frances Burnett’s ‘The White...

Against the backdrop of the Porteous Riots, one woman must give everything to save her sister. It’s 1763, and there’s pandemonium on the streets of Edinburgh. Innocent...

‘The Letters of Jane Austen’ (1892) is a unique literary treasure that allows readers a peek into the mind of the celebrated and much-loved author, Jane Austen. It is an...

First published at the turn of the century, ‘The Splendid, Idle Forties’ by feminist author Gertrude Atherton is a collection of short stories, all set in California. Romance...

“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”Sir Robert Chiltern is a moral and upstanding politician with a wife who adores...

“The Shot” is a story about a duel between two people, Sylvio and an unnamed Count. The narrative revolves around the shot that did not take place, one that goes on forever....

The last story from the “Mirgorod” cycle, here Gogol presents two landowners deadlocked in an argument over a Turkish rifle, a brown pig, and a goose insult. What results is a...

Poe’s symptomatic need to portray dying or already dead women is evocative of his own failed and miserably spent marriage life to his young cousin. “Morella”, in a way...

A sequel to “The Conspirators; or the Chevalier d’Harmental”, “The Regent’s Daughter” is the second entry on the regency of the young King Louis XV. Much of the story...