Moll Flanders is a picaresque novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be an autobiographical account of the life of the eponymous heroine, detailing her...
THE YOUNG VISITERSor, Mr. Salteena’s PlanBy Daisy AshfordOriginally written when the author was just nine years old, The Young Visiters is a whimsical and unintentionally...
In a quiet London flat, a man dies suddenly after dinner, and all evidence points to poison. The accused is Harriet Vane, a brilliant and independent woman whose intelligence may...
Like all men of wide and lofty views, he was not exclusive in his press proclivities. He liked a paper as a paper, a pleasant medium of the progress of human reason, or, as he...
Richard Hannay has just returned to London when a frightened stranger arrives at his flat with a story of murder, spies, and a plot that could shake Britain on the eve of war....
In Boyhood, Leo Tolstoy continues the deeply introspective journey begun in Childhood, offering a vivid and honest portrait of adolescence. Through the eyes of young Nikolai,...
In a future without Man... someone else will strive for dominance of Earth...In a future without Man... someone else will strive for dominance of Earth. A war fought by all means,...
In Leaving Eden, the vastness of space becomes a mirror—sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling—in which our ambitions, fears, contradictions, and absurdities are...
Kim is a picaresque novel by English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially from December 1900 to October 1901 and first published in book form in October 1901....
The Pharaoh and the Priest is Bolesław Prus’s monumental historical novel of power, faith, ambition, and political intrigue, set against the grandeur and mystery of ancient...