"Cranford" is a short story written by Elizabeth Gaskell in 1851. The protagonist is the young lady Mary Smith who narrates in first person the daily lives of some...
A Simple Soul
A Simple Soul is a literary work written by Gustave Flaubert in 1877. It’s the story of Madame Aubain who was envied by her neighbors for her maid Felicite . Felicite worked...
To Let
To let is the final novel of the trilogy Forsyte. The story is a continuation of the struggle between the two factions within that family: now the shadow of the past comes back to...
The Guermantes Way
After the first two volumes of "In search of lost time", are now "The Guermantes way" where Proust tells the brilliant Parisian life of late 19th century...
The Armourer's Prentices
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) was an English novelist known for her huge output, now mostly out of print. The story, published in 1884, is set during the reign of Henry VIII....
England's Antiphon
George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Though no longer a household name, his works (particularly his fairy tales and fantasy novels)...
Margaret Ogilvy
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...
Annals Of A Quiet Neighbourhood Our
A work of faith and hope, repentance and redemption, this novel, set in Marshmallows, a rural location in Victorian England, is the story of a young vicar, Harry Walton, beginning...
The Mayor Of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels...
Ruth
Ruth is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in three volumes in 1853. The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a...
