Classiques

Four Arthurian Romances - Complete

de Chretien DeTroys

Chrétien's works include five major poems in rhyming eight-syllable couplets. Four of these are complete; Erec and Enide (c. 1170); Cligès (c. 1176), and Yvain, the Knight of the Lion and Lancelot, the Knight...

Five Litter Peppers and How They Grew

de Margaret Sidney

The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew tells how the Peppers live, learn, and play in their little brown house. They are poor, and Mamsie must work constantly to keep the wolf from the door, but their lives...

Don Quixote - Vol. 1

de Miguel de Cervantes

Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western...

Don Quixote - Complete

de Miguel de Cervantes

Published in two volumes, but complete here, a decade apart, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding...

His Last Bow

de Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of...

Sense and Sensibility

de Jane Austen

A work of romantic fiction, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England in 1792 through 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, daughters of their father Henry's...

The Short Stories 1904

de Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince

Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved

international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and

Canada on the world...

The Short Stories from 1902-1903

de Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince

Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved

international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and

Canada on the world...

Shirley

de Charlotte Bronte

The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811-12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the...

She Stoops to Conquer

de Oliver Goldsmith

Wealthy countryman Mr. Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy Londoner, hoping the pair will marry. Unfortunately Marlow is nervous around upper-class women, yet...

Rilla of Ingleside

de Lucy Maud Montgomery

Rilla of Ingleside is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series, but was the sixth of the eight "Anne" novels. This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne, and Gilbert's youngest daughter,...

Right Ho, Jeeves

de P. G. Wodehouse

Right Ho, Jeeves is the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves. It also features a host of other recurring Wodehouse characters, and is mostly...

Riders of the Purple Sage

de Zane Grey

Riders of the Purple Sage tells the story of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome her persecution by members of her church. Throughout most of the novel she struggles with her "blindness" in seeing the...

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

de Samuel Johnson

The plot is simple in the extreme. Rasselas, son of the King of Abyssinia, is shut up in a beautiful valley, "till the order of succession should call him to the throne." He grows weary of the factitious entertainments...

Rainbow Valley

de Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne Shirley has now been married to Gilbert Blythe for 15 years, and the couple have six children: Jem, Walter, Nan, Di, Shirley, and Rilla. The book focuses more on her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister...

Pygmalion

de George Bernard Shaw

Pygamalion tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined...

Pierre and Jean

de Guy de Maupassant

Pierre and Jean are the sons of Gerume Roland, a jeweller who has retired to Le Havre, and his wife Louise. Pierre works as a doctor, and Jean is a lawyer. It recounts the story of a middle-class French family...

Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

de James Hogg

On the surface, this novel is a simple tale of a young man who encounters a shape-shifting devil, an early manifestation of a doppelganger, and the various misadventures that follow. This novel was perhaps the...

Pere Goriot

de Honoré Balzac

Pere Goriot is widely considered Balzac's most important novel. This is the story of the relationship between a doting father and his two adult daughters. Blinded by his love for his children, Pere Goriot can...

Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

de Charles Brockden Brown

Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist follows the life of a young man by the name of Carwin as he realizes his biloquial, ventriloquist talents. Carwin develops this ability to perfection, being able to manipulate...