Historique

Great Expectations

de Charles Dickens

"Great Expectations" is the story of the orphan Pip, writing about his life (and attempting to become a gentleman along the way). "Great Expectations" was widely popular and was riddled with many of the themes...

Salammbo

de Gustave Flaubert

"Salammbo" is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage during the third century BCE, immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War....

Silas Marner

de George Eliot

"Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe" is a dramatic novel by George Eliot, her most sophisticated treatments of her attitude to religion. Silas Marner is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern...

Shirley

de Charlotte Bronte

Shirley Keeldar is an orphaned heiress to a fortune, a headstrong, independent and determined young woman. The novel is set in Yorkshire during the industrial depression. The major themes are the explicit historical...

Villette

de Charlotte Bronte

After an unspecified family disaster, Lucy Snowe travels to the city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. Lucy Snowe is a twenty-three...

Home Is the Sailor

de Patrick Taylor

Fans of Patrick Taylor’s bestselling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo.

But there...

People of the Earth

First North Americans #3

de W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear

A sweeping epic of prehistory, People of the Earth brings the true story of the ancestors of today's Native American peoples to life in an unforgettable saga of hardship and passion, of a woman torn between...

People of the Wolf

First North Americans #1

de Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear

Thousands of years ago, small hunting bands crossed the fragile land bridge linking the Eurasian continent to the Americas and discovered a land untouched by humankind. Over the centuries that followed, their...

The Ghosts of Stony Clove

de Eileen Charbonneau

Stony Clove, a little town snuggled in a rugged mountain pass, was cleared and farmed by Dutch settlers one hundred years ago. It was rumored amongst the townsfolk that the solid rock of the area had been forged...

The Four Feathers

de A. W. E. Mason

British guardsman Harry Feversham stuns his friends when, just before he is scheduled to ship off to the Sudan, he quits his regiment. In shocked retaliation for this dastardly act of cowardice, Harry is presented...

Betty Zane

de Zane Grey

Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great grandmother, Betty Zane was Zane Grey's first novel and launched his career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures.

Betty Zane...