Gregory sighed heavily, threw a last look up at the window, and seeing that everything remained the same there, he mustered up resolution enough to lie down on the fatal plank. At the same time two other serfs, chosen by Ivan for assistants, took him by the arms and attached his wrists to two...
During the time of Waterloo, Amelia Sedley begins a courtship and Becky Sharp utilizes her cleverness to avoid becoming a governess.
The lives of Russian aristocrats become intertwined between the years 1805 and 1812 and during Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
By H.G. Wells - published by Classic eBooks
Set in ancient Rome, Antonia has the misfortune to live during the days when mighty Rome was brought low by the Goths.
Allen Armadale murders the father of his cousin who is also named Allen Armadale, and he eventually confesses to the crime.
Marguerite de Chalusse is upset when an unsolved mystery keeps her from marrying Paul Ferailleur.
An upstanding young man falls in love with a beautiful daughter of a tradesman, but cannot marry her due to her sexual promiscuity.
The Hotel de Perou was one of those refuges, growing scarcer and more scarce every day, where unhappy men and women, who had been worsted in the battle of life, could find a shelter in return for the change remaining from the last five-franc piece.
Cyntherea, a maid for the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe and Edward Springrove, becomes embroiled in a manipulative scheme.