The Saxons and the Normans fight for power in England during the Reign of King Richard the Lionhearted.
This is a story that evokes rural life in turn of the century New England.
The tale of Jacob Flanders, a lonely young man unable to reconcile his love of classical culture with the chaotic reality of World War I society, unfolds in a series of brief impressions and conversations, internal monologues, and letters.
Joan of Naples is written by A. Dumas Pere
Karl-Ludwig Sand is written by A. Dumas Pere
Scott's magnificent novel recreates the drama and the strange mixture of assurance and profound unease of the age of Elizabeth through the story of Amy Robsart.
When 24-year-old Eric Marshall arrives on Prince Edward Island to become a substitute schoolmaster, he has a bright future in his wealthy family's business. But fate throws in his path a beautiful, mysterious girl named Kilmeny Gordon. Kilmeny cannot speak, and Eric is concerned for and bewitched...
La Constantin is written by A. Dumas Pere.
The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris.
In the historical romance which I have woven of the dramatic events of the life of Jefferson Davis I have drawn his real character unobscured by passion or prejudice. engine of war so terrible in its power that through it five million SForced by his people to lead their cause, his genius created...