Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a “New Woman”. When it was published, the Spectator...

In this novel, Amelia marries William Booth against her mother's desires, and the two must move to London. Fielding explores the issues of married...

Another short story for children by the well-known conversationalist and writer, Thornton W. Burgess. This story revolves around Unc' Billy Possum...

Nancy Dow is a hauntingly beautiful teenage girl who wants to become a musician and singer and who is studying the arts, first in Arlington,...

This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong.

Lamb used Homer’s Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses’s journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a...

Alcestis is the earliest surviving play by Euripides. Alcestis, the devoted wife of King Admetus, has agreed to die in his place, and at the...

Ledscha, living in ancient Egypt, has lost her betrothed and all hope of love. But the gods see otherwise. She now loves a Greek sculptor, who...

Allan Quatermain was the quintessential Victorian English gentleman come African big-game hunter. In this book, the second in the series,...

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin.

Darwin wrote the book, which he entitled...

Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is...