In the second half of the nineteenth century, adventure stories set in strange countries were very popular with British readers. Anthony Hope was one of a group of writers who became well known for…
Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her the love and excitement she expected. She looks for l…
This book brings together some of the best examples of the nineteenth, and early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others are ab…
Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of a lack of money. He withdraws from society and, poor and lonely. He develops a plan to murder a greedy ol…
Cold Mountain is a novel of many levels. It combines a story of war and its effects on the men and women involved in it, a story of love between a soldier and the girl he left at home to wait for h…