Ernest HemingwayIt has been said of Ernest Hemingway that half the writers of the twentieth century have tried to imitate him and the other half have tried not to. A...

Henry James Eugenia is the morganatic wife of a German prince who is repudiated by her husband in favour of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix she goes...

Anthony Trollope When shrewd and poor Lizzie Greystock marries she is fully aware of her wealthy husband's approaching death. November 19, 1998 by Oxford University Press, USA

Patrick WhiteElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning...

Jonathan Miller and David Pelham An easy to understand, pop up book for teaching the facts of life for children. October 1, 1984 by Viking Adult OS

Edmund Spenser  The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work...

Daoma WinstonA saga of the joys, tragedies, loves, villanies, and heroics of four generations involved with the Fall River Line, a seagoing passenger service between New York and Boston

Author: Joyce Carol Oates It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride...

FA HayekHayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on...

JRR TolkienOne Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkeness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power...

Ellis Peters A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES. In 1137 the head of Shrewsbury Abbey decided to acquire the remains of St Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part...

Ernest Hemingway From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to...