Frederick Baron Corvo One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the...

RS Surtees Soapy Sponge's ruthless pursuit of his passion for fox-hunting at the expense of others, brings him into contact with a Dickensian gallery of observed characters, from Dukes to...

Francis Leopold McClintock January 1, 1998 by Konemann

Author: Thomas Hardy Forced by her parents' ambitions among her wealthy D'Urberville cousins, Tess Durbeyfield attracts the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and discarded, she finds work as a milkmaid, and her...

Fredrico Garcia Lorca In these three plays, García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on...

George Bernard Shaw Experience the works of George Bernard Shaw with Arms and the Man & John Bull's Other Island, two classic plays set in the late 19th century. This...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi "Who bloodied the Star of the Argeads?Who killed my father?"Continuing the epic saga of Alexander the Great, The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes Alexander's quest to conquer Asia, the...

John Galsworthy John Galsworthy OM (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is viewed as one of the first writers of the Edwardian era; challenging in his works some...

Author: Saul Bellow Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He...

Author: DH Lawrence With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published...

Author: Paul Finkleman Perhaps no other Supreme Court decision has had the political impact of Dred Scott v. Sandford . Using a variety of documents that reflect regional opinions and...

Sir Walter ScottWith an Introduction and Notes by David Blair. From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most...