Ladybird

Fraley’s dear mother has just dies and left Fraley utterly alone in a hostile world. She sets off on a dangerous adventure, unsure of what lies ahead. Her only comforts are...

Brentwood

Marjorie Wetherill had always known she was an adopted child; her adoptive parents, the Wetherills, whom Marjorie loved deeply, had made no secret of it. Their death leaves...

Washington Square

Washington Square by Henry James tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the plain, obedient daughter of the widowed, well-to-do Dr. August Sloper of Washington Square. When a...

Jo’s Boys

Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo’s Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo remains at the...

Musk And Amber

Julian Linchcombe is the remarkable heir to the Earl of Linchcombe’s estate and he has the voice of an angel. When he is taken to the festival of San Januerius in Italy to...

Light

Henri Barbusse’s novel, Light, is about an office worker who, while serving in the army, begins to realize that the imperialist war is a crime.

The Inferno

The Inferno, Henri Barbusse’s 1908 novel, is a brilliant examination of the philosophy of solipsism, which is the idea that knowledge outside of one’s own mind is...

Sir George Alexander And The St. James’ Theatre

Sir George Alexander (1858–1918), born George Alexander Gibb Samson, was an English stage actor, theatre producer and theatre manager. After acting on stage as an amateur he...

The Three Musketeers

Dumas’ most famous novel is set in the 17th century, it concerns the adventures of the young and hotheaded D’Artagnan, who travels to Paris to join the Musketeers of...

The Whiteoak Brothers

In The Whiteoak Brothers, the Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, and while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt...

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