Weltliteratur & Klassiker

Work, Sex and Rugby

Lewis Davies

Young and strong, this novel's protagonist, Lewis, is equally keen on beer and girls and bored in equal measures by his job and by club rugby. He only has one problem: he's a closet romant...

Say Goodbye to the Boys

Mari Stead Jones

A serial killer is on the loose in a sleepy, Welsh seaside town, picking off victims like some people pick cockles...The year is 1947 and three young men have recently been demobbed and are back a...

Sword at Sunset

Rosemary Sutcliff

For fourteen centuries the story of Arthur was a legend, misted over by the tradition of romantic hero-tales. But Arthur was real - a man of towering strength, a dreamer and a warrior who actually...

Prep

Curtis Sittenfeld

Medusa'S Cause

P. E. Zimmerman

Love is immeasurable On an isolated cape high above a churning sea, a mysterious young woman of enchanting beauty enters a lonely temple. Lulled there by inconceivable desire, it is a clande...

Encounter

Joseph W. Ulmer

It is a cold winter day in 1839 as Dark Cloud, a wife of the great Cheyenne hunter Antelope-Dances-in Fire, works to flesh a deer hide before certain snowfall. It is only a few hours later when Da...

The Inheritance

Marianne Perry

The Inheritance tells the story of a family disintegrating from conflicting loyalties in 1900 Calabria, Itlay. The region was subject to earthquakes and tsunamis; the land was harsh and poverty th...

Flush Times and Fever Dreams

Joshua D. Rothman

To Live an Antislavery Life

Erica L. Ball

The World of Jeeves

P.G. Wodehouse

Spring Will Be Ours

Sue Gee

A magnificent reconstruction of Poland and her people from the Second World War to Solidarity From the streets of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, through the lonely dreams of a little Polish boy growing up ...

Keeping Secrets

Sue Gee

Keeping Secrets is the absorbing story of two very different sisters: of their complex relationships with each other, with the men they love, and with their children. Hilda is clever, purposefu...

Like a Bolt

Sarah D'spain / Howard D'spain

In 1881, after a controlled plunge into a river, young Todd Tellier awakes from a lightning-induced coma, and is offered an opportunity to travel around Texas with his Uncle Steve, a part-time ped...

Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Volume I

Louisa May Alcott

Seven Deadly Sins

Martin Rowson

El Milagro Del Comienzo

Gilberto Nieto Aguilar

El milagro del comienzo son las reflexiones de un estudiante normalista, las inquietudes y cuestionamientos de un adolescente que despierta a la vida, y las experiencias de un maestro rural que co...

An Emperor Among Us

David St. John

As cigar smoke hangs heavy in Mark Twains sitting room, the members of the Monday Evening Club eagerly await his presentation, which they think will be the reading of his paper The Decay of the Ar...

Pilates Babel

Lewis Dowell Jr.

The novel " Pilates Babel " is a fictional account of a very real event that took place in an historical period in mankind's distant past. Although the original Babel separated mankind...

Der Hochwald

Adalbert Stifter

Freiherr von Wittinghausen bringt seine beiden Töchter Clarissa und Johanna in einem Holzhaus in der unberührten Natureinsamkeit des Böhmerwaldes am Plöckensteinsee ("Blockensteinsee" ...

Twilight and Moonbeam Alley

Stefan Zweig

In 'Twilight', a fashionable lady is banished from Versailles by the King, and tries to make the best of life on her country estate. Versailles, for all its hollowness, was the o...