The story takes place at sea, near the Gulf of Siam. The young captain is unfamiliar with both his ship and his crew, having only joined their company a fortnight earlier. He soon...

Doctor Thorne begins to establish a medical practice, while Henry seduces Mary Scatcherd, the sister of stonemason Roger Scatcherd. When Scatcherd finds out that Mary has become...

Fin Corveth’s friend Nick is robbed, and an emerald locket is stolen. Murder soon follows, and the only clue to motive is a folded piece of blank paper. Dark clouds are...

Set in southwest England, the novel portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters. Considered a pioneer of romance genre, Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first...

Half-sisters Silver and Athalie Greeves have grown up worlds apart. Silver is a humble, faith-filled young lady; Athalie is a flapper who takes after her socialite mother. When a...

Professor Van Dusen . is a fictional character in a series of detective short stories and two novels by Jacques Futrelle. Some of the short stories were originally published in...

"The Joyful Wisdom," written just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. Here the essentially grave and masculine face of the...

When Lisa Petra realizes that she risks losing her scholarship because she's not doing too well in her Human Anatomy class, she approaches the sexy older professor for extra...

Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in...

Educational version of the famous masterpiece The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. Pasquale Vaudo is a dean professor of English language and literature in high schools, and...