For once, wedding planner Julia thinks a reception will go smoothly. Then the bride's heirloom diamond and gold engagement ring mysteriously vanishes. The police think they know...

A mermaid comes ashore on the southern coast of England feigning a desire to become part of genteel society under the alias Miss Doris Thalassia Waters. The mermaid's real design...

Meet Onegin, a dandy from Saint Petersburg, about 26. An arrogant, selfish and world-weary cynic. One day he inherits a landed estate from his uncle where he strikes up a...

There are more than 30 million Spanish speakers in America alone and about 400 million in Europe – and there is a massive increase in the usage of this language all over the...

Hung Lou Meng ,or The Dream of the Red Chamber, also called The Story of the Stone, composed by Cao Xueqin, is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was written...

Adventure tells about the confrontation between a man who finds himself alone in front of a plantation - harassed by blacks cannibals - and a bold, independent and liberated...

The Life of General GaribaldiTranslated by Theodore Dwight Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807 - 1882) was an Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the...

In this continuing sequel to The Three Musketeers, d'Artagnan discovers Belle-Isle is being fortified and the engineer ostensibly in charge is Porthos. The blueprints show Aramis'...

The Star Rover is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket). It is a story of reincarnation. A framing story is told...

David Herbert Lawrence's novel Kangaroo was written and published in 1923. The environment is New Wales, and a writer (Richard Lovat Somers) embarks on a journey with his wife...