The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the genteel Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present...

"The Dreams in the Witch House" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle. Written in January/February 1932, it was...

Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune. Following his mother’s early death he is soon delivered to the workhouse where he meets the cruel Mr Bumble. In London, Oliver meets...

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel in which we find investigator Sherlock Holmes as the protagonist.Miss  Mary Morstan hires...

The last of Dickens' picaresque novels which exposes selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. The novel was written after...

Once Esther got to the living room, she stood still and let her eyes wander. She could feel her heartbeat doubling up and all that she could think about was nothing but what was...

Nostromo is set in the South American country of Costaguana with a long history of tyranny, revolution and warfare. Costaguana has recently experienced a period of stability under...

Some of the most iconic tales made it into this volume of Fairy Tales for Adults. These stories with universal appeal for generations of all ages bring some of the most memorable...

The Bunner sisters were proud of the neatness of their shop and content with its humble prosperity. It was not what they had once imagined it would be, but though it presented but...

Lermontov's only full-scale novel, which prophetically describes the duel in which he later lost his own life. The hero of the novel, Pechorin is an intense individual, a military...