Avinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619 – 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine...

Eudora has achieved her immediate goal, and finds herself in a bit of a loss. She wades her way through her lovers trying to come up with something. Will she figure out what to do...

Kevin was almost finishing his beer when he felt a slight touch on his shoulder. And when he looked over, his jaw almost hit the floorboards. He immediately knew that he wanted to...

Theresa was really in need of money. When she got an opportunity to work as a housemaid for a rich family, she did not want to miss it. While the money was good, she had to make...

A tough lawman is tracking an outlaw. But the man he believes to be a cold-hearted killer may well have been framed, or he might be the helpless victim of a miscarriage of...

The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they...

Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the...

In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age is a collection of poems by W. B. Yeats in which he eschewed his previous Romantic ideals and preference for...

Anne’s House of Dreams begins with Anne and Gilbert's wedding, which takes place in the Green Gables orchard. After the wedding, they move to their first home together, which...

In the dead of night Hutter and March sneak into the camp of the besieging members of the Huron tribe in order to kill and scalp as many as they can. Their plan fails, and Tom...