This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction. First published in 1880, this biography explores the life of Lord Byron (1788-1824), one of Britain's greatest poets. Setting...
Giovanni Carmelo Verga (2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist (Verismo) writer, best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily, and...
Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf published in...
Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two...
Ouida ( 1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908) was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la...
Béatrix is an 1839 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence...
Umberto is a Milanese physician now close to retirement. By pure curiosity he investigates the origin of his surname and finds out an ancient noble Tuscan origin. A Ghibelline...
If you like Downton Abbey you will love Barbara Cartland.Beautiful Jasmina Winfield is a thoroughly modern American girl who likes to make her own decisions. A skilled and daring...
‘How could you, Mama? Papa has not even been dead a year!’When the beautiful Lucia Mountford’s mother remarries less than a year after her father’s death on the Titanic,...
Lady Lolita Vernon, daughter of the late Earl of Walcott and Vernon, has run away.Her stepfather, Ralph Piran is forcing her to accept the attentions and perhaps an offer of...