Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin

MARRY the heroine of this fiction, was the daughter of Edward, who married Eliza, a gentle, fashionable girl, with a kin...

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins, William Collins

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

A Vindication of Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...

Memoirs of Fanny Hill

by John Cleland

I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensible orders: ungracious then as th...

The French Lieutenant's Woman

by John Fowles

AN easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay- Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's ...

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...

A Woman of No Importance

by Oscar Wilde

Lawn in front of the terrace at Hunstanton.

Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss ...

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

Cat Among the Pigeons

by Agatha Christie

ABOUT two months earlier than the first day of the summer term at Meadowbank, certain events had taken place which were ...

Schachnovelle

by Stefan Zweig

Auf dem großen Passagierdampfer, der um Mitternacht von New York nach Buenos Aires abgehen sollte, herrschte die übliche...

Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

Fantastic Mr Fox

by Roald Dahl

Down in the valley there were three farms.

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

I FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me and interminable journey the great midland plain of North America.

The Big Four

by Agatha Christie

I have met people who enjoy a channel crossing; men who can sit calmly in their deck-chairs and, on arrival, wait until ...

Salomé

by Oscar Wilde

SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

In the beginning, the Lord of Beings created men and women, and in the form of commandments in one hundred thousand chap...

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

Была пятая гадзіна зімовай раніцы.

Marc Chagall

by Marc Chagall, Evgenija Petrova