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Study of a Woman

You know that feeling when you have just sent a text or an email to the wrong person? Well, in the 19th century the equivalent was a wrongly-directed letter - and there is no 'dele ...


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The Lily of the Valley

Felix was rejected as a child by his mother and those scars never fully heal.In a book with great emotional depth, Honore de Balzac explores Felix' two major adult relationships wi ...


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Sons of the Soil

'Vive la counter-revolution!'In 'Sons of the Soil', Balzac tells an extraordinary story of gentry and peasants, complacency and corruption, jealousy and revenge. And it has a conte ...


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El Verdugo

There are dilemmas - and then there are dilemmas. Juanito Leganes faces the sort of choice that is beyond our worst nightmares.It comes after his father, Marquis of the Spanish tow ...


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The Vendetta

Fans of 'The Godfather' trilogy and 'The Sopranos' will know a thing or two about vendettas.In Honore de Balzac's ´The Vendetta´, tragic consequences are laid bare. What begins as ...


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The Prussian Terror

Set during the war between Austria and Prussia in 1866, ‘The Prussian Terror´ is a gritty, historical adventure novel. While the story graphically describes the horrors and effects ...


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How the Two Ivans Quarrelled

The last story from the "Mirgorod" cycle, here Gogol presents two landowners deadlocked in an argument over a Turkish rifle, a brown pig, and a goose insult. What results is a play ...


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The She-Wolves of Machecoul

Set against the backdrop of the Paris Uprising of 1832, ‘The She-Wolves of Machecoul’ is dripping with political intrigue, sinister plots, and knuckle-cracking villains. However, a ...


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The Whites and the Blues

Although written after ‘The Companions of Jehu,’ ‘The Whites and the Blues’ details events leading up to the first book.It follows the fortunes of young Charles Nodier, who arrives ...


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The Dead

The final story in Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’ collection, ‘The Dead’ tells the story of Gabriel Conroy and his wife, Gretta. While at a Christmas party hosted by his aunts, Gretta tells t ...


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Tyynen meren rannikolta

Eletään vuotta 1896 Astoriassa, Yhdysvalloissa. Columbia-joen suulla sijaitseva Astoria on hyvä kalapaikka, ja suurin osa ihmisistä saa elantonsa kalastuksesta. Moni alueella asuva ...


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Linnaisten kartanon viheriä kamari

Romanttista kauhua vuodelta 1859!Littowin aatelissuku asuttaa hienoa Linnaisten kartanoa. Huhun mukaan suvun päälle on langetettu kirous, joka toteutuu suvun 13. polven aikana. Tar ...


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Ferragus eli Salaliittolaisten päällikkö

Kuka pettää ja ketä? Vai pettääkö kukaan?Eletään 1800-lukua. Kun nuori upseeri Auguste de Maulicoir näkee Pariisin kaduilla kaukaa ihastuksensa Clémencen, hän yllättyy toden teolla ...


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Tur

Efter 61 dagar till sjöss glider ett fartyg sakta in mot Oceanens Pärla. Den tropiska ön har ett gott rykte om sig. Sockerodlingarna håller högsta kvalitet och invånarna tar sitt l ...


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The Beetle

‘The Beetle’ is Richard Marsh's most famous work, initially outselling ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker. Narrated from four different perspectives, it focuses on a monstrous creature from ...


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The Avenger

It is the golden age of the silent movie. But when the heads of corpses start piling up without an explanation, the film industry’s charm wavers. And when Francis Elmer disappears ...


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The Story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin

In ‘The Story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin’ (1920), Anatole France presents a fantastic reimagining of the classic fairy-tale ‘Sleeping Beauty’. However, ...


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The Queen Pedauque

Jacques Menetrier, the son of a cookshop owner, finds his quiet life turned upside down when the wayward monk, Jerome Coignard, takes him under his tutelage. The pair soon find the ...


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Oroonoko

‘Oronooko’ tells the story of a fictional African prince, who is duped into slavery and sent to Surinam, a British colony in South America. There, with his beloved Imoinda also ens ...


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The Beautifull Cassandra and Other Stories

‘The Beautiful Cassandra and Other Stories’ (1793) was written by the renowned English novelist Jane Austen, best-known for her novels ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (1811) and ‘Pride and ...


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Bones

Set in Nigeria, at the time of the British Empire, ‘Bones’ introduces us to the hapless hero of the piece. The beloved Commissioner Sanders has struck up an uneasy truce with Bosam ...


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Diana of Kara-Kara

America, Australia, and London all feature in this globetrotting tale of love, deception, and psychic abilities. Diana Ford is as headstrong as they come and knows how to shoot a g ...


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Bertram Cope's Year

One of the earliest published works to explore the subject of homosexuality, ‘Bertram Cope's Year’ became the first of many books to later touch on homosexuality, such as ‘Brokebac ...


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The Lost Inheritance

From the author of the science fiction classic, 'The War of the Worlds', H.G. Wells' 'The Lost Inheritance' is a supernatural, suspense novella. In this short story, a young man's ...


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Josiah Allen on the Woman Question

‘Josiah Allen on the Woman Question’ (1914) was written by best-selling American writer and humourist Marietta Holley and is a short story featuring her well-known characters, Sama ...