The seemingly peaceful country village of Hayslope is the setting for this ambitious first novel by George Eliot.

A group of Legionnaires reaches Fort Zinderneuf to find everyone dead, and a note in one of the...

A column of French Legionaires finds one of their fortresses manned by dead men. It looks like one of his own troops killed the sergeant. Who could have done it?

A complex plot of love and inheritance is set against the English legal system of the mid-19th century, with all its tortuous avenues and disguised resolutions.

In the sequel to Kidnapped, David Balfour's story continues as he becomes further caught up in the political conspiracy of the "Appin Case."

For Edmond Dantes, life couldn't be better. At 19, he is soon to be captain of his own ship and about to be married to his true love, Mercedes. But his life is suddenly turned upside down when on his wedding day he is arrested.

No other work has portrayed with such clarity the march of Rome's empire into anarchy and ruin, and no...

It's the classic adventure of a madman: the "renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha." He attacks windmills, believes a peasant girl to be a lady, and fancies that he is a knight-errant, dedicated to righting wrongs and rescuing damsels in distress.

John Galsworthy devoted virtually his entire professional career to creating a fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes.

Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Crooked Man...

In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced.

Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound which is said to have haunted his family for generations?

A huge crowd packed the square of the great Parisian cathedral to witness the execution of Esmeralda...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, first published by Victor Hugo in 1831, is set in fifteenth century Paris. The archdeacon of Notre Dame, Claude Frollo, falls in lust with Esmerelda---a gypsy dancer who is much admired in Paris.

Victor Hugo began writing Les Misérables twenty years before its eventual publication in 1862. Les Misérables is primarily a great humanitarian work that encourages compassion and hope in the face of adversity and injustice.

Edward Holmes, a schoolfellow of Keats, provides the first complete account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based upon Mozart's own letters and memoirs.

Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Chronicles.

The Man of Property, the first novel in Galsworthy’s epic social satire The Forsyte Saga, introduces us to Soames Forsyte, a solicitor and prominent man of his important family.

1848. Providence, Rhode Island. Is the mysterious stranger fact or fiction?

Considered one of the greatest, and most influential, writers of the 20th century, Marcel Proust was also one of its most fascinating figures....

Robin Hood, the brave, good-humored outlaw, lives deep in Sherwood Forest, proving himself the best in England with his bow.

Here are the beloved adventures of the mischievous hero Robin Hood and his brave and merry band of outlaws, who forged a chivalrous code to protect the oppressed and despoil the oppressors.

Clare Charwell has just fled her sadistic husband to England. Along the way she has met the charming Tony Croom. When she refuses to return to her husband, he falsely accuses her of adultery with Tony in a highly public court trial.

One of the most famous and influential books of its (or any) time, The Origin of Species is, surprisingly, little read. True enough, most people know what it says---or think they do, at any rate.

"New truth is often uncomfortable," Bertrand Russell wrote, "but it is the most important achievement of our species."