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Whose Body?

Dorothy L. Sayers

Whose Body?

Renowned English novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic, Dorothy L. Sayers’s “Whose Body?” was first published in 1923. In this novel we are introduced to her most famous character, the aristocratic amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Lord Wimsey has developed an interest in solving crimes and joins in to help his friend Inspector Charles Parker and the official investigation into the disappearance of a famous financier. A naked body is discovered in the bathtub of a nearby flat and it...

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Dorothy L. Sayers

La Metamorfosis (Versión íntegra)

Franz Kafka

La Metamorfosis (Versión íntegra)

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Franz Kafka

The Man with the Twisted Lip - A Sh...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Man with the Twisted Lip - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure (Unabridged)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Yellow Face -...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Yellow Face - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure (Unabridged)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio

In this moving collection of interrelated stories, Ohio-born Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) illuminates the loneliness and frustration — spiritual, emotional and artistic — of life in a small American town. Winesburg, Ohio subtly portrays as well a young writer's coming of age, searching for love, yearning for a less stifling world.Through the eyes of young George Willard, the inner lives of many of Winesburg's inhabitants open to us. Before George leaves the...

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Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio (with an Introducti...

Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio (with an Introduction by Ernest Boyd)

Sherwood Anderson’s most famous work, “Winesburg, Ohio” is a cycle of short stories set in the fictional town of Winesburg, loosely based on the author’s own home town of Clyde, Ohio. A picture of small town America during the first part of the 20th century, the series of short stories revolves around the life George Willard, from youth, through his yearning for independence, to his eventually departure from the town. Each story tells the tale of a distinct member of the town as related to...

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Sherwood Anderson

Witch Wood

Buchan John

Witch Wood

Introduced by Christopher Harvie. Set against the religious struggles of seventeenth-century Scotland, with Montrose for the king against a convenanted kirk, John Buchan’s Witch Wood is a gripping atmospheric tale in the spirit of Stevenson and Neil Munro. As a moderate Presbyterian minister, young David Sempill disputes with the extremists of his faith. All around, the defeated remnants of Montrose’s men are being harried and slaughtered by the faithful, and Sempill’s plea for compassion,...

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Buchan John

Within a Budding Grove

Marcel Proust

Within a Budding Grove

First published in 1919, “Within a Budding Grove” is the second novel in the “In Search of Lost Time” series by famed French author Marcel Proust. Originally intended to be published in 1914, but delayed by the onset of World War I, “Within a Budding Grove” was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1919 and instantly catapulted Proust to international fame. The novel follows the narrator from the first volume, “Swann’s Way”, from childhood to adolescence. He grows bored with Swann’s daughter, Gilberte,...

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Marcel Proust

The Resident Patient (Unabridged)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Resident Patient (Unabridged)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Schefakas Geheimnis (Ungekürzt)

Karl May

Schefakas Geheimnis (Ungekürzt)

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Karl May

The Stockbroker's Clerk (Unabridged...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Stockbroker's Clerk (Unabridged)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Wives and Daughters (with an Introd...

Элизабет Гаскелл

Wives and Daughters (with an Introduction by Adolphus W. Ward)

Widely believed to be her masterpiece, Elizabeth Gaskell’s “Wives and Daughters” was originally published serially in “Cornhill Magazine” between August 1864 and January 1866. The work, which was nearly finished at the time of Gaskell’s death in 1865, was completed by Frederick Greenwood. The novel’s heroine is Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed country doctor in a small town in England. Molly, lonely and motherless, is befriended by the Hamley family, who are landed gentry and...

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Элизабет Гаскелл

Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence и др.

Women in Love

"Women in Love" by D. H. Lawrence. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...

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D. H. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence и др.

Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence

Women in Love

From one of the 20th century's preeminent novelists and poets comes this passionate tale of romance amid the chaos of modern life. D. H. Lawrence's compelling account of two couples' search for romantic fulfillment is steeped in an edgy eroticism bordering on violence. The literary world reacted with shock upon its 1921 publication: nearly a century later, the novel's psychological penetration continues to captivate readers.Women in Love reintroduces two sisters, Ursula and...

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D. H. Lawrence

Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence

Women in Love

First published in 1920, D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love” is the sequel to his 1915 novel “The Rainbow” and is widely considered one of his best works and one of the most important English novels of the twentieth century. “Women in Love” continues to follow the Brangwen family, focusing on the lives and loves of sisters Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen. Living in the Midlands of England during the 1910’s, Ursula is a teacher and Gudrun is an artist. The sisters meet two men who live nearby, Rupert...

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D. H. Lawrence

The Boscombe Valley Mystery - A She...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Boscombe Valley Mystery - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure (Unabridged)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Final Problem - A Sherlock Holm...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Final Problem - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure (Unabridged)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Unabri...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Unabridged)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Beautiful and Damned (Unabridge...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned (Unabridged)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wuthering Heights

Эмили Бронте

Wuthering Heights

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering heights, it seems he has opened his doors to...

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Эмили Бронте

Wuthering Heights

Эмили Бронте

Wuthering Heights

In this new edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, re-read the classic love story that has haunted and inspired nearly who’ve come across it. From the burning love between Catherine and Heathcliff, to the estranged family dynamics at Wuthering Heights, Bronte’s novel explores the dangers of a love that remains forever unrequited. Lockwood, a striking young man from the south of England, is only looking for some respite when he decides to rent a mysterious property in Yorkshire. The...

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Эмили Бронте

Wuthering Heights

Эмили Бронте

Wuthering Heights

Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. A somber tale of consuming passions and vengeance played out against the lonely moors of northern England, the book proved to be one of the most enduring classics of English literature.The turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff spans two generations...

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Эмили Бронте

Я захватываю замок

Доди Смит

Я захватываю замок

Юная Кассандра Мортмейн, решив оттачивать литературное мастерство, начинает вести дневник. Она пишет о своей семье – остроумно, иронично, трогательно, временами наивно. Ее семья – красавица-сестра, рассудительный брат-школьник, экстравагантная мачеха и отец, знаменитый писатель, автор лишь одного романа, – живет в полуразрушенном английском замке, взятом в аренду, и с трудом сводит концы с концами. Запахи трав, таинственный свет звезд, романтика классических английских пейзажей… Приезд двух...

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Доди Смит

The Lightning-Rod Man (Unabridged)

Herman Melville

The Lightning-Rod Man (Unabridged)

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Herman Melville

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