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Emma (Wisehouse Classics - With Ill...

Джейн Остин

Emma (Wisehouse Classics - With Illustrations by H.M. Brock)

EMMA , by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, “I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” In the first sentence she introduces the title...

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Джейн Остин

Pride and Prejudice (Wisehouse Clas...

Джейн Остин

Pride and Prejudice (Wisehouse Classics - with Illustrations by H.M. Brock)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, Mr. Bennet living in Longbourn. Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's five...

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Джейн Остин

The Garden Party (Unabridged)

Katherine Mansfield

The Garden Party (Unabridged)

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Katherine Mansfield

The Daughters of the Late Colonel (...

Katherine Mansfield

The Daughters of the Late Colonel (Unabridged)

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Katherine Mansfield

The Swing of the Pendulum (Unabridg...

Katherine Mansfield

The Swing of the Pendulum (Unabridged)

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Katherine Mansfield

The Mode in Monuments: Stray Though...

H. G. Wells

The Mode in Monuments: Stray Thoughts in Highgate Cemetery (Unabridged)

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H. G. Wells

El Dorado (Unabridged)

Robert Louis Stevenson

El Dorado (Unabridged)

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt C...

H. G. Wells

Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte (Unabridged)

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H. G. Wells

Bagarrow (Unabridged)

H. G. Wells

Bagarrow (Unabridged)

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H. G. Wells

You Have Me to Love

Jaap Robben

You Have Me to Love

An unforgettable read about lost childhood innocence, isolation, guilt and mother-and son relationships with an AFP of 30,000 Mikael lives with his parents on a remote island somewhere between Scotland and Norway. When his father drowns, the relationship between Mikael and his mother transforms: she slowly starts to unravel, forcing the son to replace his father in every possible way. Incredible endorsement by bestselling author Colm Tóibín: “You Have Me to Love is an intense and dramatic novel...

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Jaap Robben

The Darkness that Divides Us

Renate Dorrestein

The Darkness that Divides Us

Beautiful, happy people? No. Lucy is the most popular girl in the local elementary school of an idyllic Dutch housing estate. When a bizarre crime rocks her world and sends her mother to prison, Lucy is turned into an outcast and her childhood becomes an ordeal of constant, vicious bullying. After her mother’s release, Lucy’s family decides to escape and make a clean start on a rugged Scottish island. But even here, in this remote corner of the world, Lucy’s past holds a firm grip on her....

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Renate Dorrestein

His Name is David

Jan Vantoortelboom

His Name is David

Flanders, 1915. David Verbocht, sentenced to death as a deserter, stands before the firing squad and looks back on his short life. As a young man, David was sent away by his parents, after a tragic accident in the family, to become a schoolteacher in a remote village. There he develops a special bond with a sensitive young student, along with feelings for the boy’s mother. When fate strikes again, the history of loss and guilt seems to repeat itself. Jan Vantoortelboom grew up in Elverdinge,...

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Jan Vantoortelboom

Palmerstone Ridge

Kim Allen

Palmerstone Ridge

Janette Walsh was an orphaned girl who felt lucky to end up with a caring, supportive foster family. She was working for the family cafe when Richard Pilman came into her life. They became more than friends and were soon planning a life together. As their romance blossomed, a little life was growing inside her. Before the child came, Richard was taken away to war, but promised to return. <br />The pregnancy was tough but the baby arrives, and then the news came that Richard’s battalion was...

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Kim Allen

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Unabrid...

Lyman Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Unabridged)

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Lyman Frank Baum

The Sister of the Baroness (Unabrid...

Katherine Mansfield

The Sister of the Baroness (Unabridged)

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Katherine Mansfield

How I Died (Unabridged)

H. G. Wells

How I Died (Unabridged)

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H. G. Wells

A Society (Unabridged)

Virginia Woolf

A Society (Unabridged)

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Virginia Woolf

Incidental Thoughts on a Bald Head...

H. G. Wells

Incidental Thoughts on a Bald Head (Unabridged)

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H. G. Wells

The Extinction of Man (Unabridged)

H. G. Wells

The Extinction of Man (Unabridged)

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H. G. Wells

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Vol. 2...

Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Vol. 2 (Unabridged)

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Victor Hugo

The Day John Fitzgerald Kennedy Pas...

Welby Thomas Cox, Jr.

The Day John Fitzgerald Kennedy Past

The Day John Fitzgerald Kennedy Past is a book about the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. The book covers the rush to judgment by President Lyndon Johnson in order to quell a potential storm by the media and others who suspected a government conspiracy. The case against Lee Harvey Oswald seemed to be open and shut but who was the stranger who entered the Texas Book Depository dressed as a police officer? Why was the testimony of several observers of...

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Welby Thomas Cox, Jr.

Painted Oxen

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Painted Oxen

Two men, three realms, one goal: to find the heart of the world. Painted Oxen is a novel of transcendence, one that not only invites its readers into its story, but somehow enmeshes them in its alchemy, leaving them changed in unexpected ways at its journeys end. Bridging the worlds of ancient Tibet and modern-day India, Painted Oxen weaves a tale of two men—one young, one old—on parallel journeys. Their separate-but-connected pilgrimages are equal parts internal and...

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Thomas Lloyd Qualls

River of Love

Aimée Medina Carr

River of Love

RIVER OF LOVE  is a supernatural Love story about a fierce Indigenous Mexican American girl growing up in a white Colorado town during a youth-led cultural revolution of the 1970s. It’s a Love letter to the Southern Rocky Mountains, to the Spirits, to a close-knit family, and even to youth itself. The Arkansas River is a vital character, as is the environment, and wisdom of the ancestors. Things that happen when you’re young seem so much more important because...

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Aimée Medina Carr

The Dowry Bride

Shobhan Bantwal

The Dowry Bride

One sultry night, a young bride overhears an extraordinary conversation. The voices speak of a plot to murder a wife who has failed to produce a child and whose family has failed to produce the promised dowry. . . Megha is sick with horror when she realizes she is the intended victim. Her husband–the very man who tied the sacred necklace of marriage around her neck–and his mother are plotting to kill her! In the moment of panic, she runs for her life. Frantically racing through Palgaum's...

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Shobhan Bantwal

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