Emily Brontë’s only novel, this tale portrays Catherine and Heathcliff, their all-encompassing love for one another, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them both, leading Heathcliff to shun and abuse society. First published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights is considered to be a classic of English literature.
A Story of Love, Mystery and a Private Yacht “An astonishing story of love and mystery, which equals if not surpasses in interest those other lively stories of Mrs. Rinehart’s. The novel is one of the sprightliest of the season and will add to the author’s reputation as an inventor of ‘queer’ plots.” — Philadelphia […]
The Davis Twins Series Spice-o-meter Rating: This fun romance is a solid 7.5, maybe an 8, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being mild (Grandma’s diary – let’s hope!) and 10 being Ooh La La, I’m blushing, but I can’t seem to stop turning the pages (The Fifty Shades of Grey Red […]
Yet another of Gould’s splendid stories of love, adventure and horse racing. Book Excerpt “That poor devil who escaped from Dartmoor five days ago.” Dick smiled. “Is that your news?” “Yes.” “There have been several escapes lately.” “But they’ve all been caught in no time; this chap ain’t, and by gum, lad, if he come’d […]
Don Quijote de la Mancha (ortografía y título original -1605-, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha) es una de las obras cumbre de la literatura española y la literatura universal, el libro más traducido después de la Biblia, escrito por Miguel de Cervantes.
The Woman in White is widely regarded as the first in the genre of ‘sensation novels’. It follows the story of two sisters living in Victorian England with their selfish, uninterested uncle as their guardian. Marian Halcombe is the elder of the two sisters, and a remarkably ugly woman, but with courage, strength and resourcefulness […]
The story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, under his wing.
Among New York City’s upper class of the 1870s, before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there was a small cluster of aristocratic families that ruled New York’s social life. To those at the apex of the social world one’s occupation or abilities were secondary to heredity and family connections, and one’s […]
A Rose of the Cumberlands Smiles is a girl who has already made many friends and is destined to make many more. Her real name is Rose, but the rough folk of the Cumberlands preferred tehir own way of addressing her, for her smile was so bright and winning that no other name suited her […]