After the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband’s name-day was being celebrated, went out into the garden. The duty...

Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

Sir Launcelot is virtuous and strange, and he is surrounded by a Smollettian menagerie whose various jargons are part of this novel's linguistic virtuosity and satire. He is an...

Conrad is crushed to death on his wedding day by a gigantic helmet that falls on him from above. Manfred, lord of the castle, terrified that his son's death signals the...

When Mary catches her stepfather staring at her for a couple of times, she makes fun of him, asking him where his wife is. And this makes Paul wonder where his wife really is. She...

Upton Sinclair's disturbing novel about the Wall Street scare of 1907 portrays the tactics of greedy capitalists who organize the fall of a rival trust company, creating a...

Amy and Sam are owners of the BBC Bistro. Their customers are dwindling and their staff is fired faster than they're hired! Amy doesn't seem to care as long as the kitchen...

Though under threat of arrest, Egmont refuses to run away and give up his ideal of liberty. Imprisoned and abandoned because of the cowardice of his people, and despite the...

With a murderous beast on her heels and a conniving daemon who wants to use her for his own means, Tora Hayden’s main objective is to keep herself and those she cares about...

:DESCRIPTIONImagine the gods chose you to act for them. Imagine they guided your life to give you happiness and success before you learnt their true purpose. In the height of the...