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Farewell (“Adieu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1832 and part of the La Comédie Humaine. In his startling and tragic novella, Balzac adds to the 19th centur ...

Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humai ...

Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Betty, as one of a complementary pair of no ...

Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie ...

Thaïs is a novel by French Nobel laureate Anatole France published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Thaïs of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is sa ...

The Revolt of the Angels is a 1914 novel by French Nobel laureate Anatole France. It is a startling tale in which the fallen angel Arcade schemes to organize a new revolt among the ...

Penguin Island is a satire novel by French Nobel laureate Anatole France, first published in 1908. The Novel is written in the style of a sprawling 18th- and 19th-century history b ...

The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1860. The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Flos ...

Felix Holt, The Radical is a social novel by George Eliot, first published in 1866. Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mo ...

Romola is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1863. Romola is a historical novel set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an ...

Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. The novel has remained in print ever since, and is used in university st ...

Silas Marner is a novel George Eliot first published in 1861. Reputed as Eliot’s favourite novel Silas Marner is set in the early years of the 19th century. Marner, a weaver, is a ...

Scenes of Clerical Life is a novel by George Eliot first published in 1858. Scenes of Clerical Life, was the first published fiction by George Eliot. It consists of three novellas ...

The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. The novella explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after dea ...

Brother Jacob is a short story by George Eliot, first published in 1860. In Brother Jacob, George Eliot explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centred and ambitious Da ...

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot was first published in 1876. In this enduring Victorian classic, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eli ...

The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career (it was written in ten weeks, before he turne ...

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, the first one-volume edition was p ...

Once more, Vladimir Oravsky and Kurt Peter Larsen, the authors of Beatrice Takes A Trip and many more, let us enjoy the humor in a fabulistic story with lots of depth.These are the ...

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience or Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1 ...

One Basket is a sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Edna Ferber and includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Good and The Maternal ...

Buttered Side Down is a short story collection, first published in 1912, by American novelist Edna Ferber, who won the Pulitzer price in 1925. The Stories included are: - The frog ...

Emma McChesney and Company (Emma McChesney trilogy #3) is a novel by American, Pulitzer prize winning novelist Edna Ferber, first published in 1915. This is the final volume in the ...

Personality Plus (Emma McChesney trilogy #2) is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, Personality Plus is the second of three volumes chronic ...

Roast Beef, Medium (Emma McChesney trilogy #1), first published in 1913 is a novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, the American novelist Edna Ferber. This book follows the adventures of ...