E-böcker / Romaner
Riders to the Sea
‘Riders to the Sea’ (1904), is a classic one-act tragedy by famed Irish playwright J.M. Synge. Maurya, a widower of the Aran Islands who has lost her husband and five sons to the s ...
The Tinker's Wedding
Sarah Casey, determined to be made an honest woman, convinces reluctant local Tinker, Michael Byrne, to marry her. After harassing the local priest into officiating their wedding f ...
The Well of the Saints
J.M. Synge’s ‘The Well of the Saints’ is a three-act darkly comedic play that explores themes of myth, vision and journeys. Two blind beggars, Martin and Mary Doul, are cured of th ...
Army Reform
Edgar Wallace’s ‘Army Reform’ unravels the opinions, thoughts, and experiences of Private Smith during World War One. Packed with witty humour and peppered with sarcasm, this autob ...
Bosambo of the River
Colonial Administrator Sanders is known for exploiting the people of Liberia. But when he encounters the one man three steps ahead of him, all that is about to change. Both a conma ...
The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham
Adapted into episode one of the TV mini-series, The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells – starring Ray Winstone and Michael Gambon – The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham is a short story ...
In the Modern Vein
Containing loosely autobiographical elements, ‘In the Modern Vein’ is a short story detailing the romantic pursuits of the poet, Aubrey Vair. The crux of the tale focuses on Vair’s ...
Christina Alberta's Father
‘Christina Alberta’s Father’ is a multi-layered read. Part comedy, part tragedy, and part satire of 1920s society, it tells the story of Albert Edward Preemby. Following his wife’s ...
The Desert of Wheat
A classic portrait of America during World War I, from American author Zane Grey, famously known for his romanticized stories about the old West.‘The Desert of Wheat’ (1919) sets t ...
The Story of Ivy
The beautiful and ambitious Ivy got exactly what she wanted when she married Jervis Lexton for his money.At least, she thought she had.In fact, she got a whole lot less than she ba ...
The Nuptials of Corbal
Paris in the late 18th century was a place where it was wise to keep your head - or risk losing it.Countless people 'sneezed into the basket' that stood beneath the blade of the fe ...
Smoky the Cowhorse
Born into the Wild West, Smoky knows nothing but the breath of freedom whipping through his mane as he rides into the wind. And when a cowboy named Clint takes him in as his trusty ...
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry (1927) is a satirical indictment of fundamentalist and evangelistic religion that caused a great scandal when it was first published. It was written by Nobel Prize win ...
Death Comes for the Archbishop
When Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf accept a commission to establish a Catholic diocese in New Mexico, they know they are in for a few trials.'Death Comes for th ...
Allan and the Ice-Gods
The final novel in H. Rider Haggard’s much-anticipated trilogy, ‘Allan and the Ice Gods’, sees the return of Allan Quatermain and features Lady Luna Ragnall and the taduki drug ye ...
The Short Cut
In this tale of adventure, romance, treachery, intrigue, and vengeance, a young woman named Wanda is out riding her horse when she stumbles upon the dead body of Arthur Shandon. Th ...
A War-Time Wooing
Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, ‘A War-Time Wooing’ tells the story of Bessie Warren and her love for Lieutenant Paul Revere Abbott. Bessie's brother has been k ...
The Virginian
Laying the foundations for Clint Eastwood’s nameless character in ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,’ ‘The Virginian’ is a landmark novel of the western genre. The eponymous hero is ...
Prometheus Illbound
The wealthy Zeus drops a handkerchief in the street, and whoever picks it up must give him the name and address of one other person. That person is then rewarded with untold riches ...
Sanders of the River
The first book in the ´Sanders of the River´ series and set in the Edwardian era, ‘Sanders of the River’ focuses on the eponymous Governor of Nigeria. Commissioner Sanders struggle ...
Lady Audley's Secret
‘Lady Audley's Secret’ by Mary Elizabeth Braddon is a Victorian sensation novel and her most famous and well-known work. In this story, which combines elements from detective novel ...
Christine
The only novel published under the pen-name Alice Cholmondeley, ‘Christine’ gives insight into von Arnim's thoughts about the atrocities of World War I. The story is told through ...
Christopher and Columbus
Set just before the first world war as the onset of conflict looms, ‘Christopher and Columbus’ tells the story of seventeen-year-old twin orphans, Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas as t ...
Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther
The novel centres on Rose-Marie Schmidt, a twenty-five-year-old woman who lives with her father, a professor, and is considered a spinster by most of the inhabitants of their small ...
The Pastor's Wife
In Elizabeth von Arnim’s humourous novel, "The Pastor's Wife", the main character Ingeborg Bullivant goes on a spontaneous trip to Lucerne and returns engaged to a Prussian pastor. ...