Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) was an English novelist known for her huge output, now mostly out of print. Charlotte Mary Yonge's books provide an intimate picture of...
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, the child of a family of small-town weavers, and best remembered...
Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-First World War England. It is one of...
PREFACE.In this, the third series of Breakfast-Table conversations, a slight dramatic background shows off a few talkers and writers, aided by certain silent supernumeraries. The...
“The squire’s story”(1855) is a short dark ,gothic and mysterious story written by Elizabeth Gaskell, the Victorian writer…
Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823 - 1901) was an English novelist born into a religious family. Her first book was published in 1838, the revenues of which went toward the founding of a...
The poems of Sidney Lanier continue to find an admiring audience more than a century after his death. Though his poetry evokes both the landscape and the romantic spirit of the...
Maid in Waiting (1931) is the beginning novel in the trilogy of John Galsworthy ‘s Forsyte Chronicles.The story tells of the loves and losses, and fortunes, of life and...
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (Greenwich, 1 April 1875 – Beverly Hills, February 10, 1932) was a writer, journalist, playwright and screenwriter.Together with Arthur Conan...
In Chancery is the second novel of the Forsyte Saga trilogy by John Galsworthy and was published in 1920, . Like its predecessor it focuses on the personal affairs of a wealthy...