Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to work in a cholera epidemic.

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life.

The book's initial public reception was poor. It was republished in 1927, with some minor wording changes, by Alfred A. Knopf, an influential firm that published many Harlem Renaissance writers, and Johnson was credited as the author.

These works that everybody, young or old, reads and reads again, have on the Chinese mind an influence much greater than the whole bulk of the classics.

Typhoon is a classic adventure story of sea-faring life at the turn of the century; Captain Macwhirr, estranged from his family and his crew, sails the Siamese steam Nan-Shan into the center of a typhoon.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, preeminent author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, based this book on her own experience growing up in Litchfield Connecticut.

When you look at fine connections, it's hard to say exactly what relation "Alice in Wonderland" has to this book, "Through the Looking-Glass," Oh, it's plainly the same girl, though she seems older, here, and some characters (like ...

Así tropezarás con Los tres mosqueteros: Athos, Porthos y Aramis, a quienes llegarás a querer tanto como a tus mejores amigos, y con quienes ante más de un peligro exclamarás la ya muy célebre promesa “ Uno para todos y todos para ...

It happened in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas's Day.

Man mano che cotesta ricerca del meglio di cui l'uomo è travagliato cresce e si dilata, tende anche ad elevarsi, e segue il suo moto ascendente nelle classi sociali." "I Malavoglia" è stato il primo e-book realizzato da Liber Liber.