The Land Where Lemons Grow
Helena Attle is an English writer who has worked for thirty years in Italy, an expert in gardens. In this book, she manages to infect the reader with her passion for Italy and, more specifically, for its...
Literature - Realistic
Washington Square
Novel set in New York, at the end of the 19th century. Dr. Sloper is a prestigious doctor, married to a young woman of high society. He has his clientele among that public. They had a son who died at the...
A simple heart
Short story of great literary quality. It tells the story of Félicité, an affable, seemingly insignificant person, who was employed for years as a domestic servant in a rural region of northwestern France...
The House of Special Purpose
A book set in three moments of the 20th century; one before 1917, another around that year and a third, years later, until 1981. Georgi is a young man from a Russian village. The passing of a nobleman, a...
O, The Brave Music
Oh, how splendid the splendid music of childhood days, when everything was immense, the whole world was a paradise to be explored and the passage of time, an endless succession of exciting discoveries! Ruan...
The Red Badge of Courage
Neo-realist novel, set in the American Civil War. The story is told from the point of view of a recruit going to his first battle. Everything is seen through the eyes of the soldier, his thoughts and...
Heart and science
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is the great master of intrigue and pioneer of the detective novel. He proves it again in Heart and Science, where he combines a romantic plot with the question of the limits of...
Should we Fall to Ruin
New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a remote garrison and their battle against extraordinary odds.
Tess of the d'Urberville
Tess Durbeyfield is the daughter of a poor villager who suddenly learns that he is a descendant of the ancient d'Urberville family. The rich Alec d'Urberville seduces Tess and it is doubtful if he should...
Dark the rising
The last novel in the William Monk saga, set in the late 19th century, describes the city of London in great detail. Most of the story focuses on investigating who has betrayed the protagonist's trust, as...