Umberto is a Milanese physician now close to retirement. By pure curiosity he investigates the origin of his surname and finds out an ancient noble Tuscan origin. A Ghibelline...

If you like Downton Abbey you will love Barbara Cartland.Beautiful Jasmina Winfield is a thoroughly modern American girl who likes to make her own decisions. A skilled and daring...

‘How could you, Mama? Papa has not even been dead a year!’When the beautiful Lucia Mountford’s mother remarries less than a year after her father’s death on the Titanic,...

Lady Lolita Vernon, daughter of the late Earl of Walcott and Vernon, has run away.Her stepfather, Ralph Piran is forcing her to accept the attentions and perhaps an offer of...

PREFACE.THE verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"—something produced absolutely without...

This book presents selected poetry and prose of the Moscow poet AnastasiaVolnaya. I think that this poem shows the main idea of the book:Poems - glassThrough them you lookAnd you...

Purgatory is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno, and preceding the Paradiso. The poem was written in the early 14th century. It is an allegory...

Sara Jeannette Duncan (22 December 1861 – 22 July 1922) was a Canadian author and journalist. She also published as Mrs. Everard Cotes among other names. First trained as a...

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books; a second edition followed in 1674,...

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via...