“Prince Otto” is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson of 1885. Otto is a prince of a small German court of the eighteenth century, his indolent character leads him to...

“ The Well of Pen-Morfa” (1850) is a short dark novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, the writer of the Victorian age.

Sanders of the River was written by Edgar Wallace in 1911. This was the height of Edwardian power culminating in positive ideas about The British Empire and the role of Britain in...

The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les...

“My Lady Ludlow” is a long novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell in 1858.La storia descrive perfettamente la vecchia aristocrazia inglese. The story describes perfectly...

A work of faith and hope, repentance and redemption, this novel, set in Marshmallows, a rural location in Victorian England, is the story of a young vicar, Harry Walton, beginning...

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (29 September 1810 — 12 November 1865) was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed...

We are in November 1859 and Elizabeth Gaskell decides to spend a vacation of 15 days in Whitby, Yorkshire town. Here he began to do research on whaling, the forced conscription of...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction. A young Scottish boy relates his adventures growing up with his three brothers in a small country town in northern Scotland where their...

"Cranford" is a short story written by Elizabeth Gaskell in 1851. The protagonist is the young lady Mary Smith who narrates in first person the daily lives of some...