Romance
A Room with a View
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. S…
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d…
Persuasion
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marri…
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…
Doctor Wortle's School
Anthony Trollope’s fortieth novel, published in 1881, concerns a respectable Christian boys’ school whose proprietor unknowingly hires a wom…
The Vicomte De Bragelonne
In the final installment of Alexandre Dumas' celebrated Musketeer saga, The Vicomte de Bragelonne picks up the story of Athos, Porthos, Aram…
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more…
Colonel Quaritch, V.C.
This is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adult…
St. George and St. Michael
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides …
The Monk
Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of t…
Nina Balatka
Nina Balatka is a poignant romance set against the backdrop of 19th-century Prague, where the lives of a Catholic woman and a Jewish man int…
To Let
‘The Forsyte Saga’ is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties.To Let is the t…
He Knew He Was Right
He Knew He Was Right is a 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollope which describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealou…
Green Mansions
"Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest" is a narration of his life story by Abel, a Venezuelan, to a comrade. Once a we…
A Strange World
A compelling story by one of the most prolific authors of the Victorian "sensational novel" serves up the perfect blend of murder,…
The Carved Cupboard
Agatha, Gwen, Clare and Elfie have always been told that they will inherit their aunt's house. But when their aunt dies, she leaves it all t…
Phineas Finn the Irish Member
Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irish…
North and South
Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relo…
Dangerously Yours
Dangerously Yours was a half-hour show sponsored by Vicks. There were sixteen episodes broadcast in 1944, with eleven of them available to c…
The Hidden Places
Hollister, returning home from the war physically scarred but otherwise healthy and intact, finds life difficult among society, and so choos…