Fiction - World Literature

François-Anatole Thibault was born on the 16th April 1844 in Paris, France, the son of a bookseller and bibliophile.He studied at the Collège Stanislas, a private Catholic school, and after graduating joined his father in the bookstore, which...

A remarkable adventure story from the wild imagination of Jules Verne!In October 1872, the fastidious Phileas Fogg— a British gentleman who rarely ventures outside the comforts of home or his beloved club— bets his compatriots that he can travel...

On the hottest day in 1935, and on the brink of a world war, three children lose their innocence as the sweltering summer heat bears down and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's privileged class; Robbie Turner is the...

From Giller Prize-winning novelist David Bergen, an electrifying novel set in early-twentieth century Ukraine amidst the chaos of revolution. As anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, David Bergen...

Montréal, 13 février 1940. Jeanne Vinais rend l'âme à la suite de son dur accouchement. Le gros poupon a eu raison de la chétive maman. Se retrouvant seul avec ses quatre filles, Marcelle, Régine, Estelle et la petite dernière prénommée Benjamine, le...

The time is now or an alternate near now, the world close to our own. A Category Five hurricane sweeps up the eastern seaboard of North America, leaving devastation in its wake. During this wild night, a stranger washes up on the doorstep of the...

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on March 13th, 1884.His father was an Anglican clergyman which involved postings abroad. Walpole’s early educated was by a Governess until, in 1893, his parents decided he needed a...

Bush Studies is a collection of six short stories by the enigmatic Australian author, Barbara Baynton (1857–1929). Embedded in Baynton's merciless, rugged vistas, these stories highlight the tragedy, harshness and humour of nineteenth century...

Little information survives on Catherine’s life.She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872.In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a...

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin was born on 14th February 1855 in what is now Dnipro in the Ukraine, but then part of the Russian Empire.After attending secondary school he studied at the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute.Wars between and on behalf of...

Diagnosed with three inoperable brain tumours, Stacey Fortune abandons the crumbling glamour of her life in Toronto for her mother’s scruffy trailer in rural Cape Breton. Back home she’s known as Crow, and everybody suspects that her family is...

When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987,...

Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture, and more commonly known as E M Delafield, was born in Steyning, Sussex on 9th June 1890.Raised in the fading years of the Victorian era with its Empire and strict moral codes Delafield, not yet...

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave.His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be...

Honoré de Balzac was born on the 20th May, 1799 in the French city of Tours into an upper middle class family.At birth Balzac was wet-nursed and often then schooled away from home by parents who seemed remote. So difficult was life that at 15 he...

Considered by many critics to be Jane Austen's finest achievement, Emma is the witty classic about youthful hubris and matchmaking gone awry. Emma Woodhouse, a privileged young lady with little to occupy her time, imagines that she dominates those...

What would happen if a tycoon decided to turn England into a theme park? Before anyone can say "Windsor Castle," replicas of all of the kingdom's great landmarks— from the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey to the National Gallery and everything in...

All talk, no action: The Mezzanine meets Ducks, Newburyport in this meandering and captivating debutIt’s a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken. Over the course of a day and night in an...

In 1930's China, the all-male Peking opera was luxurious entertainment for the privileged class—but only children from the poorest families were sent to opera schools to train as actors. Abandoned by his mother—a prostitute who can no longer care for...

Bella Ford, aged 19 and inexperienced, is seduced by an older, married man and becomes pregnant. Jilted by her unscrupulous lover, Bella plans revenge and journeys to the place he told her he was from— a lie— and loses the baby during the journey. She...

Not Yet Available Author - George Orwell. Narrator - Not Yet Available. Published Date - Thursday, 26 January 2023.

Frank Richard Stockton was born in Philadelphia on 5th April 1834.His father, a Methodist minister, discouraged Stockton’s literary career from an early age. Feeling unable to go against those wishes it was for many years that Stockton’s income was...

During the course of a long summer, it becomes clear to two young, lost, and bored Korean War vets that their future lies outside Indianapolis— amid the gleaming towers of Manhattan, where they will find glory, fame, and lots of women. Set in the...

Pip— the orphaned hero of Great Expectations— is one of Charles Dickens's best-loved characters. Young Philip Pirrip— nicknamed Pip— is apprenticed to his blacksmith brother-in-law, but an anonymous benefactor changes the boy' s future. After he is...