Alessandro Manzoni 
The Betrothed [EPUB ebook] 

George Meredith’s Rhoda Fleming is a tremendous work of literature that takes the reader on an emotional rollercoaster and, unlike other books, has no qualms about portraying tragedy in all its real …

Winter in the Air comprises eighteen short stores written between 1938 and 1955. Despite the time span Sylvia Townsend Warner”s biographer, Claire Harman, considers this collection the first ”to se …

To have and to hold?Reluctant debutante Lady Clarissa Macpherson has never forgotten the forbidden kiss she shared with notorious rake, Lord Theodore Bennett, all those years ago. Even now, he’s the …

Falling In With Fortune is a fictional novel written by Horatio Alger Jr. It is a complete story in itself, but it is the second of the two book volumes, the first is known as "Out For Business. …

The Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy includes the novel The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story begins in Paris in April 1794, when Theresia Cabarrus is betrothed to Citizen Tallien …

"Tanglewood Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a collection of timeless myths and legends, reimagined for a younger audience. This book provides a new and intriguing take on ancient Greek myt …

"On Picket Duty, and Other Tales" by using Louisa May Alcott is a captivating series of short testimonies that showcases the writer’s versatility and storytelling prowess. The anthology com …

Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre – the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky – and Germany”s greatest poet of the last c …

Perhaps the inspiration for the show the Amazing Race, Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is the story of the eccentric Englishman Phileas Fogg and his trusty French valet Passepartout, who, …

Ever since its first appearance in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has proven itself to be a tale of undiminished power for readers all over the world. But the st …