Lewis Carroll 
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [PDF ebook] 

"A Pair of Schoolgirls" by Angela Brazil is a captivating children’s literature work that delves into the enchanting world of a British boarding school during the Victorian era. As a celebr …

The Young Salesman by Jr. Horatio Alger is a 19th-century juvenile fiction novel, embodying the classic "rags-to-riches" theme prevalent in Alger’s works. The story centers on the life of a …

Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, …

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 …

Isabella Adams has tasted desire—and paid the price.With four scandalous attachments to her name, only the fierce patronage of Lady Watson has kept the doors of fashionable society open. And yet, whe …

When rules are made to be broken…Viscount Kellaway may sound like a gentleman, but he doesn’t act like one. As far as Kell is concerned, drink, women and the wrong side of the law are much more attra …

Like all of Hardy’s work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of chanc …

Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you »ve read before . . . Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscap …

Voltaire was arguably the 18th century »s greatest philosopher, and his most enduring work is his novella Candide; Or All for the Best. In it Voltaire parodies the philosophy of optimism championed b …