Allan's Wife

Author(s): Henry Rider Haggard
Date     : 1887






The third book in the Allan Quatermain series

The tale of Allan Quatermain's second wife, Stella, is also a classic fantasy African adventure, complete with magic and ghosts, plus Haggard's trademark gripping narrative style.



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Lady Rosamond's Secret

Author(s): Rebecca Agatha Armour
Date     : 1878



The First Scene: A September sunset in Fredericton, A. D. 1824.
Much has been said and sung about the beauteous scenes of nature in every clime.
Sir Walter Scott has lovingly depicted his native heaths, mountains, lochs and glens.
Moore draws deep inspiration amid scenes of the Emerald Isle, and strikes his lyre to chords of awakening love, light and song.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

Author(s): Jules Verne
Date     : 1870



Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (written in 1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (written in 1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (written in 1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author of all time, behind Disney Productions and Agatha Christie, according to Index Translationum. Some of his work has been made into films. Verne, along with H. G. Wells, is often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction".

War and Peace

Author(s): Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, translator: Louise and Aylmer Maude
Date     : 1869



War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels.

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Author(s): John Cleland
Date     : 1749



Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland.
Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.