This brief outline of the comparatively meagre information we possess on what at one time was the most widely spread mystery-institution in the Roman empire, is introductory to...

This novel tells the story of two families, English and American, on whom circumstances have played a strange prank which might have had unhappy consequences.As an experiment,...

Predatory, rich, and ruthless bisexual Kat Francis fills her hedonistic existence with bondage and domination sex games uncomplicated by love or commitment. She surrounds herself...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language...

Life on the Mississippi, written in 1883, is an autobiographical work by Mark Twain.After a brief digression on the discovery of the Mississippi River, occurred in 1541 by the...

Svengali, a rogue, masterful musician and hypnotist seduces, dominates and exploits Trilby, a young Irish girl. Svengali promises and makes Trilby a famous singer in Paris. It was...

The Innocents Abroad is a travel book by American author Mark Twain which humorously chronicles his travels on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy...

It follows a Sapphire given to a Captain Michael Crowther by his Burmese wife who he is deserting. When he finally decides to return to them he finds them now out of his reach and...

The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad. The novella depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of...

"Me-Smith" is the first novel by Caroline Lockhart (1911).Caroline Cameron Lockhart (1871–1962) was an American journalist and author.A failed actress, she...