“ The Well of Pen-Morfa” (1850) is a short dark novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, the writer of the Victorian age.

“The master of Ballantrae” is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1888 and is certainly the most novel and complex thought of Scottish author. The plot of the...

Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado...

Sanders of the River was written by Edgar Wallace in 1911. This was the height of Edwardian power culminating in positive ideas about The British Empire and the role of Britain in...

Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels...

"The amateur emigrant", written by Robert Louis Stevenson between 1879 and 1880, is an account of the trip that the writer do ' from Scotland to California to visit...

The Trumpet-Major is a novel by Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel. It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday,...

“Prince Otto” is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson of 1885. Otto is a prince of a small German court of the eighteenth century, his indolent character leads him to...

“North and South “(1854) is a novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The title refers to one of the themes of the novel: the contrast of lifestyles between the...

Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. This is a book laden with hidden meaning and allusion. It describes the...