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El Dorado Baroness Orczy In the Scarlet Pimpernel's fourth outing, he and his league want to free the orphaned Dauphin of France from his captors. But someone else has the same idea, although for very...

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Diogenes Laërtius These brief biographies of more than eighty philosophers of ancient Greece were assembled by Diogenes Laërtius in the early third centu...

The Monk M. G. Lewis claimed to have written The Monk in just ten weeks, when he was twenty-one years of age. He published the first edition anonymously, sensing that the controversial and then-pornog...

The Moonstone The "Moonstone" of the title is a large but flawed diamond, looted from India at the time of the Mutiny by an unscrupulous British officer. Many years later, estranged from his family du...

The Nibelungenlied, by Anonymous, was Germany's first heroic epic put into writing. Thomas Carlyle considered it "a precious national possession, recovered after six centuries of neglect, [which] take...

The Rainbow, by D.H. Lawrence, is an epic tale spanning three generations of Brangwens, a family of farmers living in Nottinghamshire around the time of the Industrial Revolution. The tale begins with...

The Slaves of Paris Émile Gaboriau In this, Gaboriau's penultimate Lecoq novel, Lecoq doesn't make an appearance until the last few chapters of the book. In fact, the protagonists' identity remains un...

The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather's third novel, was written in 1915 . It is said to have been inspired by the real-life soprano Olive Fremstad , a celebrated Swedish-American singer who, like the pr...