"Cornelie De Retz Van Loo, a twenty-three-year-old divorcee from an upper-class Hague milieu, tries with mixed feelings to begin a new life in Italy in 19...

Louis Couperus was catapulted to prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere, a psychological masterpiece inspired by Flaubert and Tolstoy. Eline Vere is a young h...

Ecstasy is the story of young widow roused out of the torpor of her solitude by a dalliance with a courtly womanizer. It is written in a dreamily impressi...

Fifteen years earlier, doctorshad warned that Homer—atiny, sightless kitten—wasunlikely to survive and probablywouldn’t have much of a lifeeven if he did....

Once in nine lives, somethingextraordinary happens...The last thing Gwen Cooperwanted was another cat. Shealready had two, not tomention a phenomenally un...

Sarah Cooper is the founder of the super-popular satirical blog TheCooperReview.com about corporate culture and the world of high technology, which she is fa...

A person’s collision with history, with alien worlds, with new experiences that were previously unthinkable are collisions characteristic of fantastic litera...

This is a book from the “Classics at School” series, which contains all the works studied in elementary school, middle and high school. Don’t waste time sear...

Their meeting began with hatred. Having gone to Colorado on business, Grace planned to quickly settle all issues with her partner and return home. However, L...

“The Red Corsair” is one of the most famous sea novels by the classic of American literature J. F. Cooper. The hero of the novel, a pirate and a smuggler, an...

For twelve years now, the sorcerer Prospero has been living on a mysterious island inhabited by magical creatures, deprived of his crown and homeland by his ...

Green-eyed, fluffy Prudence is all that Laura has left of her mother... Family life is not going well, and her mother’s pet becomes the embodiment of love an...