D.O - Fiction & Literature 96

Bethia Pepperell was an heiress, courted by men in the highest ranks of society. Digory Rendel did not belong in her world, nor did she belong in his world of smugglers and spies. But someone in her……続きを見る

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler Dr John Watson……続きを見る

Part of the elegant Knickerbocker Classics series, The Complete Sherlock Holmes is comprised of 4 full-length novels and 56 short stories featuring the world's most famous pipe-smoking detective. Wr……続きを見る

This is a beautiful, moving tale from the bestselling author of the "Flashman Papers". To the young Lady Margaret Dacre, raised in the rich security of Queen Elizabeth's court, the Scottish border w……続きを見る

George MacDonald Fraser’s hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army – collected together for the first time in one volume. Private McAuslan, J., the Dirtiest Soldier in th……続きを見る

‘A great read, a moving story of family history, love deception, passion and heartbreak’ Cornwall Today Two women, living more than a hundreds years apart yet against the same wild backdrop of sea a……続きを見る

Poor Folk , sometimes translated as Poor People, is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoyevsky was in financial difficulty because……続きを見る

Gone is the contained, brooding, dream-prone atmopshere of his earlier stories; instead "Uncle's Dreams" is narrated with firm objectivity, combining satire, social reportage, puppet theatre and far……続きを見る

Book 4 of the Day Soldiers series. The war against the vampires has been over for sixteen years. Humans control the American continents. Werewolves control the forests. Vampires control the rest of ……続きを見る

Climate change has scorched the planet, leaving an environment that can barely support life. Relatively few survivors live a stark existence in widely separated villages. They are dominated by NOY, ……続きを見る

"One can perceive life as trying to make sense of the confusion that is known as experience." It's been three months since the motley crew of aliens started living at Kenaeth Goldwrite's house. They……続きを見る

this is a collection of a few of my best poetry. there is no real theme behind it, so enjoy. 続きを見る

Edward Owen, author of “The GAME” and “The Chronicles of Alcamene” delivers horror by the half dozen, each with a lesson in cosmic justice. The Quiet Car –When his car breaks down, Tom Roman is forc……続きを見る

This is the life story of a woman called Lady Cholita, who grew up in a gang. it is written in the style of a journal. It is the work of my imagination, any similarities to anyone is pure coincidenc……続きを見る

Ever since I began writing short stories, people have been telling me they never know which of my characters are real and which are purely fictional. The simple answer of course, is that they are al……続きを見る

This is a collection of Japanese fairy tales translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki based on a version written in Japanese by Sadanami Sanjin. According to Ozaki, “These stories are not literal translatio……続きを見る

Humiliated and Insulted , also known in English as The Insulted and Humiliated, The Insulted and the Injured or Injury and Insult, is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1861 in the mo……続きを見る

In 1993 Freya Prentiss returns to Australia after a whirlwind courtship and marriage in Scotland, looking forward to merging motherhood with meaningful work. Elated about reuniting with her own fami……続きを見る

The one and only Fay Weldon tells the story of her turbulent and controversial life. From the 1930s to the 2000s, Fay Weldon has seen and lived our times. As a child in New Zealand, young and poor i……続きを見る

After her life as she knows it ends in heartbreak, Mary Rasmussen, a strong-willed and independent young ranch woman living in the Sandhills of western Nebraska, suddenly feels that everything she h……続きを見る

Private McAuslan was ‘the biggest walking disaster to hit the Army’. Loosely based on his own experiences in a Scottish regiment, and written with rare humour, a sense of the ludicrous and real affe……続きを見る

A town that had a man for breakfast every morning. That's how Tombstone, Arizona was described in the late-1800s, bolstering the myth that a corpse would be found cooling in the town's dusty streets……続きを見る

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. This study focuses on the Japanese particle mo. The particle is probably best described as roug……続きを見る

The Idiot is a novel written by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in The Russian Messenger between 1868 and 1869. The Idiot, alongside some of Dosto……続きを見る

First Published in 2002. The Italian phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico, or sometimes raddoppiamento fonosintattico, has received a vast amount of attention. Long recognized in Italian gr……続きを見る

Sins of the Fathers considers sins as nodes of cultural anxiety and explores the tensions between competing organizational categories for moral thought and behaviours, namely the Seven Deadly Sins a……続きを見る

This collection brings together three of Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s most acclaimed novels. Her first novel, The Grass is Singing, is the story of Mary, a new wife, lonely and trapped in the ……続きを見る

Travel around the world with Jack London, the famed master of the action-adventure genre who penned the beloved novel Call of the Wild. This collection of rollicking and thought-provoking tales incl……続きを見る

"All Miles and Janine ever did was play... In all honesty, it may have been the only thing keeping them together." Miles and Janine were accustomed to spending every waking moment with each other, b……続きを見る

"Celestina," or the "Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea and the old prostitute Celestina," is a late 15th century work by Fernando de Rojas that is considered one of the greatest works of Spanish li……続きを見る