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George Bernard Shaw based his 1913 play "Pygmalion" on the Greek legend of the sculptor, Pygmalion. According to the classic tale, Pygmalion despised women but fell in love with his own sculpture of……続きを見る

“Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.” Virginia Woolf described George Eliot’s M……続きを見る

The House of the Vampire is one of the first psychic vampire stories where a vampire feeds off more than just blood. Not realizing that his mind is under the spell of a vampire, a young writer Ernes……続きを見る

Leone Leoni relates the dangerous passion of a woman for an Italian nobleman, whose personality closely mixes great virtues and destructive vices, including a passion for gambling. The plot begins i……続きを見る

He'd Set His Sights On Vengeance, But Was Blindsided By Love Or lust. Or something mighty powerful. Whatever it was, Gabriel Hart felt pulled toward Trina McCabe, a feisty miss with the prettiest po……続きを見る

Marcelo's story really began some 300 years before his birth when medieval Spain had the world’s single largest Jewish community. This was the “Golden Age” of Spain’s secular and Jewish achievements……続きを見る

"The Prince and the Nun is the finest thing I have read, combining history, characterization & erotica--believable erotica--in decades. Higher praise I don't think I could find for a litera……続きを見る

Table of Contents - Middlemarch Adam Bede The Lifted Veil The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe Romola Brother Jacob Felix Holt the Radical Daniel Deronda The Lifted Veil explore……続きを見る

George Eliot’s last novel represents the author’s summing up, the book in which she hoped to bring together all the values, ideals, and beliefs that had informed her earlier work. Daniel Deronda has……続きを見る

“No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.” A vivid, heart-shattering and unforgettable portrait of Vi……続きを見る

Le Dernier Amour - George Sand George Sand (1804 - 1876) est le pseudonyme d'Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, baronne Dudevant, romancière, auteur dramatique, critique littéraire française et journalis……続きを見る

The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior t……続きを見る

Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant was a French novelist and early feminist (prior to the invention of the word) who wrote under the pen name of George Sand. Her successful novels……続きを見る

Very likeable characters and setting make this romantic novel one of Barr's best. 続きを見る

A story of love behind a throne, telling how a young American met a lovely girl and followed her to a new and strange country. A thrilling, dashing narrative. 続きを見る

The first unpublished novel from the historical fiction legend, George Macdonald Fraser, featuring the unscrupulous and brilliantly entertaining pirate, Calico Jack Rackham. New Providence, 1720s. W……続きを見る

A thoroughly readable romance and tale of intrigue. 続きを見る

A biographical novel about the life and work of Dionysios Solomos, national poet of Greece. In 1818, after his studies in Italy, Dion Solomos returns to his hometown Zante.   In 1821, the……続きを見る

With her family's fortune in ruins, Harriet Handley has given up her aspirations of becoming an author. All effort must go to helping her pretty sister Sophie marry well. But when Sophie's wealthy b……続きを見る

FROM TEMPORARY ENGAGEMENT TO TRUE LOVE? Sophie Handley is a charming flirtーjust like the fiancée who jilted Charles Cantrill after he was wounded at Waterloo. Yet her assistance in helping veterans……続きを見る

Ensign James Rowland was fortunate to return from Waterloo unscathedーat least in body. But guilt from that terrible battle has left him almost mute and crushed in spirit. Only in the company of swe……続きを見る

‘From This Day Forward, You Are Mine.’ The moment Merewyn sets eyes on the warrior standing atop a Viking raiding ship something inside her stirs. By all rights she should fear him, should run from ……続きを見る

Fen Dysant has lost her job, her family and her identity. Yet when she meets the irresistible Joe Tregema, sparks fly and their passionate relationship almost helps her overcome the painful memories……続きを見る

The thrill of the chase! Patrick Hazard had a plan of action that took Hester by surprise. She hadn't intended falling in love with anyone, but Patrick wasn't content just to be friends–he wined and……続きを見る

Her Once And Future Fiancé It was a bold plan–become engaged to one man to avoid marrying another. Three years ago, Susannah Siddons had little choice. But with no communication since, she considers……続きを見る

‘You don't understand what you do to me.’ His whole life Gunnar has felt unworthy of love. But one unforgettable night his childhood sweetheart Kadlin offers herself to him. Knowing he will never tr……続きを見る

The Texan's Convenient Bride To bring his daughter home to Texas, widowed rancher Jack Burnett needs a wife. And the well-bred Ada Westmore, his neighbor's niece, will surely meet his father-in-law'……続きを見る

Mary Anne (alternatively Mary Ann or Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of th……続きを見る

This volume includes 6 Classic Western Stories by George W. Ogden (American authors): THE RUSTLER OF WIND RIVER THE DUKE OF CHIMNEY BUTTE TRAIL'S END FLOCKMASTER OF POISON CREEK THE BONDBOY CLAIM NU……続きを見る

By the author of Brewster's Millions, this is a tale of love and romance, and intrigue and suspense, by George Barr McCutcheon. 続きを見る