Classic Love

After vowing to avoid women, the king and three of his friends have to host a princess and her three ladies. The four men fall in love and decide to court the women. In the end, the women must return to their kingdom for a year after which they will marry the king and his friends, providing they remain true to them.

Full of irony, this comedy of manners satirizes the self-deception of vanity. Emma presents a picture of mixed family and social life as did Pride and Prejudice, though mellowed by a riper humor. Emma equals Pride and Prejudice in its rich humor and vivid portraiture of character. It is a never ending delight in human absurdities, which the fascinated listener shares from chapter to chapter.

Sublime Funeral is a brief, serene, and powerful story about how family becomes support, guidance, and meaning. Beyond the loss that sets the journey in motion, what truly shines is the way familial bonds hold, structure, and dignify life, even in its most difficult moments. With sober and sensitive prose, G. G. Melies portrays the silent path of a community that needs no words to express the essential. In every gesture, in every shared glance, a way of being in the world is revealed: through presence, support, and care. Sublime Funeral is a delicate portrait of a culture where familial ...

After surviving a nearly insurmountable peril, a starship captain returns to Earth with his badly distressed ship and remaining crew and passengers in hyper sleep over three hundred years after they were believed to be destroyed and finds his most perilous trial. In humanity’s drive towards individuality by being like everyone else, due to genetic manipulation there are only 33 standard female and male models and he and his crew will be made beautiful like everyone else unless he can figure out a way to stop it.

A Kasey Michaels Alphabet Regency Romance. Zachary St. John, Earl of Royston, didn't know he was looking for a wife when he encountered Miss Samantha Ardsley. Samantha didn't care about Zachary's title or consequence and certainly didn't wish to be married to him. But married they became nonetheless. What neither of them expected was to tumble into love. Kasey Michaels Alphabet Regency Romance Titles: The Belligerent Miss Boynton The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane The Rambunctious Lady Royston The Lurid Lady Lockport The Savage Miss Saxon The Questioning Miss Quinton The Mischievous Miss Murphy ...

"While known for beautifully observed works of social realism in the decades leading up to the Russian revolution, Ivan Turgenev, in this acclaimed tale, depicts a revolution of another kind: the electrifying transformation of a young man`s first love."

Years before his marriage to Olga Knipper and his self-imposed medical exile to Yalta, years before he even began writing the seminal works of dramatic literature for which he is renowned, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, to support his financially and physically struggling family, wrote stories...many, many stories. Starting in his early 20s, living in Moscow, he made a name for himself by capturing the peculiarities of Russian life through satire, humor, pathos, and passion. Myriad influences inspired his eventual words for the stage.

Discover the stories inspired by some of the greatest songs of all time. Dark fiction that will keep you turning the pages as you read stories influenced by songs like Satisfaction, Angie Baby, She Loves You, Maggie Mae, The Hotel California and more. Dark stories inspired by dark lyrics that tell the tales hidden behind the popular melodies that are so familiar to us all. Ten different authors bring you their literary visions provoked by their favorite song lyrics to create a chilling read you will not soon forget. Experience the insanity of a young woman who seeks refuge from reality in ...

The novel focuses on love, society norms, and freedom, centered on Anna’s affair with Count Vronsky.

It’s the 1980s and Imogene Ryan, a romantic, is in search of her soul mate in the great city of Manhattan. She thinks she may have found that soul mate when she meets Christopher McDowell, but there’s one complication. Christopher is a vampire.

In 1966 Jerusalem is a sleepy backwater, but the students at the university are determined to enjoy themselves while being politically involved and benefiting from the throbbing night life. Three graduate students – Brian from Australia, Batsheva from the U.S.A., and Cynthia from England – are trying to complete their studies. Since all three are originally from English-speaking countries, they spend their coffee-breaks together and do their best to cope with life in their adoptive country. Their relations with the local population vary from fraught to friendly, as they find themselves ...

Zuleika Dobson, internationally famous prestidigitator visits her grandfather, the Warden of Judas College, Oxford. But Zuleika, "though not strictly beautiful" is a devastatingly attractive young woman, and proves utterly irresistible among the all-male undergraduate body - including the snobbish and trend-setting young Duke of Dorset. Thus begins a chain of events that culminates in a very watery end to the Eights Week boat races...

Introducing West to the Canyons, by Ken Cannon, set in the Rugged Terrain of the American West, this novel will take you on an adventurous journey through the breathtaking canyons and valleys of Arizona. With powerful storytelling and gripping characters, this is the perfect read for anyone who loves a good Western adventure. The story revolves around Karen Oakman, a wealthy and independent young woman from New York City. Karen is a successful, ambitious, and self-absorbed socialite who leads a glamorous but unfulfilling life. However, her world is turned upside down when circumstances ...

No one cared to give her a name. And his came with the weight of the world. Welcome to Thornfield where two lost souls are destined to love…no matter the cost. Orphaned as a child, Jane Doe has nothing, but desires everything life has to offer. When she’s offered work at Thornfield, a grand English manor turned hotel, she meets her match in the dark and brooding proprietor, Edward Rochester. He’s arrogant, moody, and hurtful, but as Jane’s attraction grows for this strange and powerful man, so does her spirit. Soon enough, tensions rise to breaking point, and they become embroiled ...

When six undercover FBI agents are brutally killed, former conman turned consultant, Patrick Daley, and Detective Elizabeth Shea are called in to assist the FBI. Their romantic relationship is still new, and keeping her trust is paramount, especially after they learn they'll be working with Elizabeth's ex, Agent James Finley--a man whose picture appears next to the word trustworthy in the dictionary. To keep her, Patrick needs to be an angel. But to solve this case, he must act the devil. Spying on people through the back door security feed of a five-star hotel might not be conducive to ...

Women in Love (1920) is a novel by English author D. H. Lawrence. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula Brangwen and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions associated with the author.

The unexpected discovery in 2009 of a completed manuscript of Claude McKay's final novel was celebrated as one of the most significant literary events in recent years. Building on the already extraordinary legacy of McKay's life and work, this colorful, dramatic novel centers on the efforts by Harlem intelligentsia to organize support for the liberation of fascist-controlled Ethiopia, a crucial but largely forgotten event in American history.

"Love and Freindship" [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of 11 until she was 18, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum. They contain, among other works, "Love and Freindship", written when she was 14, and "The History of England", written when she was 15.

A FLEDGLING GODDESS MUST STEAL BACK HER POWER FROM A RUTHLESS KING. During her first testing at the sacred pool of her ancestors, Reawen learns she must steal back the green stone that confirms her mystical power. The stone was stolen from her mother by Brone, the country’s king. Cheated of her birthright as Domis of the Peninsula's Waters, Reawen sets off to track Brone, the ruthless, golden-haired ruler who wears the stolen sacred stones of the four Domi. But Brone wields their power at a terrible price. He has many enemies who seek to destroy him and gain the stones for themselves. The...

In this amusing story we meet the character of Diego, a young man who is rejected by the girl of his dreams. In exile in the mountains to clear his head he meets Don Quixote and Sancho and joins up with them in a quest for adventure but soon enough he meets a new girl, who may replace the old one, and become the love of his life.