But there is something else, something very strange going on here .
His mother calls him from daydreams to go to school.
Dave Saren has a past riddled with drugs and booze, one he’s trying hard to overcome.
Abandoned by her husband after receiving a fatal medical diagnosis.
These two stories by Koos Rozemond, with English translations by Aart van den End.
Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.
George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, orginally published in 1860 as three volumes, tells of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up upon the River Floss.
British writer John Buchan's Greenmantle is the second of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.
Adam Bede follows the lives of a fictional rural community.
On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives.
The fifth book in the popular Barsoom series, The Chessmen of Mars is a 1922 science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
A daughter inherits her father's miserliness, which stifles her relationship with her cousin, making love an unsatisfying experience.
The Secret Sharer contains many of Conrad's favorite motifs.
A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century.
My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works.
Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister who faces financial ruin.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge opens with the story's hero, Peyton Farquhar, hanging bound from a bridge, awaiting hanging.
Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy follows a young Englishman, Frank Osbaldistone, to Scotland, where he travels to retrieve a debt.
The young orphan Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt in a dour New England town.
Lady Audley's Secret was one of the first and most successful sensation novels of the late 19th century. A young gentleman of leisure, Robert Audley, is spurred into action when his friend Geroge Talboys goes missing from Audley Court.