Category Archives: Sagas
The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald
Author(s): Anonymous A tale from Iceland, 800 years ago.In a dream of quarrels and deathThe...
The Frithiof Saga
Author(s): Ferdinand Schmidt Iceland is the home of the Saga, a form of literature which...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3
Author(s): Eliza Haywood Betsy Thoughtless is about marriage, rather than dealing with courtship and thus...
The Heavenly Twins
Author(s): Sarah Grand First published in 1893, this novel came to question many subjects which...
Policy and Passion
Author(s): Rosa Campbell Praed “Policy and Passion, a Novel of Australian Life” tells the story...
History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4
Author(s): Eliza Haywood Betsy Thoughtless is about an intelligent and strong-willed woman who marries under...
Joan Haste
Author(s): H. Rider Haggard A romantic melodrama and one of H. Rider Haggard’s most poignant...
Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes (Kirby translation)
Author(s): Elias Lönnrot The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias...
In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2)
Author(s): John Galsworthy ‘The Forsyte Saga’ is the story of a wealthy London family stretching...
Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende
Author(s): Jean-Bernard Mary-Lafon Taulat de Rugimon arrives at the court of King Arthur and stabs...
L’Assommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Author(s): Émile Zola Gervaise Macquart runs away to Paris with Lantier, to work as a...
His Excellency Eugene Rougon, A Realistic Novel
Author(s): Émile Zola Here, in Zola’s sixth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, we get to...
Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages
Author(s): Wilhelm Wägner This volume contains the principal hero-lays of the six great epic cycles...
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji)
Author(s): Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese...
Deirdre
Author(s): James Stephens Beautiful, playful young Deirdre, caught in the crosshairs of Ireland’s wily, chauvinistic...
Finnish Legends
Author(s): R. Eivind One dark winter’s day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks...
Amelia (Vol. 3)
Author(s): Henry Fielding Volume three in the trilogy entitled Amelia. A continuation of the love...