Mark Leder
Petticoat Government, Volume 3
The adventures--in society, in love--of Judith Maitland conclude.
Petticoat Government, Volume 2
The further adventures of young Judith Maitland in the clerical close of Westhampton. - Summary by Mark Leder
The Ladies' Paradise, Book Eleven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)
This is the sequel to "Piping Hot!", so the eleventh volume in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle. This is the story of Octave Mouret, …
The Cloven Foot
John Traverton goes to visit his uncle Jasper. Jasper wishes John to marry his adopted daughter, Laura. If he does so within one calendar y…
Germinal, Book Thirteen in the Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2 in English)
Etienne Lantier (our line to the Rougon-Macquart Cycle) goes to work as a coal miner in the Northern France town of Montou. Conditions are …
Nana (Version 2), Book Nine of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Anna Coupeau, known as Nana, makes her debut in 1867 at the Theatre de Varietes, and is an instant sensation. It is as a prostitute, howeve…
Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
This, the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a sequel to "The Conquest of Plassans". Serge Mouret…
The Sense of the Past
Ralph Pendrel of New York City is bequested an 18th century house in London. He travels back in time and meets an ancestor of the same name…
L'Assommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Gervaise Macquart runs away to Paris with Lantier, to work as a washerwoman. Lantier abandons her and their two sons. She then marries the…
The Nature of a Crime
The first of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. On the verge of being found out in a matter of breach of fiduciary trust and fina…
The Fifth Queen Crowned
This is the final book of Ford's The Fifth Queen trilogy, a series of historical novels presenting a fictionalized version of the life of Ka…
The Wrong Twin
With their father Dave, a classic rolling stone, out on the road, twins Merle and Wilbur lead a haphazard life. But at least they have each…
L'Oeuvre (The Masterpiece), Book Fourteen of the Rougon-Macquart Cycle
In this, the 14th volume of his Rougon-Macquart cycle, Emile Zola depicts the life struggles of an artist, Claude Lantier--the elder brother…
Openings in the Old Trail
Nine short stories by Bret Harte who, in 1870, was the highest paid author in the U.S. Was he "a whispering pine of the Sierras, tran…
Piping Hot (Pot Bouille), Book Ten of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Covering a two-year period, Zola recounts the lives, intrigues, quarrel and loves of a group of five families all living in what was at the …
The Uncommercial Traveller (Version 2)
In 1859, Charles Dickens launched his own newspaper, "All the Year Round". Unsurprisingly, Dickens included many short pieces by-…