The Inevitable, The Law Inevitable or Inevitable, is a novel by Dutch author Louis Couperus, published in 1900. It was first translated into English b...
When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spe...
Annie Besant - a well-known British women's rights activist - lays down British marriage laws as they were at her time. She opposes the view of marrie...
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Pari...
This novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due to its treatment of drug abuse, mer...
Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris. New Yorker John Durham travels to Paris to woo an old flame, Fan...
This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, including his...
A London Life is a novella by Henry James, first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1888. The plot revolves around a crumbling marriage and its impac...
The Young Idea is a play about two siblings, Gerda eighteen and Sholto twenty-one, who attempt to engineer the reconciliation of their divorced parent...
This volume of The Age of the Puritans begins with William Perkin's concise summary of Christian doctrine written in response to popular misconception...
In the tumultuous era of Tudor England, a mighty king's pursuit of love and power ignited a religious and political storm that shook the foundations o...
