A Love Story (Oxford World’s Classics) by Émile ZolaRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 1.21 MBOverview: Helene Grandjean, an attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her only child, Jeanne. Jeanne is a delicate and nervous girl who jealously guards her mother’s affections. When Jeanne falls ill, she is attended by Dr Deberle, whose […]
Kamasutra (Oxford World’s Classics) by Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Wendy Doniger, Sudhir KakarRequirements: .ePUB reader, 16.69 MB, 21 March, 2002, 417 pages, RetailOverview: ‘When the wheel of sexual ecstasy is in full motion, there is no textbook at all, and no order.’ The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the […]
The Italian (Oxford World’s Classics) by Ann Radcliffe (Author), Nick Groom (Editor)Requirements: epub reader, 1.28mbOverview: Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further his own ends. His menacing presence dominates […]
Evelina (Oxford World’s Classics) by Frances Burney (Author), Edward A. Bloom (Editor), Vivien Jones (Introduction)Requirements: epub reader, 1.7mbOverview: Frances Burney’s first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine’s entry into society, womanhood and, […]
The Castle by Franz Kafka (Oxford World’s Classics)Requirements: ePUB Reader, 16.7 mbOverview: Kafka’s last novel, The Castle is set in a remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats. The novel breaks new ground in exploring the relation between the individual and power, […]