"The story's plot follows four characters rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope---a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love triangle between beautiful but thoughtless Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her, Adam Bede, her unacknowledged lover, and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent Methodist lay preacher."--Amazon.com George Eliot's first full-length...

"Essays" by Robert Louis Stevenson is a remarkable collection that showcases the author's profound ability to engage readers with his insightful observations and articulate prose. Stevenson's essays delve into a variety of topics, reflecting his diverse interests and acute awareness of the world around him. His writing is characterized by a blend of wit, wisdom, and a keen eye for detail, which together create a compelling and thought-provoking reading...

The bored wife of a bumbling provincial physician, Emma seeks to escape from the tedium of her life with romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs, but is ultimately doomed to disillusionment. Unable to come to terms with reality, Emma is a figure at once noble and banal, tragic and absurd. With her wrenching story, Flaubert forged an unforgettable classic that has remained one of the most admired and influential novels ever written. That peerless...

Based on the editor's The philosophy of Hobbes in extracts and notes collated from his writings,published in 1903.