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Alice, or the Mysteries
Published in 1838, "e;Alice, or The Mysteries"e; picks up the story of the disenchanted poet-gone-politician-gone-recluse Ernest Maltravers, his early love Alice Darvil and …
Pilgrims of the Rhine
Excerpt: "e;In one of those green woods which belong so peculiarly to our island (for the Continent has its forests, but England its woods) there lived, a short time ago, a …
Coming Race
From Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth to Rudy Rucker's The Hollow Earth, subterranean worlds have been a source of both fascination and fear for the literary …
Night and Morning
Night and Morning was reviewed by Edgar Allan Poe in the same issue of Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine in which appeared Poe's "e;The Murders in the Rue Morgue,"e; …
Strange Story
Excerpt: "e;In the year 18- I settled as a physician at one of the wealthiest of our great English towns, which I will designate by the initial L--. I was yet young, but I had …
Zicci A Tale Complete
Excerpt: "e;In the gardens at Naples, one summer evening in the last century, some four or five gentlemen were seated under a tree drinking their sherbet and listening, in the …
Rienzi, The Last of the Roman Tribunes
Excerpt: "e;The celebrated name which forms the title to this work will sufficiently apprise the reader that it is in the earlier half of the fourteenth century that my story …
Kenelm Chillingly
Kenelm Chillingly is the son of noble parents, but he doesn't seem to quite fit in. Too philosophical for his own good, really. His father feels he should embark on a Grand Tour, …
Pelham Complete
Excerpt: "e;Ou peut-on etre mieux qu'au sein de sa famille?-French Song. [Where can one be better than in the bosom of one's family?] I am an only child. My father was the …
Godolphin, Complete
Excerpt: "e;The rich moonlight that now shone through the windows streamed on little that it could invest with poetical attraction.The room was small, though not squalid in its …