The Tavern Knight

By: Rafael Sabatini

He whom they called the Tavern Knight laughed an evil laugh - such a laugh as the pious might conceive on the lips of Satan.' Thus begins Sabatini's masterful romance of the life of a Tavern King - a story of swashbuckling adventure and murderous action. Unusually for Sabatini, he has turned to English history to provide the backdrop for this thrilling tale.

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The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas père

Dramatic, stirring, and romantic, the story of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and their famous code of "one for all and all for one," remains an unsurpassed tale of adventure and heroism.

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The Trumpet-Major

By: Thomas Hardy

Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet Major, the tale of a woman courted by three competing suitors during the Napoleonic wars, he explores the subversive effects of ordinary human desire and conflicting loyalties on systematized versions of history.

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The Two Guardians

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

Throughout these tales the plan has been to present a picture of ordinary life, with its small daily events, its pleasures, and its trials, so as to draw out its capabilities of being turned to the best account.

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The Unbearable Bassington

By: Saki

The first thing which makes The Unbearable Bassington different is that Comus is not the sardonic observer that Reginald is. There is plenty of dissection of the foolishness of high society, but Comus is not the dissector. What makes The Unbearable Bassington more than social satire is the quite extraordinary power of the ending, which is extremely effective.

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

This is the fourth and final volume of the first annotated edition of Dickens' Journalism. It gathers together for the first time articles, essays and recollections published during the last decade of Dickens' life, before his untimely death in 1870, and represents the culmination of a lifetime's work in popular journalism.

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The Victim

By: Thomas Dixon

The popular epics were written in assonating lines of variable length. There were also numerous monkish narrative poems in stanzas of four Alexandrine lines each, all rhyming.

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The Virginian, A Horseman Of The Plainsr

By: Owen Wister

The novel that created the icon of the lonely, chivalrous american cowboy, the virginian is owen wister's well-written western adventure tale of the quiet,tough virginian cowboy, his tenderfoot friend, his schoolmarm bride, and their lives in the already dying frontier.

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf's haunting first novel follows Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their young niece on a sea voyage from London to South America.

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The Warden

By: Anthony Trollope

It refers to the quiet life of an English clergyman which is disturbed by rumors about the source of his income.

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