H.C. Andersen 
Le Coq de poulailler et le coq de girouette 

"Dead Men Tell No Tales" by way of E. W. Hornung delves into the existence of A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief, and his dependable partner Bunny Manders. The novel unfolds as Raffles and …

E. Phillips Oppenheim’s "A Millionaire of Yesterday" was first released in 1900. The book follows the story of a young man’s struggle for fortune in colonial Africa and his quest for …

Rafael Sabatini, an Italian-born British author, wrote the 1906 historical adventure book Bardelys the Magnificent. It is a wonderful story of romance and adventure set in early seventeenth-century …

The Illustrious Prince is an interesting and mysterious novel written by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The novel was written more than 30 years before Pearl Harbor and four years before World War I began. …

Rafael Sabatini penned the historical novel Bellarion the Fortunate. The story opens with Bellarion, a young man who was abandoned as a child and educated in an abbey, leaving with a letter of …

The Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy includes the novel The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story begins in Paris in April 1794, when Theresia Cabarrus is betrothed to Citizen …

"The Cricket on the Hearth" is a novella written by Charles Dickens. The Peerybingle family and their lovely home, where a joyful cricket dwells on the hearth, are the focus of this …

"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" by Kate Douglas Wiggin is a classic novel that follows the heartwarming story of Rebecca Rowena Randall, an imaginative and spirited young girl. Rebecca’s trip …

”The Virgin and the Gipsy”, written as a brief fiction titled by English novelist D.H. Lawrence, was posthumously released in 1930. Due to the spelling of "Gipsy" in the original and …

St. Martin’s Summer is a fictional novel written by an Italian-British writer Rafael Sabatini. An heiress’s life is in jeopardy, and her only chance of survival is to put her faith in the wits of a …