The Tin Drum

Günter Grass

Contemporary Fiction

Meet Oskar Matzerath, “the eternal three-year-old drummer.” On the morning of his third birthday, dressed in a

german, historical, magicrealism

The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci

Dmitri Merejkowski

Classic Fiction

How Leonardo da Vinci become a creative genius? How did he live, love, suffer? With a care for detail & an insp

art, christian, dissident, historical, russian, symbolism

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

Classic Fiction

The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (aka Moll Flanders) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first pu

18thcentury, british, historical, novel

Baudolino

Umberto Eco

Contemporary Fiction

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned

historical, italian, semiotics

Ragtime

E L Doctorow

Contemporary Fiction

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtim

america, film, historical

I, Claudius

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius

Robert Graves

Contemporary Fiction

Into the autobiography of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite

caesar, historical, history, roman

Claudius The God

And His Wife Messalina

Robert Graves

Classic Fiction

Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself. Captures the

caesar, historical, history, roman

A Maggot

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mys

historical, mystery, postmodern, satan

The French Lietenants Woman

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorsets Lyme Bay…the largest bite from the underside of Englands ou

film, historical, postmodern

A Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe

Classic Fiction

In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year,

england, historical, london, pandemic, plague

The Last Days of Pompeii

Edward Bulwer Lytton

Classic Fiction

The Last Days of Pompeii was one of the most popular English historical novels of the nineteenth century. It te

christian, historical, rome

The Captain’s Daughter and Other Stories

Alexander Pushkin

Classic Fiction

Pushkins version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also reflects his

collection, historical, romantic, russia, russian, shortstories

The Sot-Weed Factor

John Barth

Contemporary Fiction

Considered by critics to be Barths most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status

america, historical, history