Expatriate
119 books
Historical Fiction
1000
Nikolai Chernyshevsky - Vital Question, or, What is to be Done?
Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth century tsarist Russia; translator Nathan Haskell Dole affirms in his...
18 hours 45 minutes
Travel Fiction
776
Dorothy Richardson - Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Vol. 1 (version 2)
«Pointed Roofs» is the first volume of «Pilgrimage,» a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson considered to have pioneered the «stream of consciousness» technique of writing. In a review of...
5 hours 56 minutes
Literary Fiction
875
Florence Roma Muir Wilson - Martin Schüler
Romer Wilson's first novel is a study in the life of Genius, a theme that would preoccupy her throughout her life. The eponymous Martin Schüler is a young German composer of genius in the years leading up to the Great...
6 hours 49 minutes
Literary Fiction
972
Florence Roma Muir Wilson - If All These Young Men
Another remarkable World War I novel by Romer Wilson, «If All These Young Men» is a character study of a group of young 20-something friends in England dealing with the looming, grey presence of the War in their...
6 hours 25 minutes
Sagas
795
Elias Lönnrot - Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes (Kirby translation)
The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. It is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland and is one of the most...
15 hours 37 minutes
