Lytton: 593 books

Mr J, blind from birth, tells the story of his life and loves and peculiar friendships among the English colony at the Cape. His method is to imitate the random action of memory, choosing those episodes which reveal most clearly the strange elements of his society and his own eccentric response to...

A small-town shopkeeper in the Orange Free State points a revolver at the South African Prime Minister. He is detained and questioned, but his eccentric explanations fail to provide the police with the neat motive they are searching for and he is judged insane. Yet Ebon Prinsloo's gesture of violence...

The third book in this fun series that's perfect for younger fans of the Dork Diaries and Story Thieves series. Ruby Starr is an older Junie B. Jones with a big imagination and a love of reading. Ruby Starr is feeling fabulous after helping save her school's library and creating the world's...

This work is largely based on what has been a mammoth-one person called it a "heroic" -research project. Both fieldwork and data analyses were laborious and time-consuming, and the work could not have come to fruition without the cooperation of many people. Above all, I owe a debt of gratitude...

Pubblicato nel 1928, il libro è uno dei più celebri e avvincenti racconti della relazione tra Elisabetta I, regina d’Inghilterra, e Robert Devereux, conte di Essex. Il loro rapporto ha inizio nel maggio del 1587, quando lei ha cinquantatré anni e lui è appena ventenne, e si protrae fino al 1601,...

Un romanzo o un trattato politico? Certamente una piacevole dissertazione sui temi della convivenza civile, se non uno studio impegnato sui difetti di una democrazia immatura e puramente formale (quella americana), troppo “giovane” per l’esperienza di un Pari d’Inghilterra colto e smaliziato....

IT was towards the evening of a day in early April that two ladies were seated by the open windows of a cottage in Devonshire. The lawn before them was gay with evergreens, relieved by the first few flowers and fresh turf of the reviving spring; and at a distance, through an opening amongst the trees,...

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 acquired some reputation by a professional work, which is, I believe, still amongst the received authorities on the subject of which it...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were...