11 stories
-
Anthony Trollope-
1.1K
-
81 parts
A creeping dread clings to the ancient manor of the Duke of Silverbridge, not from specters or hauntings, but from the suffocating weight of... -
-
Margaret Oliphant-
664
-
53 parts
A perpetual twilight clings to the Marjoribanks estate, a damp, grey weight pressing on the shoulders of Highgate. The novel breathes with t... -
-
Booth Tarkington-
617
-
26 parts
Dust motes dance in the perpetual twilight of a Midwestern drawing-room, mirroring the slow decay of Alice Adams’ spirit. The novel breathes... -
-
Charles Dickens-
602
-
58 parts
A creeping fog, thick with the scent of brine and decay, clings to the cobbled streets of a London choked by ambition and shadowed by avaric... -
-
Edward Noyes Westcott-
591
-
52 parts
The shadowed lanes of rural New England conceal more than just autumn leaves. Old Man Harum, a figure woven into the very fabric of the coun... -
-
Virginia Woolf-
586
-
37 parts
A London suffocated by fog and shadowed by unspoken desires. The narrative drifts between the sun-drenched clarity of reason and the moon-ha... -
-
William Dean Howells-
542
-
28 parts
A creeping fog of respectability, laced with the rot of ambition. The story exhales from shadowed parlors and granite-hearted counting house... -
-
Anthony Trollope-
389
-
31 parts
A creeping dread settles over the Yorkshire moors as Rachel Ray, a woman possessed of a quiet desperation, navigates a life hemmed in by exp... -
-
William Dean Howells-
381
-
25 parts
A creeping autumnal melancholy clings to the decaying grandeur of the Northland estate. The air, thick with the scent of dying leaves and da... -
-
Elizabeth Gaskell-
261
-
17 parts
A perpetual twilight clings to Cranford, a village woven from lace and whispers. Cobwebs bloom in shadowed parlours where elderly ladies, de... -
-
Dorothy Canfield Fisher-
208
-
12 parts
A chill wind whispers through the skeletal branches of New England birches, mirroring the isolation tightening around Betsy Ray. Not a tale ... -