Literature - Realistic

The Dogs Bark

The title is a reference to Don Quixote's telling to Sancho “ they bark, therefore we ride”, which has passed into popular...

Mr. Harrison’s Confessions

The arrival to an imaginary village of a recently licensed doctor of London enables the author to show us the customs of rural England during the 1800s and the trouble that comments can cause in a small...

The Land Where Lemons Grow

Helena Attle is an English writer who has worked for thirty years in Italy, an expert in gardens. In this book, she manages to infect the reader with her passion for Italy and, more specifically, for its...

Washington Square

Novel set in New York, at the end of the 19th century. Dr. Sloper is a prestigious doctor, married to a young woman of high society. He has his clientele among that public. They had a son who died at the...

A simple heart

Short story of great literary quality. It tells the story of Félicité, an affable, seemingly insignificant person, who was employed for years as a domestic servant in a rural region of northwestern France...

The House of Special Purpose

A book set in three moments of the 20th century; one before 1917, another around that year and a third, years later, until 1981. Georgi is a young man from a Russian village. The passing of a nobleman, a...

O, The Brave Music

Oh, how splendid the splendid music of childhood days, when everything was immense, the whole world was a paradise to be explored and the passage of time, an endless succession of exciting discoveries! Ruan...

The Red Badge of Courage

Neo-realist novel, set in the American Civil War. The story is told from the point of view of a recruit going to his first battle. Everything is seen through the eyes of the soldier, his thoughts and...

Heart and science

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is the great master of intrigue and pioneer of the detective novel. He proves it again in Heart and Science, where he combines a romantic plot with the question of the limits of...