A young nobleman engages in picaresque adventures across Italy.

After coming into his fortune and evading his uncle’s schemes, young gentleman David Balfour continues his adventures in 18th century Scotland, helping a politically unwelcome friend escape into France, avoiding the hangman himself, finding his place as a gentleman in Edinburgh society, and falling in love with the daughter of a notorious Macgregor clansman.

After his parents die, a young Scottish man travels to see his only remaining relative, expecting to be welcomed, but instead finds his life and liberty in grave danger.

A prince who neglects to rule his kingdom finds that he is about to be deposed.

During the War of the Roses, a young knight must rescue his lady and find out who killed his father.

The relationship of two noble brothers is blighted by hostility and vengeance in Jacobite Scotland.

A young boy finds adventure on the high seas as he battles bloodthirsty pirates in search of a long-lost treasure.

An ancient undead monster terrorizes Victorian London.

A writer succumbing to mania tries to find a path out through occultism and religion, in Strindberg’s semi-autobiographical novel.

A civil servant tired of bureaucracy quits his job to become a writer, and falls in with a group of artists and philosophers.

A socialite starts an affair with a cavalry officer, against a backdrop of wealthy family life in Imperialist Russia.

The legendary warrior Hadji Murád struggles to free his family against the backdrop of Russian imperialism in Chechnya and Dagestan.