Diamond Dyke: The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure
by George Manville Fenn
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Ed. with Notes and Intr. Memoir by A.W. Ward
by Alexander Pope
Freya of the Seven Isles (Classic Book, #84) (The Art of the Novella)
by Joseph Conrad
There is a degree of bliss too intense for elation. This little-known novella from one of the masters of the form is so unusual for Joseph Conrad's work in several respects, although not in its exotic maritime setting or its even more exotic proseāit is unusual in that it is one of his very few works to feature a woman as a leading character, and to take the form of a romance. Still, it's a Conradian romance: a sweeping saga set in the Indian Ocean basin, against a turbulent background o...
A heartwarming story set in old London about the life of an aging Grandfather caring for his small granddaughter who shows up unexpectedly at his door.
Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts: Volume IV
Kathryn Sutherland presents an edition of the fiction manuscripts of Jane Austen (1775-1817). Scholars have pored over this much-loved novelist for decades, yet there are still more riches to be uncovered by the careful presentation of the texts in this fully annotated new edition. Jane Austen's fiction manuscripts are the first substantial collection of autograph writings to survive for a British novelist. They represent every stage of her writing life, from childhood-aged 11 or 12-to the year...
Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1 (Virginia Woolf: Proceedings of Annual Conference (Selected P)
Essays and Tales & Days with Sir Roger de Coverley
by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others
by George Manville Fenn
Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O. M., Litt. D.
by Caroline Jebb A W Verrall
Set mainly in Scotland during the early part of the last century, When Dark Clouds Pass revolves around the lives of two brothers born into a close-knit mining community. The protagonist, Iain Baird, despises his younger sibling, Alastair, and is jealous of the alleged favouritism he receives. Following the death of their father in a mining accident, Iain is held responsible and is forced to leave the village. He finds employment in a Glasgow shipyard, and later in a munitions works where he...
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other w...
Synge's topographical essays appear here in their original newspaper and periodical publication form, taken from the Manchester Guardian, The Gael and The Shanachie, complete with illustrations, mostly by Jack B. Yeats. A substantial essay-introduction by Nicholas Grene places his work in its historical context (1898-1908) and evokes the man and his milieu. Synge's writings explore social, political and aesthetic perspectives gained from his travels on the Atlantic seaboard and among the Wicklow...