The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle and W. W. Robson (ed.)
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were ...
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Chance: A Tale in two parts
Joseph Conrad and Martin Ray (ed.)
Chance (1914) was the first of Conrad’s novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and ...
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Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey and John Sutherland (ed.)
Lytton Strachey’s biographical essays on four ‘eminent Victorians’ dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern biography and ...
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The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim and Isobel Maddison (ed.)
Four very different women—the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher, and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline ...
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The End of the Tether: and Other Tales
Joseph Conrad and Philip Davis (ed.)
This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily forced into confrontation with a terrifying universe in which they can never be wholly at ...
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The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells and Simon J. James (ed.)
As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation ...
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The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy and Geoffrey Harvey (ed.)
The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the ...
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Greenmantle
John Buchan and Kate Macdonald (ed.)
In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan’s ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (2 ed.)
Arthur Conan Doyle and Darryl Jones (ed.)
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle and W. W. Robson (ed.)
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor hold ...
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Huntingtower
John Buchan and Ann F. Stonehouse (ed.)
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his ...
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Jacob’s Room
Virginia Woolf and Urmila Seshagiri (ed.)
Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf’s third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit ...
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Journals: Captain Scott’s Last Expedition
Robert Falcon Scott and Max Jones (ed.)
Captain Scott’s harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party’s optimistic departure from New ...
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Just So Stories: for Little Children
Rudyard Kipling and Lisa Lewis (ed.)
How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. ...
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Lord Jim: A Tale
Joseph Conrad and Jacques Berthoud (ed.)
‘To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be ...
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The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Duncan (ed.)
‘The ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would ...
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The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
‘I shall never forget the day I wrote “The Mark on the Wall” - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. “The Unwritten Novel” was the great discovery, ...
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Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of ...
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