The third and final volume of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s celebrated Emily trilogy, Emily’s Quest is a vigorously drawn study of a woman coming to terms with love and her own ambition. In no other novel did Montgomery explore more fully the beauty, complexity, and wonder of love. In every detail, this mature novel, by one of the world’s best-loved authors, captures the drama and confusion of a young life on the brink.Along with Emily of New Moon and Emily Climbs

Precocious in childhood, irrepressible in old age, Miss Topaz Edgeworth’s singular accomplishment is to live out an entire century in unflagging – and mostly oblivious – optimism. At once outmoded and unconventional, tyrannical and benign, Topaz leads a largely unexamined life. But the magical quality of her consciousness, revealed through stunning narrative technique, makes her into one of the most delightful characters in Canadian literature. Published in 1949, The Innocent Traveller...

P.K. Page is best known as one of Canada's finest poets, but over the course of her career she has also written a number of essays – meditations – on her life and work, on the nature of art and the imagination, and on Canadian works of literature, painting, and film that have had special significance for her. As lovers of her poetry would hope and expect, these essays are beautiful, intelligent, moving, and delightfully quirky. The Filled Pen brings together the most important of ...

The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf gathers the fiction, essays, criticism, and autobiographical writings of one of modernism's most searching minds. From the luminous interiority of Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse to the experimental historical playfulness of Orlando and the polemical clarity of A Room of One's Own, Woolf's prose reshapes narrative around consciousness, time, gender, and perception. Her style—lyrical, fragmentary, ironic, and philosophically alert—stands at the center...

In 'The Tailor of Gloucester,' Beatrix Potter weaves a delightful tale that captures the imagination with its intricate narrative and charming illustrations. Set in the picturesque English town of Gloucester, the story follows a kind-hearted tailor who faces a daunting challenge as Christmas approaches. Potter's prose is infused with rich descriptions and anthropomorphic characters, reflecting her keen observations of nature and rural life, which were hallmarks of the Edwardian literary co...

**From the New York Times bestselling author of The Saving Graces and Flight Lessons comes Book II of the Wyckerley Trilogy…To Have and to Hold**Suave, cynical, and too handsome for his own good, Sebastian Verlaine never expected to become a magistrate judging the petty crimes of his tenants and neighbors. Nor can the new Viscount D’Aubrey foresee that, when a fallen woman appears before him, he’ll find himself beguiled against all reason...

The Collected Early Writings gathers Virginia Woolf's apprentice work—juvenilia, sketches, reviews, essays, and early fiction—that reveals the formation of one of modernism's most distinctive minds. These pieces move between satire, observation, literary criticism, and narrative experiment, often displaying the wit, social acuity, and rhythmic prose that would later mature in Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves. Read in literary context, the volume illuminates Woolf's transition...

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories gathers Virginia Woolf's brief fictions into a luminous study of perception, memory, and the unseen pressures beneath ordinary life. From the spectral tenderness of the title story to the social unease of "The New Dress" and the visionary compression of "Kew Gardens," Woolf replaces conventional plot with rhythm, image, and shifting consciousness. These stories belong to the high modernist moment, yet they also converse with impressionism, symbolism,...

Three Houses by Angela Thirkell is a delightful and gently satirical novel set in the familiar world of Barsetshire, where the lives of its residents unfold through everyday encounters, social obligations, and quiet personal dramas. The story weaves together the lives connected to three households, each representing a different facet of English society. Through these settings, Thirkell explores relationships, generational contrasts, and the subtle tensions between tradition and change. Her...

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we examine some of the short stories of Virginia Woolf. Adeline Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 and...

'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the season. Dickens's other Christmas writings collected here include 'The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton'; 'The Haunted Man'; and shorter pieces, some drawn from the 'Chris...