The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

Anne severn and the fieldings explores emotional recovery, memory, and psychological growth through the experience of a young woman entering a familiar household after personal loss. The narrative studies how grief reshapes perception and relationship, showing how past attachments and childhood bonds gain new meaning over time. Attention is given to inner consciousness, reflection, and the slow adjustment to altered belonging within a close domestic circle. The story emphasizes subtle emot...

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Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland, moors and marshes, even along unlit roads extending into the new suburbs of London, the stories have been chosen for their quality of writing, imaginative range and diversity of character...

In "Anne Severn and the Fieldings," May Sinclair masterfully navigates the intricate labyrinths of human emotions and social dynamics in early 20th-century England. The novel employs a modernist style that intertwines psychological depth with vivid characterizations, allowing readers to explore the nuanced lives of its protagonists. Sinclair's narrative weaves together themes of love, moral ambiguity, and societal expectation, set against the backdrop of a changing world, thus offering a r...

May Sinclair was a popular British author and poet. Sinclair was also an activist and member of the Woman Writers’ Suffrage League. This edition of Life and Death of Harriet Frean includes a table of contents.

“In a few short pages,” writes Francine Prose in her Introduction, “May Sinclair succeeds in rendering the oppressive weight and strength of the chains of family love.” Young Harriett Frean is taught that “behaving beautifully” is paramount, and she becomes a self-sacrificing woman whose choices prove devastating to herself and to those who love her most. An early pioneer ofstream-of-consciousness writing, Sinclair employs the technique brilliantly in this finely crafted psychologic...

"The Flaw in the Crystal" explores the life of its protagonist, Felicia, a young woman who possesses psychic abilities. The plot follows Felicia as she grapples with the complexities of her gift and its impact on her personal relationships and sense of self.As Felicia navigates the social and cultural norms of early 20th-century England, she encounters skepticism, curiosity, and sometimes outright hostility toward her psychic abilities. The narrative delves into Felicia's inner world as sh...

The story follows the life of Harriett Frean, a woman born into the Victorian era with societal expectations and limitations imposed upon her. The novel delves into Harriett's experiences, choices, and the impact of societal norms on her life, exploring themes of conformity, duty, and the constraints of gender roles during that time.May Sinclair was known for her exploration of psychological and philosophical themes in her writings. "The Life and Death of Harriett Frean" is often praised f...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

Cherokee TaleOne of the Cherokee clan mothers contacts an archeologist—who has an excellent academic reputation and capabilities based on her unique DNA—to let her know where to find a domed city more twelve thousand year old that will prove the Cherokee people came from Cappadocia. And prevent repeating the mistakes of the past that destroyed it.We've often been told history gets to be written by the winners. But the thing is we can only actually read what was wri...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these mo