The Black Cat is a psychological drama centered around themes of guilt, obsession, and the supernatural. The story opens with a mysterious and chilling atmosphere, as the main character, Edward Ferris, a seemingly respectable man, is drawn into a spiraling descent following a traumatic event. The action unfolds in Ferris's home, where his life begins to unravel after an encounter with a black cat that he believes to be the manifestation of his repressed guilt.As the plot progresses, Ferris...

The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.In this volume we bring together those professionals whose services we require when our health falters. Their skills and manner guide us through the sometimes difficult journey back to restored vigour. In th...

Don't waste money on individual texts by a classic author. Get (nearly) all in 1, 2 or (at most) 3 FREE-FOREVER volumes. Save space in your ebook shelves.The works of Jane Austen as originally published but converted for easy reading by cross-platform ebook / ePUB standards. Organized alphabetically and by type of text for quicker navigation; a master table of contents leads you to specific tables of contents for each included work. This volume includes:

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighborhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social posi...

The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire gathers Anthony Trollope's six interlinked novels—beginning with The Warden and culminating in The Last Chronicle of Barset—into one of Victorian fiction's most capacious social panoramas. Set in the imagined cathedral county of Barsetshire, the sequence anatomizes clerical ambition, ecclesiastical reform, courtship, inheritance, and provincial politics with humane irony and lucid realism. Trollope's style is conversational yet architecturally control...

'Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.' Sunday Telegraph**.** A beautifully repackaged edition of one of the best of the best.When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on Diplomatic Business he parks his only daughter Sophy with his sister's family, the Ombersleys, in Berkeley Square.Upon her arrival, Sophy is bemused to see to see her cousins are in a sad tangle. The heartless and tyrannica...

Now a major film: HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else it must be in my own way.When the Dashwood family are forced into more modest circumstances, sisters Marianne and Elinor also find themselves entangled in matters of the heart. Passionate and spirited, young Marianne falls for the charming but unreliable Mr Willoughby. Elinor, by contrast ratio...

THE COLLECTED NOVELS OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE Vol. II includes 18 novels by Victorian writer Anthony Trollope (1815-1882).  This volume includes the complete 'Palliser' series, and twelve other Trollope novels, written between 1865 and 1878.  Set in Victorian England, the novels follow the lives of the landed gentry, country folk, the nobility, and the clergy during the mid-nineteenth century, and have become classics of Victorian literature.  This book is DRM free and ...