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Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric archintriguer Miss Aldclyffe On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright In this final volume of "The Forsyte Chronicles" Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes...

The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18yearold undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage girl could still be delivered by the hand of a discreet manservant, and the residents of Piccadilly kept their horses stabled close by so that they could gallop down to Richmond for fresh air...

An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffiths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success The novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's tawdry ambitions and seal his fate : It is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American Dream...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer This is a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne's stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly"...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright "Fraternity" is his early satire of middleclass complacency and artistic aspiration This work stands as one of his best novels outside "The Forsyte Saga"...

Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The American" is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright "Love moves the world." And this statement was reflected on the pages of the novel "Freeland" And no matter where the love storyset in bright living room or in a solitary mansion feelings and experiences of Galsworthy characters are equally deep and sincere...

Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets...

Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet "The Return of the Native" illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of bestloved, essential classics.'Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.'Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuohistory of the Highlands in his classic adventure novel Rob Roy...

William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O Henry, was an American short story writer His stories are known for their surprise endings This is collection of great stories includes "Strictly Business", "The Gold That Glittered", "Babes In The Jungle", "The Day Resurgent", "The Fifth Wheel" and many others...

Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism Roderick Hudson, egotistical, beautiful and an exceptionally gifted sculptor...

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable source of social and economic history...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions...

Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her workingclass lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father...

F S Fitzgerald (18961940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, "The Beautiful and Damned" is the story of Harvardeducated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria, As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice...

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions...

The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Charles Dickens, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog such as thedelusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastroattempts at putting on a public show and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which the town is overrun by illustrioscientists and professors conducting ostensibly pointless research...

William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O Henry, was an American short story writer His stories are known for their surprise endings "Heart of the West" is a collection of humoroand sentimental stories of sheepherders, cowpunchers, trail cooks, prospectors, outlaws, and Texas Rangers offer the modern reader a window into the often mythologized American West...

Dickens' genifor creating eccentric yet entirely captivating characters found its fullest expression in his third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, published in 1839 The narrative follows Nicholas as he escapes from the influence of his villainouncle and the wicked schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, stumbles into a theatrical career, and pursues his fortune through numeroadventures...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright One of his notable works is the novel "Beyond" Together with his heroes the author goes to spheres of unrestrained feelings...

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century.His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature.The Oak Openings; or, The Bee Hunter focuses on the activities of professional honeyhunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed "Ben Buzz"...