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Heartbreaking American masterpiece of the ",Roaring Twenties", based on Fitzgerald's own experience.It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a...
Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec,...
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) wrote carefully structured fiction that probed the psychological and social elements guiding the behavior of her characters. Her portrayals of upper-class New...
From the awe-inspiring story of the Creation to the defeats and triumphs of the Children of Israel and the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus,...
'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.' Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the...
'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I...
The celebrated master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe brought his nightmare imaginings to life in classic stories told in a signature style. This volume...
In December 1827, a French newspaper ran a story about a young man charged with the attempted murder of a married woman. The article fired...
In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between...
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be...
'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are...
'Everything was dead, everything unreal, the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence,...
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater...
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the...
They are the fearful images that have stalked humanity's nightmares for centuries, supernatural creatures that feast on flesh and haunt the soul, macabre and uncanny...