William Lyon Phelps 
The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century 

Like all of Hardy’s work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of …

The Rover Boys in Business, also countable in The Rover Boys Series for Young Americans, was a well-known children’s book series authored by Edward Stratemeyer using the pen name Arthur M. Winfield. …

To mark the publication of Stop What You”re Doing and Read This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook ”bundles”, to tempt rea …

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner”s central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas – a man doomed, deracinated and alone – wanders the Deep South in search of an …

Charles Dickens died half way through writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood , and ever since speculation has been rife as to how the tale might have unfolded. For this intriguing two-part adaptation for …

”Perhaps his greatest work. The great novel of London: dark, wise, unsentimental” William Boyd WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK HORNBY John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his i …

”The novel has everything: absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics” The Times When Nicholas”s father dies he, his mother and sister are left penniless. To ea …

”Brisk, bawdy and reckless” Evening Standard ”A freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh” Observer The Alm …

”The Virgin and the Gipsy”, written as a brief fiction titled by English novelist D.H. Lawrence, was posthumously released in 1930. Due to the spelling of "Gipsy" in the original and …

If you love Bridgerton, you”ll love Georgette Heyer! ”The greatest writer who ever lived” ANTONIA FRASER ”My generation”s Julia Quinn” ADJOA ANDOH ”One of the wittiest, most insightful and rew …