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One of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels, Lord Jim brilliantly combines adventure and analysis. Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In the wake of his disgrace he travels to the exotic region of Patusan, and as the agent at this remote trading post comes to be revered as ‘Tuan Jim.’ Here he finds a measure of serenity and... (more)

Flowering Wilderness

by John Galsworthy

The nine novels which make up The Forsyte Chronicles - one of the most popular and enduring works of 20th century literature - chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. The author has drawn a... (more)

Man's Illegal Life (George Man Mysteries)

Man's Illegal Life (George Man Mysteries)

by Keith Heller

London in the early 18th century is one of the most dangerous cities in the world – a status helped along by the lack of any organized police force. Instead, peacekeeping duties fall on the shoulders of “parish watchmen” like George Man, who spends his nights patrolling the seedy streets. After years of tangling with thieves and whores and cutthroats, he ought to be inured to the worst the city can offer up. ... (more)

A Man with a Maid Vol.'s I, II, III

by Bill Adler, Anonymous

Published for the first time in a single volume: the exploits of Jack, a Victorian libertine, as he pursues the fickle Alice, her maid, and all who might be handy. In his soundproof chamber, replete with instruments of restraint, Jack introduces Alice and other virgins to orgiastic splendor.

Captive, The

by Victoria Holt

Rosetta knew little of life beyond the schoolroom...until she found herself shipwrecked off the African coast. Saved from the raging seas by the ship's handsome, mysterious deckhand, she soon discovered her hero was fellow-Londoner Simon Perrivale, an infamous fugitive accused of murder. Her hopes of rescue were dashed when they were abducted by pirates...and the lovely fair-haired Rosetta was sold to a Turkish... (more)

Murder at the Lodge

by J M Gregson

Description Peach is up for promotion, so this ought to be a time for treading carefully ... Eric Walsh is found strangled in the car park after the North Brunton Masonic Lodge Ladies' Night. Walsh being a ladies' man, suspicion falls on many cuckolded husbands - one of whom, Peach is entertained to discover, is the Master of the Lodge. Equally suspicious is Cartwright the loan shark, Afzaal the waiter who seems... (more)

A Christmas Carol

Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

by Charles Dickens

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the reader fully appreciate the beauty and humor of Dickens’s work. In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future,... (more)

Maid in waiting, by John GalsworthyJohn (1867-1933) Galsworthy

Maid in waiting, by John Galsworthy

by John (1867-1933) Galsworthy

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

New chronology and updated further reading. Edited with an Introduction by A. S. Byatt.

One More River - John Galsworthy - 1st American Edition

One More River - John Galsworthy - 1st American Edition

by John Galsworthy

1st Edition, 1st Printing

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a “study in human weakness and the slow human surrender,” may be called Charles Dickens ’s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career. In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the... (more)

Robinson Crusoe.

by Daniel Defoe

RebeccaDapne Du Maurier

Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

THE RAZORS EDGE

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

A complex plot of love and inheritance is set against the English legal system of the mid-19th century, with all its tortuous avenues and disguised resolutions. Here is the firm, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the young orphan and ward of court Ester Summerson (who tells much of the story). As always, it is the skilled pen of Dickens himself that creates the momentum with his acute eye for both individual characters and... (more)

The Time of the Hunter's Moon (1983)

Legend beckons a romantic schoolgirl to await her future husband in a forest at the time of the hunter's moon. When a handsome stranger appears, Cordelia Grant wonders if she is dreaming. But time will prove this fateful encounter to be all too real and far beyond the reaches of a young girl's imagination.

Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

Flowering Wilderness [The Forsyte Saga No. 8]John galsworthy

Flowering Wilderness [The Forsyte Saga No. 8]

by John galsworthy

To Let: The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

To Let, the final volume of the Forsyte trilogy, chronicles the continuing feuds of the two factions within the troubled Forsyte family. The shadow of the past returns to haunt the lives of a new generation, as Irene's son Jon falls in love with Soames's daughter Fleur with tragic consequences.

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by Joseph Conrad, John Barnes

by John Galsworthy

by Keith Heller

by Bill Adler, Anonymous

by Victoria Holt

by J M Gregson

Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

by Charles Dickens

by John (1867-1933) Galsworthy

by George Eliot

by John Galsworthy

by Charles Dickens

by Daniel Defoe

by Daphne du Maurier

by Charles Dickens

by Jonathan Swift

by Daniel Defoe

by John galsworthy

by John Galsworthy