Penelope is spending the long hot summer editing a romantic novel in a cottage set in the English countryside. The cottage is also occupied by Pauline's daughter, Teresa, and by Teresa's husband, Maurice, who is writing his own book. Teresa's overly possessive love for Maurice fills Pauline with dread: the same jealous passion for Teresa's father prematurely eroded her own youth. When Maurice's editor and his girlfriend take to spending weekends at...

Presents a thriller set against the hellish backdrop of World War I Britain, as a beautiful Irish spy plies her trade in a London nightclub and, in a secret remote laboratory, scientists work to develop a weapon that could end the war. In the third novel of the No Graves As Yet series, the English Reavley siblings all deal with the changes of WWI and do their part to fight the Germans. When the siblings make their way home to the village of Cambridgeshire,...

The Longest Journey (1907) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. Despite its critical success, the novel was a commercial failure for Forster, but has since grown in reputation and readership to help cement his reception as one of twentieth century England's most talented writers. Rickie Elliot enters Cambridge as a young man, exploring his interests in poetry and art and joining a circle of intellectuals centered around, a philosopher named...

From the Publisher: When David Copperfield's widowed mother remarries, David suffers from his stepfather's abuse. At age 8, David is sent away to a harsh school where the principal routinely beats the students. David's circumstances become even worse when he is removed from school and, at age 10, forced to labor from morning to night in a London warehouse. David then decides to take desperate action. He will run away to his great-aunt, who lives in...

Neither international espionage, nor kidnapping, nor murder can stop the efforts of two sleuths determined to find a mysterious missing lady

Presents a novel about an English country house and its influence on the lives of the wealthy Wilcoxes, the cultural Schlegel sisters, and bank clerk Leonard Bast and includes critical analysis and contextual materials.

Retells in simple language the events leading up to and following young Jane's arrival at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysterious Mr. Rochester.

August, 1944: US Army detective Billy Boyle is assigned to track down a French traitor, code-named Atlantik, who is delivering classified Allied plans to German leaders in occupied Paris. The Resistance is also hot on his trail and out for blood, after Atlantik’s previous betrayals led to the death of many of their members. But the plans Atlantik carries were leaked on purpose, a ruse devised to obscure the Allied army’s real intentions to bypass...

The story of the lives and emotional conflicts of two sisters. Ursula falls in love with Birkin, and Gudrun has a tragic affair with Gerald, the son of the local colliery owner.

Perhaps the most beloved of John Fowles's internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel. "Filled with enchanting mysteries and magically erotic possibilities".