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Mary: A Fiction
Mary Wollstonecraft
A young woman possessing acute intellect and an active interior life struggles against a loveless forced marriage and the sudden loss of everyone she holds dear. <Image alt="Portrait of author Mary Wollstonecraft" caption="Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)" src="imageagenttag13910832884564421198"/
New Poems, and Variant Readings
Robert Louis Stevenson
A quiet, deeply personal collection of verse uncovers the restless heart and private devotion behind a legendary storyteller’s public career.
The Works of John Marston. Volume 3
John Marston
Two men plot a wild escape to Virginia that collapses in the stormy Thames, leaving a trail of bankrupt foolishness, vengeful spouses, and biting moral satire in early modern London.
The Caxtons: A Family Picture
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
A quiet domestic story of family bonds, scholarly eccentricities, and young ambition, set against the changing landscape of nineteenth-century Britain and Australia.
The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
A wry, perceptive tour through human vanity and everyday foolishness, where trivial domestic panics and lofty philosophical pretensions are weighed on the exact same scale.
Behind a Mask
Louisa May Alcott
A clever governess transforms a family's arrogant indifference into desperate infatuation through ruthless theatricality and calculated deception.
Poor Miss Finch
Wilkie Collins
A young blind woman falls in love with a man whose physical transformation threatens their future, forcing a choice between sight, truth, and devotion.
Sir Thomas More
Unknown
An urban riot, a sudden elevation to power, and a quiet, unyielding conscience drive this Tudor play toward its inevitable scaffold.
Tales and Novels
Maria Edgeworth
An impulsive young man in eighteenth-century Ireland navigates shifting social fortunes, volatile guardians, and his own fiery temper as he seeks to govern his character and secure a place in the world.
The Modern Traveller
Hilaire Belloc
An absurd, colonial-era expedition spirals into complete disaster, exposed through the shameless, self-serving narrative of its sole survivor.
Ernest Maltravers
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
A gifted young philosopher turns his back on worldly ambition to mold an unsophisticated girl, only to trigger a chain of romantic disillusionments, tragic misunderstandings, and political rivalry across Europe.
The Awkward Age
Henry James
An older gentleman re-enters London society only to find that the girl he wishes to save has already been exposed to its compromised world.
The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield
A quiet ache runs through these pages, where small daily rituals mask deep emotional distances and sudden, quiet reckonings.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady
Samuel Richardson
Driven away from her family by an arranged marriage and trapped by a scheming libertine, a dutiful young woman fights to preserve her independence and virtue against relentless deception.