With its sensational tricks, menacing atmosphere, and strong sense of the occult, Uncle Silas is one of the greatest mystery stories ever written. A film version was made by Gainsborough Studios in 19
Set during World War I, this novel?tells of a German attempt to raise the whole of Islam in support of Turkey, thus defeating Russia on the Eastern front and turning the course of the war. Accompanied
A razor-sharp commentary on Edwardian values sparkles with brilliant Saki satire?A biting satire on the conceits of high society, this exquisite novel of mannersdescribes the adventures of the fastidi
An evocative journey into 1930s China deftly weaves together themes of personal relationships and global events?Laura Leroy inhabits the two realms of her Oxford past and Peking present. Into her curr
Beautifully written, the?only novel by art critic and anarchist poet Herbert Read is a strange, powerful, and original work?First published in 1935, Herbert Read's only novel is a sustained piece of p
The archetypal gothic novel with a new foreword by the author of a seminal Bronte study?Emily Bronte's only novel is one of the most treasured classics of 19th-century fiction. Intensely passionate an
The masterpiece of one of the greatest modern Catholic writers?A novel told in the form of a confessional?letter, this is the story of Monsieur Louis, an embittered, aging lawyer who has spread his mi
The basis for Puccini's opera La Boheme and the musical Rent, and a?wonderful evocation of 19th-century Paris?Originally published in 1851, Henri Murger's best-known work novel draws largely on Murger
Michael Arlen wrote of the fast set of Mayfair and Belgravia, those who were to be termed the Lost Generation. His characters are doomed young war heroes still hungering for excitement, newly embolden
Rose Macaulay’s powerfully felt pacifist novel of World War I?records the suffering and passion of Alix Sandomir’s rebellion against the foolishness of her fellow noncombatants. The year is 1915, and
The seventh and final novel of Thomas Love Peacock followed the others after a silence of?30 years, its typical Peacockian format intact: an idyllic, country house setting, a genial host, many opinion
The Conclave charts the first 30 years in the life of a suburban dilettante with aesthetic aspirations, who, in the 1980s, begins a lucrative career. The story roams from the edge of London to a well-
Kent, the "Garden of England,"?provides the rustic setting for these poignant stories from the creator of The Darling Buds of May. Graham Greene liked to compare H. E. Bates with Chekhov, greatest of
Sensation followed the sudden death of G. K. Chesterton’s eccentric sleuth; as well it might, when he sat up in his coffin and applied a little quiet detachment to the incident.?But then sensation was
