Product Description: These nine novels are "the best of the best"—great writing by some of the most brilliant literary minds of the 18th and 19th centuries.Samuel Johnson's biography of Richard Savage raises the life of a scoundrel to the level of great art; George Eliot profoundly influenced Henry James with her horror story, The Lifted Veil; Le Fanu writes a "sinister but gracious" supernatural Gothic; Nightmare Abbey is Thomas Love Peacock's satire on his friends, the Romantic poets Shelley, Coleridge, and Byron...read more

Product Description: Lindsay Miller is knee-deep in Christmas cards and homemade fudge, but she's never felt more like a Grinch. Why can't Christmas be full of magic, like in her favorite movie, A Christmas Carol. . .?. . .Enter Fred, a sexy and eccentric stranger who arrives at Lindsay's door out of the blue...read more

Product Description: A gripping and hilarious 1960s Mexico City noirOnly a couple of days before the state visit of the President of the United States, Filiberto García ― an impeccably groomed "gun for hire," ex-Mexican revolutionary, and classic anti-hero ― is recruited by the Mexican police to discover how much truth there might be to KGB and FBI reports of a Chinese-Mongolian plot to assassinate the Soviet and American presidents during the unveiling of a statue...read more

Product Description: A bold and brilliant debut from a darkly funny new voice. Oskar is a minimalist composer best known for a piece called Variations on Tram Timetables. He is married to a Californian art dealer named Laura and he lives with two cats, named after Russian composers, in an Eastern European city...read more

Product Description: The year is 1556 in Venice—a wealthy, bustling, multicultural city—where 20-year-old English Protestant Richard Stocker is recovering from the execution of his friend Lady Jane Grey. Soon Richard finds himself caught up in the complexities of La Serenissima and involved with three of the city’s most remarkable women— Faustina Contarini, a nun imprisoned in a convent by her noble family; Yasmeen Ahmed, Muslim clerk and bookkeeper to the great artist Tintoretto; and Veronica Franco, artists’ model, courtesan, and poet...read more

Product Description: This unique volume brings together for the first time these three short fictional works written by British authors in the late 1880s and 1890s. Each writer takes a different perspective on the topic of imperialism. Contextual materials include related works by Darwin, Melville, and other contemporaries; biographical backgrounds; and modern reactions to the novels...read more

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A collection of stories about cats features works by such writers as Cleveland Amory, Carole Nelson Douglas, James Herriot, Ernest Hemingway, Saki, Ruth Rendell, and Ursula K. LeGuin (view table of contents)

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The problems of human love and isolation and man's search for truth and dignity are portrayed in an anthology of short fiction

The flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam's stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions.

Includes works from Samuel Johnson's 'Life of Richard Savage' to Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Sharer,' including fiction by Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, and William Hazlitt

Provides character lists, criticism, and background information about each of Dickens' novels, and includes a chronology of his life