The author of Down By the River and House of Splendid Isolation narrates the story of two siblings, brother and sister, and the dangerous newcomer would try to steal everything they have. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Willis Young, the son of a legendary bank robber, has recently returned from World War I feeling lost and profoundly depressed, but a chance to drill for oil could either make his day, or break him for good. Reprint.

Christy, a nineteenth-century Scottish orphan, has been accepted by the Clanna people, crofters living in the harsh Hebrides, but doubts that she will ever feel truly one of them, until foreigners threaten the clan's homeland and only Christy can stop them

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Lockheart Flawse exposes the suburban foibles of his tennants in Sandicott Close. Terrified out of their wits, one by one they beat a hasty retreat and Lockheart's dream of escaping hated East Pursley, and his 12 rent-controlled houses comes a step closer.

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Hwang Sun-won, perhaps the most beloved and respected Korean writer of the 20th century, based this extraordinary novel on his own experiences in his North Korean home village between the end of World War II and the eve of the Korean War when Korea had been divided into North and South by its two "liberators" - the United States and the Soviet Union. In this story the Soviet-backed communist party, using the promise of land reform, sets people at each other's throat. Portrayed here is an entire community caught in the political and social firestorm that brings out the selfishness, cruelty and ignorance of simple people, but also shows their loyalty and nobility. Compelling here, too, is a heroine who represents the "eternally feminine" for all Korean men, and the setting, the harsh political, psychic and physical landscape of rural postwar North Korea rarely glimpsed by the outside world. Hwang Sun-won is an artist of consummate delicacy and subtlety, and his writing is marked by keen psychological insight and steely asceticism. While three collections of his short stories have appeared in Hong Kong and the West, "The Descendants of Cain" is the first English translation of a Hwang Sun-won novel.

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As Queen Victoria ascends the British throne, twins are born at Wrox Hall, presided over by the matriarchal Maria Wrox-Hampden, beginning a series of momentous changes involving gypsies, a ghost, and a ruined woman. 20,000 first printing.