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Horatia Winwood is the youngest and the least attractive of the three Winwood sisters. She also has a stammer. But when the enigmatic and eminently eligible Earl of Rule offers for …

When the liberal government falls and neither party is able to form a cabinet, Plantaganet Palliser is called upon to lead a coalition government. He is reluctant at first, and …

The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris' masterly telling of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering …

Subtitled 'A Story of To-day', A Laodicean occupies a unique place in the Thomas Hardy canon. Departing from pre-industrial Wessex, Hardy brings his themes of social constraint, …

Based on events that took place between 960 and 1020 AD, Nj l's Saga is a mesmerising drama about a multigenerational cycle of violence and retribution, and the feuds and passions …

The tales of the Norse gods--of the giants, demons, trolls, and dwarves--still have the power to fascinate more than a thousand years after they were first told. Tales from the …

For a period of seven years, Wilfred Thesiger canoed through the marshes at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, living among the native Madan tribes and their …

Venice stands on the frontiers of the east and west, halfway between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her "the marketplace of the Morning and the Evening lands." …

Plagued with doubt and uncertainty in sensory knowledge, Descartes is struck with the idea that everything he knows is false. He considers the possibility that he has been deceived …

This volume contains the first ten stories from James Joyce's masterful collection Dubliners, read in their original, unabridged form by Jim Norton who has established a special …