Portrays a mid-Victorian family, their confrontations with calamity, and their development of Christian goodness.

Correspondence in the nineteenth century from members of the Dodd family to relatives and friends in Ireland, describing the countries and the society encountered.

George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda, was also her most controversial.

Aided by Heliobas, a monk with special powers who appeared in Marie Corelli's first novel, "The Romance of Two Worlds," a young poet named Theos Alwyn embarks on a strange soul-journey in which he is confronted by the apparition of his twin ...

Autograph manuscript draft of W.H. Ainsworth's novel "The South Sea Bubble.

The novel stands as a major milestone in science-fiction literature, inspiring legions of subsequent writers and an endless array of hostile-alien scenarios.

In 1366, while England is at war with Spain, young Alleyne Edricson becomes a squire to Sir Nigel Loring and travels to France to join a bold band of archers known as the White Company.

Mrs. Katy Scudder had invited Mrs.

A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels.

Mary Marston leaves her father's draper shop in search of a different lifestyle. Her unfavourable discoveries awaken new hope for success in returning to her father's shop.