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A fortune-teller’s tent at a seaside charity fête. A sealed envelope. A prophecy that comes true within hours. And a scarlet skull, crowned with silver, that no one can explain. In the Cornish town of St. Ewalds, the fête given by the proud but penniless baronet Sir Hannibal Trevick promises...

Three pairs of stockings, one pink sweetmeat, and a question that gives this Christmas collection its name: who ate it? Settle in for the Victorian Christmas season with six illustrated tales, first published in Boston in 1884 for children and families to share by the fire. In the title story by...

Three friends, one ramshackle London lodging house, and a lively argument about women that sets everything in motion. Bartlett Bayre, Ted Southerley and Jan Repton are young bachelors sharing cramped rooms in Edwardian London while chasing careers as a writer, a journalist and a painter. The...

Can a busy man of forty, with a family to look after, really make a life among hills, fields and fruit trees? In The Hills of Hingham (1916), naturalist and essayist Dallas Lore Sharp answers with warmth, wit and a generous dose of self-mockery, drawing on fourteen years of country living near...

Three outlaws. One lawless border. A revolution that has turned northern Mexico upside down. In the blazing deserts of Sonora, the rustlers Bull Perrin, Jake Evers and Sliver Smith have turned an abandoned mine into a fortress and other men’s horses into a living. Bull’s brute strength...

Georgetown, British Guiana, 1890. A young man steeped in legends of the lost city of El Dorado, a skeptical friend, and a mysterious stranger named Monella who claims to know the way: it takes no more than that to set an expedition in motion. Beyond the last settlements lie impenetrable jungle...

When a courtroom triumph ends in tragedy, eight-year-old Dicky Bowen is left an orphan with one guardian in the world: Uncle Jenico, a limping, lovable inventor whose patents—from a twenty-cow milking machine to an "infallible" lifebelt that floats upside down—have never made him a fortune...

What does a man see when he dies, and what does he do with that knowledge once he returns? Pronounced dead by the physicians at his bedside, the narrator of this extraordinary Victorian diary lay lifeless for two days before, to everyone's astonishment, he came back to life. What he wrote down...

When two young British officers are captured behind American lines, quick-thinking young soldier Bob Chester and his comrade Lieutenant Marcel seize a bold opportunity: slipping into the captives' scarlet uniforms and walking straight into the heart of the enemy camp. What starts as a daring...

On the windswept cattle ranges of Montana, rancher Jeffrey Masters is a man of iron discipline — cool-headed, ambitious, and utterly unlike the reckless brother he hasn't seen in years. When a letter arrives bearing the name of his estranged twin, Ronald, old wounds tear open just as Jeff and...

In the years after the American Revolution, a caravan of pioneer families crosses the mountains into the unbroken wilderness the Native peoples call Kain-tuck-ee. Among them is fifteen-year-old Henry Ware, whose fascination with the forest sets him apart from the rest of the settlers. Guided by...

From Albert Payson Terhune — famed novelist, journalist, and breeder of collies at his real-life Sunnybank Kennels — comes this treasured collection of eight dog stories. The title tale follows Buff, an unusual crossbreed collie born on Shawemere Farm, as he grows from an unpromising puppy...

A masterpiece of psychological realism, secret romance, and social ambition set against the sparkling backdrop of Monte Carlo. In A Tragic Idyl (Une idylle tragique), acclaimed French author and Académie française member Paul Bourget weaves a compelling tale of passion, betrayal, and...

In the Catskills gathers eight of John Burroughs's finest nature essays, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1910 with photographic illustrations by Clifton Johnson. Burroughs — nicknamed "John o' Birds" for his devotion to birdlife and often credited with creating the modern nature essay...

Books and Culture (1896) is a collection of reflective essays by American critic and editor Hamilton Wright Mabie, exploring why great literature endures and how reading shapes the inner life of the reader. Rather than treating books as sources of information, Mabie presents them as companions...

Set against the background of the Mexican-American War, Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef is a classic maritime adventure of secrecy, treason, and survival in perilous waters. When Captain Stephen Spike sets sail aboard the brigantine Molly Swash, he carries a illicit cargo, a tangled Web of...

In the fictional village of Fairbridge, New Jersey, everyone knows everyone — and judges them just as thoroughly. The Butterfly House (1912) is a razor-sharp social comedy from Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, one of the most celebrated American Realist writers of the late nineteenth and early...

When Henry Smix lets a runaway automobile loose on the streets of Bingville, it is only the first in a long series of collisions between the old ways and the new. As wages climb and money floods into this sleepy New England village, its citizens discover a troubling truth: prosperity alone...