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Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolific author and he is credited for...

Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolific author and he is credited for...

The Dead Secret was Collins's first full-length puzzle-romance. Moments from death, Mrs Treverton tells a secret, never to be...

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of...

Cousin Phillis is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, who moves to the country and...

A Dark Night's Work turns on concealed crime and a false accusation of murder. The secret goes unknown for about 15 years until...

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of...

Dickens' genius for creating eccentric yet entirely captivating characters found its fullest expression in his third novel,...

Set against the backdrop of the Salem witch hunts, Elizabeth Gaskell's somber novella reveals much about the complicity of...

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of...

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of...

Enjoying the comforts of his well-kept home, country doctor William Harrison is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a...

Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her...

Sylvia's Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whaling-port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire where the sea...

A fallen woman would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a...

John Sheppard was a notorious English robber and thief of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed...

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did...

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and...

Following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe composed a further tale of high adventure at sea. The result was this...

On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an...

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and...

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and...

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and...

This novel, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Presenting a host of...

A vivid satire on a dissolute society, Roxana is a devastating evocation of the ways in which vanity and ambition can corrupt the...

The Great Plague swept through London in 1665, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year Defoe vividly...

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe,...

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe,...

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His novels are often as concerned with social...

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White...