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The Beast Within

by Emile Zola

A superb new translation of one of the most intense and explicit works of the nineteenth-century French master Émile Zola considered The Beast Within-also known as La Bête Humaine-to be his -most finely worked-...


Middlemarch

by George Eliot

On April 10, 1994, PBS stations nationwide will air the first episode of a lavish six-part Masterpiece Theatre production of Eliot's brilliant work, Middlemarch, hosted by Russell Baker and produced by Louis...


Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Introduction by Peter Conrad

From the Hardcover edition.


Persuasion: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Jane Austen

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Of all Jane Austen’s great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance.

Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish, spendthrift...


Pride and Prejudice (200th Anniversary Edition)

by Jane Austen

Spirited Elizabeth Bennet matches wits and wiles of the heart with the arrogant Mr. Darcy in this entertaining portrait of matrimonial rites and rivalries in Regency England.


The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

 

Introduction by Pamela Knights

 

In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays...


The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton

Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America’s nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine,...


Summer

by Edith Wharton

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton’s Summer created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman’s sexual awakening....


The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

by Robert Tressall

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...


The Mabinogion

by Gwyn Jones

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high...


The Heart of Happy Hollow

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

A historic collection of perceptive tales from a luminary of nineteenth-century literature

First published in 1904, The Heart of Happy Hollow features sixteen short stories that provide rare glimpses into the...


Tono-Bungay

by H.G. Wells & Andrea Barrett

The story of an apprentice chemist whose uncle’s worthless medicine becomes a spectacular marketing success, Tono-Bungay earned H. G. Wells immediate acclaim when it appeared in 1909. It remains a sparkling...


Fathers and Sons

by Constance Garnett, Ann Pasternak Slater & Elizabeth Cheresh Allen

When Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy about where Turgenev stood in relation to his account of generational misunderstanding. Was he criticizing...


Agnes Grey

by Anne Bronte & Barbara A. Suess

Concerned for her family’s financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century....


The Bostonians

by Henry James & A.S. Byatt

This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her....


When the Sleeper Wakes

by H.G. Wells & Orson Scott Card

Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring, is stricken with insomnia. Finally resorting to medication, he instantly falls into a deep...


The Haunted House

by Charles Dickens & Wesley Stace

On Christmas Eve, a party of friends descends on a purportedly haunted country retreat, charged with the task of discovering evidence of the supernatural. Sequestered in their rooms for the holiday, the friends...


Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River

by Joseph Conrad & Nadine Gordimer

Almayer’s Folly, Joseph Conrad’s first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the...


The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill

by Royall Tyler & Caleb Crain

A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive is an entertaining romp...


Dombey and Son

by Charles Dickens & Jonathan Lethem

Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly...