Henry Carter Hull

He sank upon the old yellow sofa, the sofa of his lifetime and of so many years before, and buried his head on the shabby, tattered arm. A succession of sobs broke from his lips -- sobs in which the accumulated emotion of months and the strange, acute conflict of feelings that had possessed him for the three weeks just past found relief and a kind of solution. Lady Aurora sat down beside him, and laid her finger-tips gently on his hand. So, for a...

A reprint of the 1948 novel recounting the story of Cassandra Mortmain, a young woman living on the edge of poverty in a crumbling castle with her somewhat eccentric family, whose prospects begin to improve when new neighbors arrive from America.

Tells the story of young drawing master Walter Hartright and the events that unfold after he encounters a mysterious apparition at one o'clock in the morning on a deserted London road.

While Edison Stokes is searching for the man who stole an ancient book from a local museum, he meets Emma Grayson, a young woman who refuses to follow her employer's orders and has an uncanny ability to find danger wherever she goes.

A young woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.

Robert Grove, a fellow at New College, Oxford in the turbulent 1660s, is found dead in mysterious circumstances, prompting the speculations of four witnesses who each offer a different version of events surrounding the murder.

A collection of sixty-two stories by twentieth-century author D.H. Lawrence, including "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and "The Woman Who Rode Away." Also features a brief biography and a chronology of significant events in the writer's life.

Describes life in London in the year 1700, looking at the everyday cultural aspects of the lives of the rich and the poor, including subjects such as marriage, childbirth, fashion, amusements, religion, crime, and several other topics.