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The life of Charlotte Bronte - Elizabeth Gaskell
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of t... -
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins; John Sutherland
SUMMARY: The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest "Sensation Novel." Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex ... -
The Siege of Krishnapur - J. G. Farrell
In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly... -
The Secret Warriors - W.E.B. Griffin
From Kirkus ReviewsSecond volume in the Men at War saga, begun with The Last Heroes (1997), a paperback originally published (in 1985) under the pseudonym Alex Baldwin. Griffin has... -
The Reservoir - John Milliken Thompson
On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but t... -
The Hills of Singapore - Dawn Farnham
In Vol. 3 of "The Straits Quartet", the sexy Regency-style romance series set in the exotic East, young, beautiful and wealthy widow Charlotte Macleod leaves Batavia in the 1850s a... -
The Dark Half - Stephen King; Linesch
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to wr... -
The American Gardener - William Cobbett
Back in print after 150 yearsOut of print since 1856, The American Gardener is perhaps the first classic work of American gardening literature. In it, William Cobbett, Victori... -
She - H. Rider Haggard
SUMMARY: Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (1856-1925) was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private '... -
Queen of Kings - Maria Dahvana Headley
Amazon.com ReviewTéa Obreht Interviews Maria Dahvana HeadleyTéa Obreht was born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and has lived in the United States sinc...