Illustrated with black & white drawings by Dodie Masterman. Originally published in 1901, her given name was Stella Miles Franklin. A novel of a young girl striving to outgrow her very...
The Virginian (otherwise titled The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains) is a 1902 novel set in the Wild West by the American author Owen Wister. It describes the life of a cowboy on a...
This 2 volume anthology celebrates 4 centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. Together the volumes offer a rich & many-coloured tapestry of the depth,...
The case of Kilvert is strange. Eminent critics have hailed his diary as a classic, ranking with Pepys, comparable with but more vivid and more human than Doroth Wordsworth. Yet many people...