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Edith Wharton called it 'Hot Ethan' - the sun-struck counterpart to Ethan Frome - and wrote it amid the First World War without a flinch. Charity Royall, lifted as a child out of a squalid mountain settlement by the guardian who now watches her too closely, spends one summer with a young architect down from the city and grasps, long before he does, exactly how it must end. This edition presents Wharton's complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 31 full-page color plates, Monet's poppy fields among them.

R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone is one of the best-loved historical romances in English, the book that put Exmoor on the map. In the wild West Country of the 1680s, the outlawed Doone clan rides down from its hidden valley to rob and kill at will. John Ridd, a yeoman farmer whose father the Doones murdered, grows up to love Lorna - the girl the outlaws are raising as their own - in a slow, immovable voice that has charmed readers for a century and a half. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates.

Natalie Sumner Lincoln, born into a Washington family, set her mysteries in the world she knew from the inside - among senators, embassy parties, and the clerks who quietly know everything. Here a man is found dying in a capital law office, a red seal clutched in his hand and all the wrong people furnished with alibis. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 32 full-page color plates.

E. R. Punshon labored for years in Canada and America before settling to write some seventy detective novels - and earned the real admiration of Dorothy L. Sayers. A young man takes a post at a lonely house called Bittermeads under a false name, hunting a man who has vanished, and finds a suspicious packing case, a girl who will not explain herself, and a household where everyone is watching everyone else. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 32 full-page color plates.