Eleanor M. Hartley – författare

A seance in a Hampstead drawing room, and by the next chapter the traveler stands on a planet beneath a double sun, where every strange landscape strips away one more illusion in a relentless philosophical quest. David Lindsay sold fewer than six hundred copies in his lifetime and died believing he had failed - yet C. S. Lewis borrowed its machinery for his own space trilogy, and Harold Bloom called it the book he most wished he had written. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates, Redon's among them.

Henry Harland edited The Yellow Book, the decadent quarterly that defined the 1890s - and then wrote, as his bestseller, the sunniest possible antidote to it. An English novelist rents a villa on the Italian lakes to work in peace and discovers that his neighbor is a duchess, his gardener's daughter is not remotely what she seems, and the local cardinal keeps both a fine snuff-box and a shrewd eye for a love plot. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.

Edna Ferber - a newspaper reporter at seventeen, a Pulitzer winner for So Big, and the author whose novels became Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant - gathered here the short stories she most wanted kept. A manicurist, a traveling saleswoman, a Jewish mother in Chicago, a girl who refuses the man everyone has chosen for her: the working women of America were her real subject all along. This edition presents the complete and unabridged collection, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.

Charlotte Bronte's first novel was rejected by publisher after publisher and appeared only after her death - yet it holds a plain, cold clarity she never allowed herself again. An orphaned young Englishman spurns his uncles' patronage, takes a clerkship in Brussels, and teaches at a girls' school whose formidable directress has quietly resolved to marry him. Drawn from the same Brussels experience that later fed Villette, this is Bronte at her most austere. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 49 full-page color plates.

Oscar Wilde's only novel is a dazzling and dangerous fable of beauty, vanity, and moral ruin. When the impossibly handsome young Dorian Gray idly wishes that his portrait might bear the burden of age and sin in his place, the wish is granted: Dorian stays forever youthful while the painting silently records the disfigurement of his every cruelty. Seduced by the epigrammatic philosophy of Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian sinks into a secret life of pleasure and corruption - as the hidden canvas grows ever more monstrous. Wickedly witty and unmistakably Gothic, this edition presents Wilde's complete and unabridged masterpiece, newly typeset and illustrated with 42 full-page color plates.

Robert Hugh Benson - son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose conversion to Rome in 1903 was a public scandal - brings a priest's clinical calm to the supernatural. On holiday in Rome, a dozen Catholic priests sit up after dinner and tell one another, as professionals, what they have actually encountered: a possession, a house that will not be blessed, a deathbed that went terribly wrong. Told as sober case notes, the effect is deeply unsettling. This edition presents the complete and unabridged collection, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.

B. M. Bower - the pen name of Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, whose readers assumed for years that the creator of the Flying U outfit had to be a man - knew the range from the inside. Her hero is an Eastern author of Western tales who has never once seen the West, and who travels to Montana for material only to be quietly put to work punching cows by men who see straight through him. Warm, funny, and true to the life, this edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates of the era, Charles Russell among them.

The novella that made Henry James famous and offended half of Boston. Daisy Miller, a fresh and pretty American abroad, strolls out unchaperoned with a handsome Italian and cannot understand why the expatriate ladies of Rome close their doors to her. James poses a single, unanswerable question - is she innocent or merely careless, and does the distinction matter to a society that has already judged her? This edition presents the complete and unabridged novella, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.

Julian Hawthorne - son of Nathaniel, raised among Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville - turns the American desert into the stage for a glittering treasure romance. West of the Rockies, three men argue over the vanished sea that once filled the basin, while somewhere in the sand lie a lost mine called the Golden Fleece, a relic said to be Montezuma's own, and a woman who knows far more than she will tell. This edition presents Hawthorne's complete and unabridged romance, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.