Harriet E. Langley – författare

Taking his title from the great symbol of German Romanticism, Henry van Dyke - Princeton professor, clergyman, and wartime minister to the Netherlands - gathers tales of the one thing a life is spent seeking: a knight who follows a legend, a Persian magus who follows a star, a man who at last finds the blue flower and fails to know it. American Romanticism at its most graceful, this edition presents the complete and unabridged collection, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.

Anthony Trollope dismissed The Belton Estate as the worst thing he ever wrote - which is nonsense. It is the novel in which he looks most steadily at what a woman without money is actually choosing between. Clara Amedroz, left with no fortune, stands between two men: the cousin who will inherit the estate she grew up in, and an eligible gentleman with a career and cold prospects of affection. Honest and unsentimental, this edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates.

A side of Arthur Conan Doyle almost no one remembers: a warm domestic comedy written in 1892, between the Sherlock Holmes stories. In a genteel Norwood suburb of two elderly bachelors and a houseful of marriageable young women, everything is settled and proper - until a widow moves in next door who bicycles, boxes, and holds opinions, and the neighborhood is never the same. Affectionate and braver than it looks, this edition presents Doyle's complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.

Howard Overing Sturgis kept an open house at Windsor where Henry James and Edith Wharton were regular guests, and did his needlework while the talk flowed around him. His quiet first novel follows a delicate boy at an English public school whose attachment to an older pupil becomes the whole of his emotional life - a book that says, without ever quite saying, what could not then be spoken aloud. Delicate and deeply affecting, this edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the seminal work of Gothic horror and the birth of science fiction. Consumed by ambition, the brilliant young scientist Victor Frankenstein uncovers the secret of animating lifeless matter - and brings into being a creature of superhuman strength and unbearable loneliness. Spurned and abandoned by its maker, the creature turns from longing to vengeance, and pursuer and pursued are drawn toward a devastating reckoning that carries them across Europe and into the frozen wastes of the Arctic. A haunting meditation on ambition, responsibility, and the meaning of humanity, this edition presents Shelley's complete and unabridged masterpiece, newly typeset and illustrated with 41 full-page color plates.