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The book that launched one of the best-loved comic families in English fiction. Berry Pleydell and his quick-witted cousins motor about the English countryside tumbling into scrapes that always melt into banter and flirtation. Dornford Yates - in life the barrister Cecil Mercer, junior counsel at the Oscar Wilde trial and a cousin of Saki - spun the Berry books into a twenty-year institution between the wars. This edition presents the complete and unabridged first volume, newly typeset and illustrated with 40 full-page color plates.

Born in a hollow log to a wolf father and a dog mother, Baree grows up torn between two natures - the call of the pack on one side, a lonely trapper's daughter on the other, and all around him a wilderness that cares nothing for his choice. James Oliver Curwood, who came to love the wild creatures he had once hunted, tells Baree's story with unmatched feeling for the northern forest. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 35 full-page color plates.

Henry James's The Turn of the Screw is the most argued-over ghost story in the language. A young governess, alone with two strange and beautiful children in a remote country house, becomes convinced that two dead servants are still present - and mean to possess her charges. James leaves no way to decide whether the horror is real or the product of her own mind, and that unresolved dread is the whole terrible power of the book. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novella, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.

Nathaniel Hawthorne spent seven disillusioning months at the Brook Farm commune shoveling manure and losing his investment, and then insisted this novel was not about it - convincing no one. A minor poet joins a farm of high-minded reformers and finds himself forever watching rather than living: a magnetic agitator, a woman who worships him, and a girl with a secret no one will name. The narrator's own coldness is the true subject. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 43 full-page color plates.

The adventure that founded a genre. The volcanic Professor Challenger announces to a jeering Royal Society that living dinosaurs survive on a remote plateau in South America - and dares the world to prove him wrong. A skeptical reporter, a big-game sportsman, and a rival scientist set off with him into the unknown. Written the year after Conan Doyle tired of Sherlock Holmes, it gave us the first lost-world expedition, ancestor of every jungle-plateau story since. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 41 full-page color plates.

From the creator of Tarzan comes an eerie vision of a future scarred by endless war. Two centuries after the Great War of 1914 severed the hemispheres, an officer of the Pan-American navy drifts across the forbidden thirtieth meridian and discovers what became of a Europe left to fight on for a hundred years. Written in 1916, its imagined ruin is startlingly prescient. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates, John Martin's catastrophes among them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables is a darkly beautiful romance of guilt inherited and slowly repaid. Two centuries ago the Pyncheon family seized their land by sending an innocent man to the gallows for witchcraft - and his dying curse has shadowed the house ever since. Today the gabled mansion shelters the proud, impoverished Hepzibah, her gentle brother broken by a wrongful imprisonment, and a bright young cousin whose presence may at last lift the weight of the past. A masterpiece of American Gothic by the author of The Scarlet Letter, this edition presents Hawthorne's complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates.

Written in the damp Concord parsonage where Emerson had lived before him, Mosses from an Old Manse gathers more than twenty of Nathaniel Hawthorne's finest tales and allegories: a scientist who cannot bear the small birthmark on his wife's cheek, a man who steps out of his life for twenty years to watch it from across the street, a garden whose beauty is deadly. Descended from a judge of the Salem witch trials, Hawthorne made these dark parables his laboratory. This edition presents the complete and unabridged collection, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates.

The most searching and controversial of Jane Austen's novels. Sent at ten to live among rich relations who never let her forget the favor, Fanny Price grows into the one person at Mansfield Park with a working conscience - a heroine Austen deliberately gave neither wit nor charm, daring the reader to love her anyway. Its amateur theatricals, its famous ha-ha, and the shadow of a slave estate in Antigua have kept readers arguing for a century. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates.

A lighter, quicker Henry James, written in 1879 between the early tales and the great novels. At the spa town of Baden-Baden, one young man asks his friend to inspect the woman he is courting and report whether she will do as a wife - and the report he receives changes the course of both their lives. It is James's most playful treatment of the subject he never abandoned: what happens when a man hands his own judgment to someone else. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 41 full-page color plates.