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British Fiction:  

Jane Austen: Persuasion. Northanger Abbey.
The two posthumously published Jane Austen novels in one volume.

In 1816, Austen succeeded in recovering the unpublished manuscript of "Northanger Abbey" from her publisher. She then worked upon it further; yet, she was still doubtful whether she should publish it or not, and, at last, it was posthumously published in two volumes in 1818, at the same time as "Persuasion"...

William Somerset Maugham:
The Trembling of a Leaf.

Little Stories from the South Sea Islands

In 1916, William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) travelled to the Pacific. This was the first of those journeys through the late-Imperial world of the 1920s and 1930s which were to establish Maugham forever in the popular imagination as the chronicler of the last days of colonialism in India, Southeast Asia, China and the Pacific,

Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room. A novel
"Jacob's Room" is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1922. It centres, in a very ambivalent way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders in pre-war England. The novel is seen as an important modernist text.

Oscar Wilde & anonymous authros: Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal. (Gay Erotic Classic. Adult Literature)

Teleny is a homoerotic novel and an important antithesis to the prudish idealism of the Victorian Era. With 8 linocuts by New York artist Uday Dhar.

Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Artist.
Upon the Importan
ce of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything.

"Criticism is itself an art." This is one of the singular arguments in what must be one of Oscar Wilde's most compelling critical dialogues ever published. Two Literary Dialogs.

Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The Secret Adversary.
Two Novels.

Agatha Christie's first two novels, introducing Hercule Poirot and Tommy and Tuppence.

Jerome K. Jerome: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927) is an English author, known for his humorous essays.

Herbert George (H.G.) Wells: Tales of Space and Time.

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer best remembered today for his science fiction works. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction".

Rudyard Kipling: Ghost Stories.

The tales are quite as grisly as any one will demand, although R. Kipling makes fun of all of them, and insinuates that they can be traced back to some variety of Indian fever or to the high spirits which are absorbed from bottles with popular labels. (N.Y. Herald)

Howard Sturgis: All That Was Possible (Novel)

Howard Overing Sturgis' "All That Was Possible" is a successful psychologic study about a certain "Mrs." Sibyl Crofts, who discreetly retires to a Welsh countryside after her London "past." There, she meets Robert Henshaw, a rigidly
conventional squireen ...

Howard Sturgis: Belchamber (Novel)

In his remarkably interesting novel, Howard Overing Sturgis, with a skilful touch, describes life in the rich and self-indulgent aristocratic society. It traces the career of a young man, Sainty, brought up in the midst of great luxury. ...

Howard Sturgis: Tim (Novel - early gay classic)

"Tim" (1891; sometimes subtitled "A Story of a School Life") is a delicate portrayal of a sensitive boy's devoted affection for an older boy - a very touching story of a tender and self-forgetful character. ...

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