Portrays a mid-Victorian family, their confrontations with calamity, and their development of Christian goodness.

George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda, was also her most controversial.

Aided by Heliobas, a monk with special powers who appeared in Marie Corelli's first novel, "The Romance of Two Worlds," a young poet named Theos Alwyn embarks on a strange soul-journey in which he is confronted by the apparition of his twin ...

The novel stands as a major milestone in science-fiction literature, inspiring legions of subsequent writers and an endless array of hostile-alien scenarios.

In 1366, while England is at war with Spain, young Alleyne Edricson becomes a squire to Sir Nigel Loring and travels to France to join a bold band of archers known as the White Company.

Mrs. Katy Scudder had invited Mrs.

A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels.

Mary Marston leaves her father's draper shop in search of a different lifestyle. Her unfavourable discoveries awaken new hope for success in returning to her father's shop.

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.