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  The Legend of Sir Lancelot du...

  Jessie L. Weston

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  The Lancelot romances compared: the French prose cycle, the German versions, the Welsh material and the English, and what each did with the same three or four episodes. Jessie Weston was the leading English Arthurian scholar of her generation and later wrote "From Ritual to Romance". Her method is source criticism, and her conclusions about the older layers still frame the argument. Sixty plates of painting, from Turner to Rossetti, trace the romantic and chivalric themes that run through the Lancelot cycle.

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  Mr Britling Sees It Through - An...

  H. G. Wells

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  An English writer of comfortable opinions watches the war take his son and his certainties, in a novel published in 1916 while it was still going on. Wells wrote it fast and it sold better than anything else he did; Maxim Gorky called it the finest book written about the war. This edition binds 59 plates of painting with the text, among them works by Algernon Talmage, George Clausen and William Bruce Ellis Ranken, alongside one restored and coloured in-text illustration.

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  The Return of Sherlock Holmes...

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Classic...

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  The Return of Sherlock Holmes is the sixth book in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series and marks the long-awaited return of the world's most famous detective. This collection of thirteen short stories begins with The Adventure of the Empty House, in which Dr. Watson and readers discover that Holmes survived his confrontation with Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Reunited with Watson, Holmes takes on some of his most intriguing cases, including The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Dancing Men, and The Adventure of the Six Napoleons. These tales showcase Holmes' unmatched brilliance in solving mysteries that baffle all others. A masterpiece of detective fiction, The Return of Sherlock Holmes reaffirms Holmes' enduring place as one of literature's greatest characters.

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  The Autobiography of an...

  James Weldon Johnson

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  He could choose how the world would see him—but at what cost to himself?
  Told as a deeply personal confession, this groundbreaking novel follows a gifted young man of mixed race as he navigates America's rigid color line. Faced with discrimination, opportunity, fear, and ambition, he ultimately makes a life-altering decision to "pass" as white—gaining security while sacrificing a vital part of his identity.
  
  Hailed as "one of the most important novels of the Harlem Renaissance," James Weldon Johnson's work is both intimate and political, exposing the psychological toll of racism and the quiet pain behind outward success. Its themes of identity, belonging, and moral compromise remain urgently relevant.
  
  If you seek literature that challenges, enlightens, and reveals the hidden costs of conformity, this essential classic will leave a lasting impression.
  
  Open the book—and confront the question of who we become when survival demands silence.

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  Capitola the Madcap - The Sequel...

  E. D. E. N. Southworth

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  Capitola, an orphan discovered dressed as a boy and selling newspapers in New York, is taken to a Virginia estate as an heiress — and proceeds to fight a duel, outwit a highwayman and rescue everyone who tries to rescue her. Southworth was abandoned by her husband with two small children and no money, took up her pen, and became the most widely read American novelist of her century. Capitola is why. Fifty-nine plates after Eastman Johnson and John Frederick Kensett bring the century's American landscape and shoreline into the story of a girl who refuses to be rescued.

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  Frankenstein

  Mary Shelley

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  Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.Shelley travelled through Europe in 1815, moving along the river Rhine in Germany, and stopping in Gernsheim, 17 kilometres (11 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where, about a century earlier, Johann Konrad Dippel, an alchemist, had engaged in experiments. She then journeyed to the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. Galvanism and occult ideas were topics of conversation for her companions, particularly for her lover and future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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