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  The Scarlet Pimpernel

  Baroness Orczy

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  'When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?'
  
  'When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.'
  
  The first novel in Baroness Orczy's brilliantly entertaining historical fiction series, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a thrilling tale of courage, justice and feigned identities.
  
  It is 1792, and the ruthless Reign of Terror during the French Revolution is in full swing: waves of aristocrats are being ordered to be executed daily, and the fear of bloody massacres is at an all-time high. Enter eccentric English dandy, Sir Percy Blakeney, who is far more than what meets the eye. Under the guise of his alter-ego – the quick-thinking, masterful swordsman, the Scarlet Pimpernel – Blakeney has made it his duty to free the incarcerated from their guillotined fate. His identity is a thoroughly protected secret, but with the French authorities hot on his tail, Blakeney needs to tread more carefully than ever… A thrilling, action-packed narrative, The Scarlet Pimpernel was adapted into one of the most popular stage shows in London in the early twentieth century. Today, it remains a cornerstone of adventure fiction.
  Baroness Orczy (1865 – 1947) was a British novelist and dramatist. Born in Hungary, Orczy moved to London with her family as a teenager, where she studied art. Although she didn't turn her hand to fiction until her thirties, she was a prolific writer, most famous for her series of novels featuring the foppish but courageous Englishman, Sir Percy Blakeney.

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  The Lonesome Trail and Other...

  B. M. Bower

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  A man is very much like a horse. Once thoroughly frightened by something he meets on the road he will invariably shy at the same place afterwards until a wisely firm master leads him perforce to the ...

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  A Broken Trust - From their pens...

  Elizabeth Corbett

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  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett was born on the 16th August 1846 at Standishgate, near Wigan. 
  After a good education she worked as a journalist for the Newcastle Daily Chronicle and went on to become a widespread and popular writer of adventure and society novels. 
  As a feminist writer it is a little bizarre that she published as Mrs George Corbett.  Her most ardent feminist work was ‘New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future,’ though other of her works were also similarly themed and dealt with one of the great issues of the day in Victorian society. 
  She married George Corbett in Sheffield in 1868.  They went on to have 4 children, of which only 3 survived. 
  As a writer she was not overly prolific but was perhaps most admired for her female detectives.  During her literary career Detective books were all the rage and authors of both sexes attempted to bring new and unusual angles of characters and narratives before the voracious public.   
  Corbett’s first was in a collection of short stories ‘Adventures of a Lady Detective featuring Dora Bell'.  A later novel introduced a further detective in the guise of Annie Cory. 
  Elizabeth Corbett died on in 1930.

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  Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point

  Alice B. Emerson

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  Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point by Alice B. Emerson is a charming classic adventure novel that follows the spirited and resourceful Ruth Fielding as she embarks on another exciting journey filled with friendship, discovery, and mystery. At the scenic Lighthouse Point, Ruth encounters new experiences and unexpected situations that challenge her courage, cleverness, and determination.
  
  Alice B. Emerson brings the coastal setting to life with vivid descriptions and engaging storytelling, creating a memorable tale filled with suspense, youthful curiosity, and heartfelt moments. As Ruth navigates unfamiliar surroundings and uncovers hidden secrets, she proves the value of loyalty, confidence, and perseverance while building lasting friendships along the way.
  
  A beloved installment in the Ruth Fielding series, Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point captures the timeless appeal of classic girls' fiction and adventure stories. Perfect for readers who enjoy vintage mysteries, coming-of-age tales, and wholesome narratives centered on friendship and personal growth, this enduring novel offers a delightful escape into a world of exploration, excitement, and discovery.

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  The Phantom of the Opera - A...

  Gaston Leroux

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  Beneath the Paris Opera lie five cellars, an underground lake, and a tenant whom the management pays not to think about. Leroux was a crime reporter first, and he built the novel as an investigation: witness statements, an inquest tone, and real machinery of the Palais Garnier, which does have a lake. The result is less a horror story than the strangest love triangle in French fiction. Sixty plates by Jean Béraud and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, from 1816 to 1921, catch the opera house, its crowds, and its dancers in the same reportorial light Leroux turned on its cellars.

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  Great Expectations

  Charles Dickens

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  Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery – poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death – and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith.Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. Great Expectations, popular with readers and literary critics, has been translated into many languages and adapted numerous times into various media.

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