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  Doubly False - A Marriage Built...

  Ann S. Stephens

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  Two cousins, both christened Cora Virginia Lander and alike enough to pass for sisters, are sailing home from school in Europe with rich Amos Lander when the steamer catches fire in mid-ocean. Cora saves herself by leaping for the first boat; Virginia stays with her father to the end and is pulled from the sea an orphan. Back on the Lander estate the will and the two identical names give Cora an idea about which girl is the daughter, and she is ready to disown her own mother to carry it through; the handsome stranger Horace Seymour, with money and a past under another name, suits her plans very well. Ann Stephens wrote Malaeska, the first of Beadle's dime novels, and kept serial readers turning pages for half a century. Sixty marine plates by Winslow Homer and Ivan Aivazovsky, from night coasts to ocean swells, follow the drowning and the rescue that set the whole deception adrift.

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  King Solomon's Mines

  H. Rider Haggard

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  Written in 1885, “King Solomon’s Mines” by Henry Rider Haggard is at first glance, very much a book of its time. Its narrator, Alan Quartermain, is the archetype Colonial white hunter and adventurer.  
  He thinks nothing of bagging an elephant or two for its tusks or a giraffe for its meat, and his attitude towards the natives of South Africa is undoubtedly paternal at best. However, by the end of his exciting tale there is no doubting his admiration and affection for the brave warriors whom he finds himself fighting alongside.  
  And an exciting story it is!  Upon reading it we soon realise how it has influenced the Epic Adventure story ever since, from Kipling and Conan Doyle to “The Lord of the Rings” and “Indiana Jones”.

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  The Railway Children - A...

  Yvonne Schaefer

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  A sudden tragedy. A mysterious disappearance. A new life at the edge of the tracks. 
  Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis have always known a comfortable life in a beautiful London villa. But when two strangers arrive in the night and their father is unexpectedly taken away, their world is turned upside down. Forced to leave their home and relocate to "Three Chimneys," a drafty little cottage in the country, the children must adapt to a life of sudden poverty. 
  Without their father, and with their mother working tirelessly to keep food on the table, the children turn to the nearby railway for comfort and adventure. The tracks become the center of their new world—a place of danger, discovery, and unexpected friendships. From mining for coal to writing desperate messages on white sheets for the passing "Green Dragon" train, the siblings learn to navigate a landscape filled with kindly station masters, injured Russian exiles, and the looming mystery of their father's absence. 
  Narrated with warmth and captivating charm by Yvonne Schaefer, The Railway Children is a profoundly moving story about resilience, the kindness of strangers, and the unbreakable bonds of family. A timeless classic that will warm your heart and keep you listening all the way down the line.

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  The Awakening and Selected Short...

  Kate Chopin

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  A young wife summers on Grand Isle, learns to swim, and begins to want a life that Louisiana in 1899 has no room for. Chopin was widowed at thirty-two with six children and wrote to feed them; reviewers called this book morbid and vulgar, it was quietly dropped from the shelves, and she published almost nothing more. It waited fifty years to be read properly. Eight of her short stories follow it, among them Désirée's Baby and A Pair of Silk Stockings. Ninety-eight plates by painters including Childe Hassam and Winslow Homer carry the shore itself, from Newport to Nassau, through the same years Chopin's heroine was learning to want more.

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  The Shaving of Shagpat - An...

  George Meredith

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  Shibli Bagarag, a barber of Persia, is destined to shave Shagpat the clothier — who has one enchanted hair in his head, and rules the city through it. To do it he needs a magic sword, a woman who understands the business, and the Event. Meredith wrote this in his twenties in the manner of the Arabian Nights, and it is the strangest first novel by any Victorian novelist: an allegory about idolatry that is also a genuine comic epic. Fifty-nine plates, among them Walford Graham Robertson and George Harcourt, gather the Oriental dreamscape and quiet interiors that suit Meredith's Arabian tale of barbers, swords, and enchanted hair.

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  The Master of Ballantrae

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  The year is 1745, and Prince Charlie of the defeated royal house of Stuart, has just returned to Scottish soil. A weighty choice faces every Scottish man. Should he stitch a white cockade to his hat and join the fight to restore James, Prince Charlie's father to the British throne? Or should he stay at home and back George II, the reigning King. One Lowland family, the Duries of Durisdeer and Ballantrae, believe they've found a clever way to sidestep the decision. With the toss of a coin, a choice is made that will haunt their lives forever.Critics consider this to be Stevenson's greatest work. For, though there is plenty of adventure, (including midnight duels, pirates and smugglers), the true merit of the novel comes from the author's masterly portrayal of the fraternal enemies. If you've never read this book, you won't want to miss this!

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