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  The Coliseum

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Coliseum: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.
  
  Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary
  Of lofty contemplation left to Time
  By buried centuries of pomp and power!

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  My Red Cap - From their pens to...

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Louisa May Alcott was born on 29th November 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. 
  She is most definitely a writer of her own experiences.  Her father was a transcendentalist, philosopher and educational experimenter who founded, Fruitlands, a utopian community. Although poor, her liberal and progressive parents provided Louisa with much of her education, which was enhanced by many family friends that included Thoreau, Hawthorne and Emerson, a neighbour whose library she was often found reading in.    
  She started writing stories as a way of providing the family with some financial stability. Times were difficult and the effects of poverty were always close at hand.  During the Civil War she went to Washington to be a nurse and became ill with typhoid fever although she continued to write and build her success.  However, the treatment for typhus gave her mercury poisoning which caused further health issues for the rest of her life and eventually contributed to her death.   
  Alcott visited her father on his deathbed in Boston. Two days later on 6th March 1888 she also died resulting in a joint funeral.

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  A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys -...

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Six Greek myths retold to a group of children by a student at a Berkshire farmhouse: Midas and the golden touch, Pandora's box, Perseus, Bellerophon and the chimaera. Hawthorne wrote it in 1851 in the Berkshires, the same year as "The House of the Seven Gables", and insisted that the myths could be told for children without moralising. Midas's daughter is his own addition and the best thing in the book. Forty-two plates of summer meadows, elms, and warm family gardens by painters such as Eastman Johnson and George Inness give Hawthorne's fireside tales a golden, sunlit world to live in.

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  Equality - The Sequel to Looking...

  Edward Bellamy

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  Julian West, awake in the year 2000, is taken through the economics of the new order — how the credit card works, why there is no money, what happened to the lawyers, what the women wear and why. Bellamy's first book sold hundreds of thousands and spawned more than 160 Nationalist Clubs across America; this one is the argument he thought the first had left unfinished, and he answers his critics by name. Fifty-eight plates, from Friedrich's icebound ships to Carlsen's fishermen, carry the same sea and weather that fill Bellamy's utopian argument.

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  The Lie - From their pens to...

  Holloway Horn

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Holloway Horn.

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  Notes from a Dead House

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Dostoevsky draws on his own imprisonment to depict life in a Siberian labor camp. Through vivid detail and poignant reflection, he explores the harsh realities of incarceration—the brutality, monotony, and small moments of humanity among prisoners. Dostoevsky delves into the psychological and spiritual resilience of individuals stripped of freedom, highlighting their diverse backgrounds and shared suffering. The work transcends memoir, offering a profound meditation on justice, redemption, and the enduring strength of the human spirit. With compassion and insight, Dostoevsky reveals the capacity for dignity and hope even in the darkest circumstances.

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