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  Emma

  Jane Austen

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  Albeit that she is not yet 21, Emma Woodhouse foresees a future as a spinster dabbling in matchmaking. Charming and infuriating, she almost ruins the marriage prospects of Harriet Smith, her protégée, after misguidedly attempting to match Harriet with the local rector, who is in fact in search of a wealthy wife. Reprimanded by her friend, George Knightly, and misled by Frank Crawford, whom she saw as a potential suitor, Emma learns some valuable lessons in humility and about love and marriage.

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  The Tragedy of a Comic Song -...

  Leonard Merrick

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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 Walter Besant.

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  The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter -...

  Grace Tiffany

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  ""Witty, resilient, and fiercely intelligent, Judith emerges as a heroine for the ages. Her journey, rich in historical authenticity and imaginative storytelling, offers insights that resonate across the centuries.""—Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of The Exiles 
  For readers of Hilary Mantel and Madeline Miller, a deeply engrossing work of historical fiction—a tale of a woman of the Shakespeare family struggling to manage both her private grief and public danger.   
  At the age of sixty-one, Judith Shakespeare, a midwife-apothecary and twin of the long-dead Hamnet, must flee provincial Stratford on horseback to avoid arrest for witchcraft. Her traveling companions are a zealous Puritan woman and child who have been displaced by civil war—the bloody seventeenth-century strife between Royalists and Roundheads. Judith is also leaving her marriage, which has foundered since the wrenching loss of two adult sons to the plague. 
  The sequel to the author’s My Father Had a Daughter, a tale of Judith in her youth, The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter revisits this character for the ages—Shakespeare’s sharp-tongued, witty youngest child, no less feisty in her maturity. Four-hundred years after Judith’s death, Grace Tiffany brings her back onto center stage. Judith’s latest tale offers profound insights—into friendship, motherhood, marriage, religious extremism, and war—which remain resoundingly true today. 
  This work is narrated in Original Pronunciation, that is, Early Modern English, as a nod to the phonological system of Shakespeare’s time. 

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  Complete Works of H P Lovecraft...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft contains all the original stories which Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It begins in 1917 with "The Tomb" and ends in 1935 with his last original work "The Haunter of the Dark." The book is ordered chronologically by the date the story was written.

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  Minds in Ferment

  Anton Chekhov

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  The story takes place during the day in the market square. Two ordinary people walking along it, the treasurer Pocheshikhin and the correspondent of "Son of the Fatherland" Optimov, drew attention to a flock of starlings flying past. The flock sat down in the garden of the archpriest's father. During the discussion about where the flock finally sat down, in the garden of the father of the archpriest or the father of the deacon Vratoadov, passers-by began to gather around them: three old pilgrims, the father himself, Archpriest Vosmistishiev, deacon Evstigney, local vacationers, clerks.
  People began to worry whether there was a fire somewhere. Gradually a crowd gathered. They called the mayor Akim Danilych, who began to disperse the crowd. Firefighters appeared and came without water or equipment. During the excitement of the gathered crowd, a new organ received from Moscow began to sound in a nearby tavern. Hearing the organ, the crowd flocked to the tavern.
  In the evening, Akim Danilych, at the grocery store, wrote a letter about this event, in which he thanked "with tears the One who did not allow bloodshed."

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  The Raven

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'"
  
  Few works of literature have captured the public imagination—or the chill of a winter's midnight—quite like Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. First published in 1845, this hypnotic narrative poem remains the gold standard for atmospheric storytelling, tracing a grieving scholar's slow descent into insanity as he is visited by a mysterious, talking bird.
  
  A Symphony of Dread and Beauty: The Raven is a masterclass in "The Philosophy of Composition." Poe meticulously engineered every stanza to evoke a singular effect: a beauty tinged with sadness. Through its rhythmic, driving meter and rich, classical allusions, the poem explores the universal human experience of grief and the terrifying realization that some losses are eternal. It is a work where the boundaries between the supernatural and the psychological blur, leaving the reader to wonder if the raven is a demonic messenger or a mere projection of a fractured mind.
  
  From its "tapping" at the chamber door to the haunting shadow on the floor, The Raven continues to influence modern art, film, and music. This volume is an essential cornerstone for any library of classic poetry, horror fiction, and Dark Romanticism.
  
  Open the door to the shadows. Buy "The Raven" today and experience the most famous poem in the English language.

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