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  Fair Exchange and No Robbery

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.
  Fair Exchange and No Robbery: Katherine Rangely was packing up. Her chum and roommate, Edith Wilmer, was sitting on the bed watching her in that calm disinterested fashion peculiarly maddening to a bewildered packer.

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  First Love

  Ivan Turgenev

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  The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's "epiphanies") that transforms the character's whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes - e.g. "but at that point my attention was arrested by the appearance of a speckled woodpecker who busily climbed up the slender stem of a birch-tree and peeped out uneasily from behind it, first to the right, then to the left, like a musician behind the bass-viol." (Summary by Martin Geeson)

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  Trent’s Last Case

  E. C. Bentley

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  Written in 1912 as a light-hearted reaction against the solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Trent’s Last Case, with its ingeniously twisting plot and cheerfully self-mocking hero, is the first classic of the golden age of English detective fiction. 
  When a powerful and ruthless American millionaire is found murdered in his English country garden, Philip Trent—English painter, poetry lover, and amateur detective—delves into the crime. He successively uncovers three different, plausible solutions to the murder, and in the process, comes face to face with his own fallibility, in detection and in romance.

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  The Lillies - From their pens to...

  Kate Chopin

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  Katherine O'Flaherty was born on the 8th February 1850 in St Louis, Missouri to parents of French and Irish descent. 
  At age 5, she was sent to the Sacred Heart Academy and, apart from a 2 year period at home when her father died, remained there until graduating in 1868.  Whilst there she began writing and became an avid reader of almost anything that crossed her path.   
  Kate married Oscar Chopin in 1870 and the couple moved to New Orleans, and later to the rural setting of Cloutierville, Louisiana to raise their 6 children.  
  In 1882 her husband died leaving her in a deep trench of debt.  Despite her best efforts to turn the businesses around they were sold, and she moved the family back to St Louis and the financial help of her mother.  Sadly, her mother died within the year.  Kate, now struggling with depression, pushed herself to write and gained a local reputation as a writer of short stories that captured the local color and vibrancy of her surroundings.  
  By the early 1890’s her short stories were published nationally.  With this widespread audience also came negative reviews, controversy, and cries of immorality as themes such as interracial relationships, the rights of women and other burning issues of the day were written about. 
  Despite the criticism, which unnerved her, she continued to write though in the main her works, around 100 short stories and two novels, were not attributed with any literary worth. 
  Kate Chopin died from a brain haemorrhage in St Louis Missouri on the 22nd of August 1904.  She was 54. 
  For much of the 20th Century her work was forgotten and out of print.  It was only in early 1970’s, with the rise of feminism and the call for a more just society that she was given the status her works had long described and shone a literary light at.  She is now safely revered as one of America’s great authors.

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  The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - A...

  Victor Hugo

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  The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris) by Victor Hugo is an iconic tale set against the backdrop of 15th-century Paris, centered around the majestic Notre-Dame Cathedral. At its heart is the tragic story of Quasimodo, the deformed and isolated bell-ringer, and his deep, unrequited love for the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda. Through the lives of these unforgettable characters, Hugo weaves themes of love, fate, compassion, and the duality of beauty and monstrosity—both in the human form and in society. 
  What sets this translation apart from all others is its modern, reader-friendly approach. Previous versions of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame often rely on formal, archaic English that can create distance between the reader and the text. This new translation, however, brings Hugo’s vibrant prose to life with contemporary language while staying faithful to his original intent. The goal is to make this classic novel more accessible, without losing the depth, emotion, or complexity that have captivated readers for nearly two centuries. 
  By focusing on smooth, engaging storytelling, this version invites a new generation of readers into Hugo’s world—one filled with passion, tragedy, and social critique—while still honoring the timeless power of his words. Whether you are encountering The Hunchback of Notre-Dame for the first time or returning to it, this translation ensures that Hugo’s masterpiece resonates just as strongly today as it did when it was first published.

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  Rip Van Winkle

  Washington Irving

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  A short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution.

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