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  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde

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  A haunting and unforgettable novel that explores vanity, temptation, and the hidden consequences of a life devoted to pleasure.
  
  Dorian Gray is a handsome young man whose beauty captivates everyone around him. After wishing that his portrait would age in his place, he begins a dangerous journey through luxury, obsession, and moral decline while his appearance remains untouched by time.
  
  As Dorian sinks deeper into selfishness and corruption, the mysterious portrait reveals the truth hidden beneath his flawless exterior. The novel masterfully examines themes of beauty, identity, influence, guilt, and the conflict between outward appearance and inner reality.
  
  Blending gothic atmosphere with sharp wit and philosophical insight, Oscar Wilde creates a powerful story filled with elegance, suspense, and psychological depth.
  
  Written by Oscar Wilde, this literary classic remains one of the most influential and thought-provoking novels ever written.
  
  Step into a world of beauty, secrets, and dark ambition—download your copy today.

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  Swann's Way - The First Book of...

  Marcel Proust

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  A man tastes a madeleine soaked in tea and the whole of his childhood returns unbidden — the most famous few pages in modern fiction open a novel that is, in fact, about how little we control what we remember. Proust wrote through the night in a cork-lined room and could not find a publisher for the first volume; he paid for it himself. Sixty plates by Claude Monet and his contemporaries follow the garden at Giverny, the Paris streets and the Normandy coast through the same years Proust was writing.

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  The Rise of Roscoe Paine - A...

  Joseph Crosby Lincoln

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  A man who has buried his own name after his father's disgrace keeps house for his mother on a Cape Cod bluff, and does nothing whatever — until a right-of-way, a millionaire's daughter and a piece of town politics oblige him to be somebody again. Lincoln built a whole career out of one place; the town meeting in this one is as good as anything in American regional fiction, and Roscoe's uselessness is diagnosed rather than excused. Fifty-eight plates by painters from Winslow Homer to Edvard Munch, taking in harbors, homeward rowers and houses by the water, keep the salt light of the Cape on every page.

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  A Substitute Journalist

  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.
  A Substitute Journalist: Clifford Baxter came into the sitting-room where Patty was darning stockings and reading a book at the same time. Patty could do things like that. The stockings were well darned too, and Patty understood and remembered what she read.

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  The Specification - From their...

  Owen Oliver

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  Joshua Albert Flynn was born in Sheerness, Kent, on 15th September 1863.   
  He was educated at private schools and later graduated from King's College, London.    
  His initial career was with the Civil Service where he thrived.  A marriage to Ada Parkinson brought two sons and three daughters into their lives.   
  He worked in South Africa as a financial adviser to Lord Kitchener before stints at the Admiralty and the War Office.  In 1916 he was appointed director-general of finance at the Ministry of Pensions.  His stellar professional career brought him a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1910 and a knighthood in 1919.  
  His career in literature, under the pseudonym ‘Owen Oliver’, started late and is almost forgotten today. Although he wrote a handful of novels, he was well regarded as the author of short stories for children.  But amongst the 250 stories he wrote and published in the leading periodicals and the magazines of the day his ambitions spread much wider.  He was able to write across a number of genres.  His humourous stories received particular praise as did his many science fiction stories, where undoubtedly his time in Government helped bring across a particular way of imparting information into the structure of narratives as normal everyday folk came up against terrifying and dystopian happenings. 
  Owen Oliver, died in Streatham, south London on 8th October 1933.  He was 70.

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  The Adventures of Mr Verdant...

  Cuthbert Bede

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  A freshman arrives at Oxford knowing nothing and is relieved of his money, his dignity and most of his illusions in his first term. Bradley wrote it under a pen name without ever having been an Oxford man — he had studied at Durham; it sold a hundred thousand copies and is the ancestor of every comic university novel since. Its 133 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

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