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  Bess of the Woods - A...

  Warwick Deeping

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  A gamekeeper's daughter in eighteenth-century Sussex, a squire's son, a smuggling gang and a wood that hides all of them. Warwick Deeping wrote seventy novels and this early one is his most physical: the fights and the flights are staged with a real sense of ground. The class barrier is the plot and the book does not pretend it can be argued away. Fifty-nine paintings by Constable, Clausen and others follow the wood, the field and the changing sky through the same Sussex ground the story walks.

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  Unknown to History - A Story of...

  Charlotte M. Yonge

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  Mary Stuart in captivity at Sheffield and Tutbury, and a girl brought up in a Puritan household who may be the daughter the Queen of Scots lost — a question that draws her into Babington's plot and the trial at Fotheringhay. Yonge wrote from the sources and the state papers; this 1882 novel treats Mary neither as martyr nor as murderess, which in the nineteenth century was almost a political act. Fifty-seven plates after Turner, Gainsborough and their peers carry the sea light and ruined castles of a story lived out along the coast and in the great houses of the captivity.

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  Georgian Folk Tales - Stories...

  Marjory Scott Wardrop

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  Tales from Georgia collected in the 1890s: the king's son who sought the water of life, the fox and the hare, the master and the pupil, and stories of the deeds of hero-kings. Marjory Wardrop learned Georgian in order to translate it and produced the first English versions of the country's literature. The tales are unlike anything in Europe, and her plain prose lets them stay that way. Sixty plates of Caucasus peaks, horsemen and mountain light by painters including Ivan Aivazovsky and Wacław Pawliszak carry the tales' wild landscape across the centuries.

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  Archibald Malmaison - A Life...

  Julian Hawthorne

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  Archibald Malmaison has two lives and no memory of either while living the other — the fits come every seven years, and in the gaps he is a different man with a different mind. Julian Hawthorne grew up among Emerson, Thoreau and Melville, produced some fifty books and later went to prison for mail fraud over a mining stock; this 1879 novella is his best, and the horror is entirely psychological. Sixty plates by painters including Henry Fuseli and Richard Wilson follow the divided self through scenes of Milton, castles and abbeys, matching the novella's split life with images of doubled minds and ruined keeps.

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  Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen

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  Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime. The novel did not receive any public reviews until 1821.
  The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at age ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood. From early on critical interpretation has been diverse, differing particularly over the character of the heroine, Austen's views about theatrical performance and the centrality or otherwise of ordination and religion, and on the question of slavery. Some of these problems have been highlighted in the several later adaptations of the story for stage and screen.

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  The Castle

  Franz Kafka

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  The haunting classic about hope, fear and absurdity - Franz Kafka's The Castle is an expressionistic masterpiece. 
   
  An imposing castle looms over a village and no one seems to be allowed inside...not even K., the Land Surveyor whose livelihood depends on getting inside. Though never completed due to Kafka's untimely death, The Castle paints a striking image of absurdity and the nature of existence itself.

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