Jane Austen sets social snobbery against summer picnics; social rejection against the passion of real love. Her warm portrait of the relationship between two very different sisters contrasts her...

'The Age of Innocence' is a love story, and a minute dissection of old New York society in the 1870s. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, is a product of this society; he accepts its standards,...

This is the story of a madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, the book is part of its...

This is the story of two women who share laughter and tears, and swap their confidences, dreams and fears. And, between the grenades, the gossip, the jokes and the secrets, they also hatch an...

This volume sets out to illustrate in both words and pictures the physical world of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, as alluded to by Austen, so that readers can enjoy her novels with...