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"This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver,Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of

In rural nineteenth-century England, a weaver, lonely and embittered at the unjust treatment he has received from people he considered to be his friends, finds his only solace in money until he ina

Finalist for the 2014 Silver Birch Express Award Danny finds himself stranded at the bottom of a giant construction hole, armed with nothing but his school backpack, his wits — and the co

When Ethan arrives at summer camp for the first time, he has just three modest goals. First, to survive. Second, not to be hated. Third, not to be the worst at anything.

Sisters Dorothea and Cecilia live in genteel poverty in an English village.

Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede was George Eliot's first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publicat

These thirty-five brief stories — and the found photographs that inspired them — are by turns realistic and surreal, bloody and tender, delightful and appalling.

Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book.

"Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society."--Container.

When Jeremiah Birnbaum becomes obsessed with the banjo, his best friend, Luella, convinces him to learn how to play despite his parent forbidding him from it.

If there is one person to whom Lady Marlowe would rather not owe her life, it is the Duke of Buckington, a man she detests.

A thrilling story set against the background of England, India and 19th Century Hong Kong.

In order to save his ancestral home and estate, the Earl of Irchester must do the unthinkable and marry the daughter of Groon, the most notorious Usurer in the whole of 19th century London.

The war with Napoleon won, the Earl of Hellington begins another campaign, the pursuit of a pretty yet infuriating young milliner who evades all his attempts to make her his mistress.

Disguised as a French governess, Nadina Talbort is hiding in Constantinople wondering how she will get back to England.