'Valentine would come out of her oratory intensely excited, with her nerves on edge and the blood...

It is a long and golden summer in the Edwardian period. London is abuzz with gentlemen in tall ha...

They were in the dogs' cemetery. Lady Castleyard tapped a little crooked cross. 'One fears,' she ...

It is the early 1950s. Lionel Spote, a young London publisher, has just discovered that he has in...

As the war drew to a close, its heavy toll weighed mightily on Stella Benson’s heart. Any means o...

Gösta Berling is a failed parson in nineteenth century rural Sweden, too fond of pleasure and the...

It is the late 1920s, and beautiful young Eve Wentworth is in a sticky situation. Both Harold and...

In two brilliant collections of stories, Reginald (1904) and Reginald in Russia (1910), which spa...

Roderick Random's story is a classic rambunctious tale of rags and riches, set in the mid-eightee...

The neat ship Grosvenor is fully laden and crewed, and slowly traversing the English Channel, rea...

As the days of sail begin to give way to those of steam, Sir Mordaunt Brookes has built a boat. T...

In 1909, ten years had elapsed since Max Beerbohm’s last volume of essays. In thetime which had...