In one terrified instant, ship's officer Jim abandons a sinking vessel full of passengers he believes are already doomed - and survives to find out they weren't.
90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIn October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris a dreamlike journey towards getting lost.
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPriests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Baz n, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and feminist.
Charming, witty and profound, this stylish 50th anniversary hardback edition of A LIFE IN LETTERS is the perfect addition to any Wodehouse-lover's bookcase.
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksA young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town, but finds herself writing about the lives of its inhabitants instead their occupation with memory and tradition, their vibrant female friendships, and the idyll of the landscape that informs their sense of togetherness.
An English novelist takes a villa in the Italian lakes to write, and finds his neighbor is a duchess, his gardener's daughter is not what she seems, and the local cardinal has a snuff-box and an eye for a plot.
A suburban couple take in a paying guest to help with the rent, and she is a young woman of energy, ambition and no manners whatever - after which nothing in the house is safe.
A count dies leaving twelve millions and no legitimate heir anyone can find - and a valet, a mistress, a doctor and a lawyer all know a different piece of why.
A Long Island family with a beautiful daughter comes to New York to sell her - into a chorus line first, then into the best marriage the mother can arrange, the auction block being the point of the title.
A man with a burden on his back leaves the City of Destruction and walks - through the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair and the Valley of the Shadow - toward a city he has only heard of.
Quatermain at eighteen, in love with a Boer girl whose father will not have an Englishman, caught in the siege of a mission station and then in the Great Trek - and at Retief's massacre by Dingaan, which he watched from a hill.
A woman learns on her honeymoon that her husband has been tried for murdering his first wife and let go on a Scotch verdict of Not Proven - and decides that a wife may investigate what a court would not.
An Eastern writer of Western stories, told he has never seen the West, goes to Montana to gather material and is put to work punching cows by men who know exactly what he is.
Stories of men in the woods and on the water: a Canadian guide, a trout stream, a keeper of a lighthouse, a boy and a canoe - and in each one a governing passion that decides everything.
A rich patron brings a brilliant young American sculptor to Rome to make him great, and watches him instead discover women, idleness and his own limits.
Robin Hood as high comedy: Marian, an heiress who can shoot better than most of the outlaws, walks out of her own wedding into Sherwood, and the friar, the baron and the sheriff argue about it in perfect Regency prose.
A young American in London begins a courtship through the personal column of a newspaper, and to hold the girl's interest invents a murder in the house next door - then the murder happens.
Billy is engaged to Bertram, and everyone in both families has an opinion - while a composer, a sister-in-law and a very great deal of Boston propriety take a hand.
