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A Shot in the Dark by Saki
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
In Saki's world a despotic dog becomes his owner's master, a rural community is hoodwinked into believing in the predictive powers of a pair of friends, and Eve stubbornly refuses to touch the Forbidden Fruit...Although unquestionably of its time, each story ridicules the follies of the society around i ...Show more
Behind a Mask by Louisa May Alcott
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
Louisa May Alcott's Behind a Mask is an ingenious study of deception and betrayal, and of the ruthless power of a woman scorned. When demure Scottish governess Jean Muir arrives at a wealthy household, the family couldn't be more thrilled with their new young resident, and find themselves quite beguiled ...Show more
Carlyle's House and Other Sketches by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
This title is considered to be a lost work by Virginia Woolf.
Carmen by Prosper Merimee
Category: Parenting | Series: Hesperus Classics
When Jose meets a gypsy woman, he is intrigued by her exoticism, but he has no idea that his chance encounter with 'the pretty witch' will have disastrous consequences. With her magic and her malevolent spirit, Carmen exerts a powerful charm on the submissive and unwitting Jose, who is drawn into a seed ...Show more
Directions To Servants by Swift Jonathan
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
Taking the form of a handbook of manners, and addressed to each servant individually, Directions to Servants is the ultimate upstairs/downstairs battle. With scathing wit, Swift pits master against servant in an endless struggle for order, frugality and the best bits of the roast. His servants are lazy, ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a profound exploration into the human subconscious twinned with a terrifying portrayal of the dangers of imperialism. Seaman Marlow tells of his journey to the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the elusive Mr Kurtz. Away from civilisation as he knows it, he comes to r ...Show more
Hyde Park Gate News by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. They called the paper 'Hyde Park Gate News', and the original manuscripts are published here for the first time. Ing ...Show more
Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl by Jenny Wren
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Hesperus Classics
Offering a woman's take on life's preoccupations, Jenny Wren presents her amusing thoughts on matters ranging from love an dpolitics to tea and bills: 'Why were such things invented?' Her witty musings also consider children and dogs, alongside such subjects as the town, the country, dancing and concert ...Show more
Lois the Witch by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics Ser.
Newly orphaned, the God-fearing and heart-broken Lois is sent across the Atlantic to live with her uncle's family in Salem, but on her arrival she finds herself the object of cruel hostility, potent jealousy and mad desire. When the local Pastor's daughters are contorted and convulsed by apparently ...Show more
Love and Friendship by Jane Austen
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
Only single-volume edition available of this exciting dramatic early novella which is an unknown work for Jane Austen's many fans. Written in a series of letters to the daughter of a friend, Love and Friendship tells of a young girl's path to betrayal, by way of a seemingly ecstatic marriage. It is acco ...Show more
Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
A collection of eight deliberately fragmentary and experimental sketches, 'Monday or Tuesday' remains unique in being the only volume of short stories that Virginia Woolf published herself, and follows on from Hesperus' publication of the undiscovered 'Carlyle's House and Other Sketches'.