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Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gillmore
Category: Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Rediscover a 20th-century classic of feminist fantasy... After surviving a shipwreck, five men are stranded on a deserted island...until they are discovered by five beautiful, winged women. Instantly, the men become infatuated with the women's abilities and attempt to lure them in with all of the rich ...Show more
Contending Forces by Pauline E. Hopkins
Category: Classics | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
In 1900, a mere 35 years after the Civil War had ended the practice of one human being owning another, Pauline Hopkins, black and female, published Contending Forces, whose rediscovery here shocks us into recognition that our national literature does indeed contain examples of black awareness and pride ...Show more
Dragonwyck by Anya Seton; Philippa Gregory (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
A novel of seduction, mystery, and danger set in New York's Hudson Valley in the nineteenth century, by the author of Foxfire. There was, on the Hudson, a way of life such as this, and there was a house not unlike Dragonwyck . . . In the spring of 1844, the Wells family receives a letter from a distant ...Show more
Foxfire by Anya Seton
Category: Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Anya Seton's Foxfire makes the desert Southwest of the Great Depression come alive in all its rich strangeness and passion-filled glory. Amanda Lawrence, a charming, sheltered New York socialite, falls in love with Jonathan Dartland, a part-Apache mining engineer who belongs to the vastness of the Arizo ...Show more
Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny; Robert Graham (Foreword by)
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
In a world half of light, half of darkness, where science and magic strive for dominance, there dwells a magical being who is friendly with neither side. Jack, of the realm of shadows, is a thief who is unjustly punished. So he embarks on a vendetta. He wanders through strange realms, encountering witch ...Show more
Lame Fate (Ugly Swans) by Arkady Strugatsky; Boris Strugatsky (Afterword by); Maya Vinokour (Translator)
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Today, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century, but their relationship with the late-Soviet literary establishment was often fraught. By the late 1960s, publishers had become increasingly reluctant to release their works, bu ...Show more
Lodore by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Also published as The Beautiful Widow, Mary Shelley's penultimate novel explores the web of relationships between three women, bound together by the exacting Lord Lodore: his estranged wife Cornelia, a woman ruled by her mother and the norms of aristocratic society; his daughter Ethel, raised in the wil ...Show more
Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart; Sandra Brown (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
A thrilling, twisty tale of a dangerous romance set in the heart of mid-century Savoy, from the original queen of romantic suspense. 'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times Linda Martin understands what is to be lonely: her parents died when she was young, and she was raised in an orphanage. When she is ...Show more
Stargate by Pauline Gedge
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
In the earliest years of the history of the universe, the Worldmaker has turned against his creations with unaccountable malice. One by one the ruling sun lords of each solar system have fallen, succumbing to the lure of forbidden knowledge. The terrible punishment for their crime is isolation--the Gate ...Show more
Sword at Sunset by SUTCLIFF ROSEMARY
Category: Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
This brilliant Arthurian epic cuts through the mists of pagan, early Christian, and medieval splendors that have gathered about the subject and tells the authentic story of the man who may well have been the real King Arthur-Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western ci ...Show more
The Beetle in the Anthill by Arkady Strugatsky; Boris Strugatsky (Afterword by); Olena Bormashenko (Translator)
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Today, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century. In their Noon Universe novels, they imagined twenty-second-century Earth as a space-faring communist utopia, devoted to guiding the progress of civilization on alien worlds. ...Show more
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery
Category: Childrens | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Somewhere between Green Gables and Avonlea there is a Blue Castle.... Lucy Maud Montgomery, internationally best-selling Canadian author, wrote about girls who escaped into the wild when the world stopped making sense. Her girl-protagonists straddle the line between 'civilized' towns of the 1900s, a ...Show more