In some of his best known cases including 'The Speckled Band' and 'The Reigate Puzzle', Holmes brings his unique powers of deduction to bear on the most challenging mysteries.(back cover)The adventure of the speckled band -- The adventures of the blue carbuncle -- The Musgrave ritual -- The Reigate puzzle -- Silver Blaze -- The adventure of the dancing men -- The adventure of the six Napoleons -- The missing three-quarter

    M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one–in the words of Laurence Houseman, author of the classic Rocking-Horse Land– “is an expression of the joy of living.”Accompanied by the illustrations from the original editions of these works–by such celebrated Victorian artists as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Maxfield Parrish, and Arthur Rackham–this collection will delight readers both young and old.

    Full-color and b&w illustrations.

    Their prospects looked bleak until the friends were sent to help out at Hemingway Shipping Line's emigrant lodging house. Then their youthful high spirits blossomed into their plans for the future.But the First World War brought an end to those plans, and threatened to separate them.As time passes, Meg grows more and more beautiful, and the love the two men feel for her becomes passionately possessive. Meg, in different ways, is in love with both Tom and Martin . . . and is to bear a child by one of them.Grief and suffering, as well as happiness and hope, must all play their part before the childhood friends' deep and complex relationships are finally and tragically resolved.

    All I can say is that there were boys younger than me down the coal mines every day of their lives, and boys with bleeding limbs forced up chimney flues, with brine rubbed in their wounds to harden their flesh. That's true immorality; so save your pity and revulsion for that.London in the final quarter of the nineteenth century, where the wealth and elegance of the few lies heavily on top of the squalor of the many. In its busy West End streets, Willie Smith soon learns to use his youth and beauty as a means to escape the grinding poverty of his East End background, as he discovers the real world that lies hidden beneath the veneer of Victorian respectability.

    Recording the minutiae of family life, as well as meetings with aquaintances of her husband, Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne.

    All was peace . . . until Isa learned of a treacherous plot to unearth an ancient treasure--and murder the powerful Chieftain of the Clan McNaver, Bruce, Duke of Strathnaver. Isa knew she must warn him. But would the proud, cynical and much-pursued Duke heed the lovely lass who dared all to save his life?

    In Uneven Developments Poovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology. Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture. She then reveals the role of this opposition in various discourses and institutions—medical, legal, moral, and literary. The resulting oppositions, partly because they depended on the subordination of one term to another, were always unstable. Poovey contends that this instability helps explain why various institutional versions of binary logic developed unevenly. This unevenness, in turn, helped to account for the emergence in the 1850s of a genuine oppositional voice: the voice of an organized, politicized feminist movement. Drawing on a wide range of sources—parliamentary debates, novels, medical lectures, feminist analyses of work, middle-class periodicals on demesticity—Poovey examines various controversies that provide glimpses of the ways in which representations of gender were simultaneously constructed, deployed, and contested. These include debates about the use of chloroform in childbirth, the first divorce law, the professional status of writers, the plight of governesses, and the nature of the nursing corps. Uneven Developments is a contribution to the feminist analysis of culture and ideology that challenges the isolation of literary texts from other kinds of writing and the isolation of women's issues from economic and political histories.

    When she isn't fending off the clumsy amorous overtures of a British medical officer, Marigold is usually at the royal palace teaching English to the queen's scribe Lady Chu-sun, whom she hopes to convert to Christianity. Unwittingly, Marigold becomes entangled in a perilous situation when she learns that Chu-sun's lover, Kim Tuk-so, has been sent away by Queen Min so her repugnant son can wed the agonized girl himself. Touched by this story, Marigold agrees to deliver an urgent message from Chu-sun to Kim Tuk-so when she journeys up the Han River with Rev. Gifford Partridge. Along the way, they encounter numerous dangers and meet Mark Banning, a roguish, enigmatic gold miner who saves Marigold's life and captures her heart, yet resolutely refuses to commit himself to her. Brown's characterizations are complex, subtle and credible, and she expertly integrates historical detail into the exciting, suspenseful narrative.

    By attending to the distinctive power of Arnold's writing to charm, tease, persuade, and irritate, the book provides a brilliant characterization of the tone and temper of his mind.This edition includes a substantial Afterword which reflects on Arnold's continuing polemical significance and his role in contemporary cultural debate.

    Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, and Kidnapped, but his essays comprise an oft-overlooked trove of gems, intriguing in their content and generous in their scope. This collection of nearly three dozen of Stevenson's best essays - the only anthology of its kind - spans his brief life and includes many of his most celebrated pieces and some others previously unpublished.

    The best etiquette book of the Civil War period is combined with a dictionary of vulgarisms and illustrated from Godey's Lady's books and with men's uniforms of the period.

    Fryer throws the darker side of the empire into graphic and harrowing relief.' New Statesman Acclaimed historian Peter Fryer exposes the exploitation and oppression of Britain's colonies, and restores black people to their rightful place in Britain's history.