Features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. This title shows how, forced to move from t

Elizabeth Gaskell's much loved novel of small town rural life, introduced by Dr Josie Billington and with illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson

Met Het zesde uitsterven opende Elizabeth Kolbert de ogen van velen voor de desastreuze effecten die we als mensheid hebben op de atmosfeer, de oceane

‘Valentijn’ van Elizabeth Wetmore speelt zich af in februari 1976 in Odessa, Texas waar in de vroege uurtjes na Valentijnsdag de veertienjarige Gloria

That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fa

A pioneering comparative history of British, French, Dutch, Belgian, and Portuguese decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcoloni

Elizabeth Day, auteur van Het feest, schreef met Schaduwstad eveneens een vlijmscherpe roman over de Britse elite. Howard Pink is een selfmade miljon

Gaskell's depiction of a fallen woman as her heroine shocked contemporary readers. Ruth is seduced and heartlessly abandoned but finds shelter and lov

Cranford is a vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, dominated by its independent and refined women, a blend

A classic gothic tale from the author of }Cranford{, published as part of the }Art Of The Novella{ series. Explores issues of class and religious tens

Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this edition of North and South is presented with extra material and notes to the text.

One of Elizabeth Gaskell's best known novels, sometimes called an industrial novel or social novel, about the industrialization of cities in northern

Molly Gibson is the spirited, loyal daughter of the local doctor. Their peaceful close-knit home is turned upside down when Molly's father decides to

Set in a fictional Whitby at the turn of the eighteenth century, Sylvia's Lovers (1863) is a compelling story of an ordinary girl's tragic passion for