1058 títulos para "Mint Editions"

Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

An embattled inheritance, accusations of madness, scheming villainy and much more tie into the labyrinthine plot of one of the most celebrated and sensational novels of the Victorian era." A young man just beginning a new job in London meets with a strange woman on a moonlit road, offers her assista...

House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

A dazzling exploration of social currency, love, and hypocrisy among the Gilded Ages upper crust, The House of Mirth is a classic novel that remains essential reading. Beautiful Lily Bart is a young New York socialite who enjoys everything that high society in the late 19th century has to offer. She...

Dubliners

James Joyce

<p>This extraordinary collection of fifteen short stories was James Joyces first published work. The stories in <I>Dubliners</I> begin with vignettes of childhood, progress to adolescence, and conclude with "The Dead". In Joyces portrayal of various classes of Irish life and daily...

Shadow-Line

Joseph Conrad

A new captain must lead his crew to safety and face his own internal struggles as he works to overcome disrespect, insanity, and coming-of-age all while sailing on an unforgiving sea. There is an invisible line that divides life into a before and after--adolescence and adulthood. The unnamed narra...

My Own Story

Emmeline Pankhurst

My Own Story (1914) is a memoir by English political activist and suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Written at the onset of the First World War, My Own Story brings attention to Pankhursts cause while defending her decision to cease activism until the end of the war. Notable for its descriptions of th...

Sarrasine

Honore de Balzac

Sarrasine (1831) is a novella by French author Honoré de Balzac. Written as part of his La Comédie humaine sequence, Sarrasine is one of Balzacs earliest works published without a pseudonym and helped to establish his reputation as a serious writer and distinguished member of Parisian high society....

Ramona

Helen Hunt Jackson

Ramona (1884) is a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by her activism for the rights of Native Americans, Ramona is a story of racial discrimination, survival, and history set in California in the aftermath of the Mexican American War. Immensely popular upon publication, Ramona earned favorable c...

My Bondage, My Freedom

Frederick Douglas

"Weve railed against injustice for decade upon decade, a lifetime of struggle and progress and enlightenment that we see etched in Fredrick Douglasss mighty, leonine gaze." -Barack Obama"My Bondage and my Freedom, besides giving a fresh impulse to antislavery literature, shows upon its pages the unt...

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

"The greatest tragic writer among English novelists."-Virginia Woolf "There is no other novelist alive with the breadth of sympathy, the knowledge or the power for the creation of Jude." --H. G. Wells endering of a disturbed teenager. Jude the Obscure, the semi-autobiographical final novel from Thom...

Caesar and Cleopatra

George Bernard Shaw

When Julius Caesar arrives in Egypt and finds Cleopatra in hiding, he encourages her to return to the palace and embrace her role as queen. Shaw depicts an unlikely pair that bond over a common goal. As Roman forces invade Egypt, Julius Caesar stumbles across a young Cleopatra hiding amongst the sta...

Summer

Edith Wharton

Originally born in an impoverished community, Charitys parents sought out the most educated man in the nearby New England town to raise their daughter. After being surrendered to a lawyer named Royall, Charity was raised comfortably by Mr. Royall and his wife. However, when Mrs. Royall tragically pa...

Dead Men Tell No Tales

E W Hornbug

After optimistically traveling to Australia to participate in the gold rush, Cole decides to return home when his efforts prove to be unsuccessful. Disappointed, Cole boards the same ship he sailed to Australia on, feeling cheated that not much had changed in his life. However, as the voyage home st...