48 títulos para "Warbler Press"

The Mysterious Stranger (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Mark Twain

In The Mysterious Stranger, which was unfinished at the time of his death, Twain unleashes his sardonic, freewheeling wit to present deeply nihilistic philosophical and religious views in an audacious narrative that concludes with one of his most haunting lines. In 1590, three boys in a remote Austr...

Where Angels Fear to Tread (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

E. M. Forster

Chaperoned by her young friend Caroline Abbott, free-spirited, recently widowed Lilia Herriton journeys to the Tuscan town of Monteriano where she falls in love with Gino Carella, a dashing villager who is twelve years her junior. The couple marries before Mrs. Herriton, Lilias snobbish mother-in-la...

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles first appeared as a series of short stories in The Strand magazine from April 1901 to April 1902, marking the return of Sherlock Holmes after his apparent death in "The Final Problem" (the last story in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes). In Englands West Country, Holmes a...

Hunger (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Knut Hamsun

Hunger is Knut Hamsuns breakthrough novel about a young writers efforts to practice his craft while battling extreme poverty and loneliness. The novel, written from the perspective of a struggling writer living in the city of Christiania, near Oslo, Norway, established Hamsuns reputation as one of t...

The Thirty-Nine Steps (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

John Buchan

As war looms in Europe, Richard Hannay returns from Rhodesia to his home in London. His neighbor, an American freelance spy named Franklin Scudder, claims to know of an assassination plot to destabilize Europe. When Hannay finds Scudder dead in his flat he is drawn into a fast-paced labyrinthine adv...

The Incredulity of Father Brown (Warbler Classics)

GKChesterton

G. K. Chestertons celebrity priest-detective returns in The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), the third of five collections of short stories featuring Father Brown. The book begins with reports of Father Browns death in "The Resurrection of Father Brown" and includes the popular tales "The Curse o...

Journey to the Center of the Earth (Warbler Classics)

Jules Verne

The adventure begins when eccentric German Professor Otto Lindenbrock and his nephew Axel decipher a coded note written in runic script by a sixteenth-century Icelandic alchemist. The message sends Lindenbrock and Axel on a journey to Snæfellsjökull, Iceland, in search of an extinct volcano and a se...

The Secret of Chimneys (Warbler Classics)

Agatha Christie

Eager to leave his job as a tour guide in Zimbabwe, international vagabond Anthony Cade meets by chance an old acquaintance who offers him a small sum to dispatch a few errands in England. Ensuing events find Cade at a weekend party at Chimneys, the historic home of Lord Caterham, when a murder occu...

The Secret Adversary

Agatha Christie

The Secret Adversary introduces Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley, two young friends who form Young Adventurers Ltd. and advertise themselves as "willing to do anything. Go anywhere...no reasonable offer refused." They were the characters Christie most enjoyed. Includes a detailed biographical not...

The Hollow Needle

Maurice Leblanc

The Hollow Needle is one of Maurice Leblancs best-known novels. In it the famous gentleman-burglar and master of disguises Arsène Lupin finds himself playing an intense game of cat and mouse with the young, surprisingly apt amateur-detective Isidore Beautrelet. Old foes Detective Ganimard and the fa...

Jane Eyre (Warbler Classics)

Charlotte Brontë

One of the great literary love stories of all time, Jane Eyre is also the story of a woman who speaks her truth even when this means risking everything. The orphan Jane endures a cruel aunt, harsh schooling, and the severe limitations placed on her gender to eventually find herself in love with her...

Manhattan Transfer (Warbler Classics)

John Dos Passos

John Dos Passoss Manhattan Transfer follows the overlapping lives of four principal characters in a sweeping multi-faceted tale set to the soundtrack of the booming, rhythmic pulse of New York City in the 1920s. Peopled with wealthy professionals, struggling immigrants, actors, cab drivers, chefs, a...