Matilda Poliport, recently widowed, has decided to end it all. But her meticulously planned bid for graceful oblivion is foiled, and when later she foils the suicide attempt of another…

A book featuring two key events: the departure of Poppy’s thoroughly detestable lover, Edmund, into the arms of a richer woman; and the death of her father. Discovering that Poppy…

Crippled in childhood, Mary Wesley, sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, speaks of the Wesley household in first-person narrative built on the facts of her life.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

This story shares about responsibility and how to handle things when mistakes happen. The characters have jobs they love to do to help make the world beautiful. They do, however…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…