Starting with Austen’s early writing experience, Harman explores the swell of interest in Austen in the last decades of the nineteenth century, her emergence as a classic author in the…

Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Bronte’s life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic…

Stevenson’s classic tells the high-adventure story of David Balfour, whose uncle cheats him out of his inheritance and has him kidnapped and sold into slavery. Features a new Afterword. Revised…