Based on Woolf's brother Thoby, who died in 1906, "Jacob's Room" follows the life of a fatherless boy from his childhood to his tragic death in World War I, and remains a shining example of Woolf's genius and literary daring. Revised reissue.[...]
A collection of fourteen of the author's best-known tales of mystery and the macabre includes "The Pit and the Pendulum, "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Fall of the House of Usher," in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse. Reissue.[...]
A 20th-century classic on British society's class warfare, as seen through the eyes of three different castes. Howards End, a house in the Herefordshire countryside, is the source of conflict between these parties-and ultimately a symbol of class conflict in England.
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During the Crusades, Wilifrid, a young Saxon knight, embarks on a series of adventures to prove himself worthy of the princess Rowena, fighting the Normans and the Templars?and allied with such figures as Robin Hood and Richard the Lionheart.
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The daughter of eminent Victorian writer Sir Leslie Stephen and older sister of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell was a well-known avant-garde painter and decorator, and a central figure in the Bloomsbury group. The collection, including many of Vanessa daily letters to her children, sister, and her love[...]