Vernon Lee: 43 books

A little while ago I told you that I wished this collection of studies to be more especially yours: so now I send it you, a bundle of proofs and of MS. , to know whether you will have it. I wish I could give you what I have written in the same complete way that a painter would give you one of his sketches;...

IT was melancholy to admit that Italy also had ceased to interest him, thought Hamlin, as he smoked his cigarette on the hillside above the Villa Arnolfini; melancholy, although, in truth, he had suspected as much throughout the journey, and, indeed, before starting. Pale, milky morning sky, deepening...

Euphorion is the name given by Goethe to the marvellous child born of the mystic marriage of Faust and Helena. Who Faust is, and who Helena, we all know. Faust, of whom no man can remember the youth or childhood, seems to have come into the world by some evil spell, already old and with the faintness...

An empirical study of imaginative responses to music.

It is the reproduction of the old book published long back (1923)

     Do you remember my telling you, one afternoon that you sat upon the hearthstool at Florence, the story of Mrs. Oke of Okehurst?     You thought it a fantastic tale, you lover of fantastic things, and urged me to write it out at once, although I protested that, in such matters, to write...

I have tried in this little volume to explain aesthetic preference, particularly as regards visible shapes, by the facts of mental science. But my explanation is addressed to readers in whom I have no right to expect a previous knowledge of psychology, particularly in its more modern developments....

An artist is hired to do a portrait of a man's wife.  But, he wonders, is this really a person, or is it an apparition?  Strange, evocative tale of romance and horror.

Have you ever felt as though someone was watching you, but when you turned around no one was there? How many times have you been unable to find something, then it later turned up in the exact place you’d searched over and over? Why does your cat act as though it’s staring at something,...

What IF time could be stopped? What IF immortality was for sale? What IF your space ship was captured and you travelers became pets of a more advanced civilization on an alien planet? What IF an alien race tried to save earth from itself? Would the people of earth cooperate? In...

Third Novel in the Netball Dreamz Series. Novel for 8-13 year old readers, but loved by all ages. Dancing. With BOYS. It has to be the worst idea ever for a grade six social! Sally’s not going. Seriously, big feet and dancing don’t mix. Besides, Sally has more important things to think...

Second Novel in the Netball Dreamz Series. Novel for 8-13 year old readers, but loved by all ages. Do you love netball? Sally and Nat do. But they hate arch rival school, Highfield Primary. They win everything and now have a star new recruit. You’ll never guess who! With the school...

Within a futuristic world, it has been several years since Andy Mars changed his name and entered what he calls his third life as a farmer on Eden, the home of the Plant God, where a series of events have led to an interplanetary war with an Empire determined to conquer all humanity. One day...