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A young woman named May Calthorpe has become obsessed with a novel called Love in a Cloud -- and she's taken her interest in the book one step further by striking up a correspondence with the book's anonymous author. What begins as a harmless literary crush soon snowballs into a madcap comedy of errors.

A young man is distraught over the fact that the lovely lady who has won his heart doesn't seem to return his affections. But when he turns to her uncle for advice in winning her over, the naive young lover is unwittingly ensnared in a contemptible plot.

Fans of creepy tales like W. W. Jacobs' horror classic "The Monkey's Paw" will appreciate this mid-twentieth-century update. Mark and Edith William pay a nostalgic return trip to a gift shop they visited on their honeymoon 20 years ago. But the souvenir they purchase the second time around turns out to be a lot more than they bargained for.

In this charming short story geared for younger readers, a young girl named Comfort is very proud of the gold ring that was gifted to her when she was born by her namesake Aunt Comfort. But when young Comfort takes the ring to school to show her friends, things don't turn out exactly how she had planned.

In a marked divergence from her earlier, typically fantastically imaginative works, Marie Corelli remains true to her subtitle in the novel God's Good Man: A Simple Love Story. The plot revolves around a humble clergyman who is more than content with his lot in life -- until his fate is unexpectedly intertwined with a fetching young woman from America.

Although it's hard to tell by her pen name, this popular writer of mystery novels was a woman, and she was enormously successful in her era. Miller is best known for a series of high-drama mysteries imbued with action-adventure plot twists and memorable characters. In Dainty's Cruel Rivals, a pair of...

In this moving romance, two children's lives are permanently intertwined when the impoverished newsboy Michael bravely intervenes to save a fabulously wealthy little girl named Starr Endicott. When the pair meet up later in life, sparks fly. Are they fated to be together?

Do you have a taste for the weird and macabre? Delve into this spine-tingling collection of spooky tales, expertly curated by renowned novelist Joseph Lewis French. It's the perfect accompaniment to a dark and stormy night or a storytelling session around the campfire.

Rather than consistently falling back on romance as an overarching framework for her novels, as did many of her peers, Virginia-born writer Ellen Glasgow often preferred the rough-and-tumble world of politics as a lens through which to explore the human condition. In One Man in His Time, an up-and-coming politician confounds many of the longstanding mores of Southern society.

Today, many city-dwellers regard rats as an unavoidable nuisance, but in nineteenth-century England, they were a far more dangerous and pervasive problem. This fascinating volume, penned by one of the UK's foremost rat exterminators, is a cross between a how-to manual and an autobiography. Those with an interest in the dark underbelly of Victorian life will relish this quirky page-turner.

Today, "What would Jesus do?" is a refrain commonly posed by and among Christian believers. In this classic work of theology, author John R. Macduff poses a fascinating variation on this question: what -- and how -- did Jesus think? This volume is a must-read for anyone interested in delving into Christian epistemology.

Get up close and personal with some of the heavy hitters of British history in this engaging volume of brief biographical sketches. With an emphasis on extracting moral lessons from the lives and choices of great men, British jurist James Bryce offers glimpses into the legacies of eminent figures ranging from Anthony Trollope to Lord Acton.

Though set on dry land, W. W. Jacob's charming tale "Admiral Peters" is shot through with the salty dialect and rough humor of lifelong sailors. An admiral pays a visit to one of his men, now retired, and amidst a night of revelry and nostalgia, an odd love triangle is formed. Will the two former shipmates be able to iron out their differences?

Though he is best remembered for the macabre tale "The Monkey's Paw," many of British author W. W. Jacobs' stories are about sailors and life on the sea. "Good Intentions" was originally released as part of Jacobs' 1911 collection Ship's Company.