The neat ship Grosvenor is fully laden and crewed, and slowly traversing the English Channel, rea...

Edith and Bruce Ottley could not be called idyllically married. But a form of love persists betwe...

As the eighteenth century heads toward its tumultuous close, and both France and America hurtle t...

Sarah Sinquier, living with her father and mother, a cathedral canon and his wife, in a town burs...

Cuffy Mahony is a young boy in country Victoria in the late nineteenth century. He lost his fathe...

Gösta Berling is a failed parson in nineteenth century rural Sweden, too fond of pleasure and the...

In 1939, with rumours of war circulating, the poor souls who have been displaced by the Great Dep...

The Celtic Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced many fascinating...

It is the early 1950s. Lionel Spote, a young London publisher, has just discovered that he has in...

Sir Lionel Bridgemont, a wealthy young English traveller, and Lavinia Buenafè, a young well-born ...

In two brilliant collections of stories, Reginald (1904) and Reginald in Russia (1910), which spa...

Ada Boucher and Stanley Brent are young things at the time of boaters, parasols, champagne and tr...