From suburbia and skyscraper scrawl to the open prairies and 'local color', slum life to rural idyll: reprinting American and British literary classics.
NOT YET PRINTED March 2021 The Country of the Pointed Firs is a sequence of vignettes and sketches, short stories loosely grouped as a novel. Its setting is Dunnet Landing on …
Set in Hollywood, where West had been working for several years as a scriptwriter, this novel was published in 1939, and was West’s last published piece before his early death. …
BRITISH RETRO SERIES : BR10 C format paperback (216mm x 135mm) gatefold cover, 224pp cover design by Alexandra Andries
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz was published first in The Smart Set magazine in June, 1922; it was included later that year in his second collection of stories, …
BRITISH RETRO SERIES : BR08 C format paperback (216mm x 135mm) gatefold cover, 256pp cover design by Alexandra Andries
This novel’s story and its setting were inspired by a holiday Elizabeth von Arnim had taken on the Italian Riviera. Four women in 1920s England, each dissatisfied with their social …
Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke was a medical doctor who, after training at the bar, became in effect the first forensic scientist; Freeman described him as a “medical jurispractitioner.” He was strictly …
This book was Charlotte Mew’s first publication. It was issued in chapbook format by the Poetry Bookshop; it was issued in the United States in book form in 1921. RETRO …
NOT YET PRINTED March 2020 O. Henry’s short story technique is the gold standard of the pithy, unbelievable tale, resolved usually with an unexpected, coincidental or humorous twist. Henry turned to …
The Gallows-Humored Melody has two connected themes of music and mortality; in other words it charts a crotchet decay. The posh blurb says it “explores relationships between creation and destruction.” It is …
NOT YET PRINTED March 2020 Jack London was a great boxing fan, and loved to box himself. He wrote two novellas and several short stories about the sport. The first novella …
The author started this novel when at school, but it was published in 1905 when the author was thirty years-old. It was the second of sixteen published novels by Reid, …
Katherine Mansfield, alongside James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, shaped literary modernism by experimenting with style, subject matter and theme, and by focusing on the inner lives of …
NOT YET PRINTED January 2021 Alice Dunbar-Nelson was born in New Orleans in 1875. Her mixed-race parentage often placed her awkwardly as a social outsider to the city’s multiracial, vibrant Creole community …
This is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, published in 1925. The main character, the young and mysterious Jay Gatsby, ex- of Trinity College, Oxford, is infatuated by the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. …
The Great God Pan, although it sold well, was considered at the time of its publication to be a degenerate work. Its implicit sexual content, noted Oscar Wilde, allowed it …
Father Brown featured in 53 short stories, the last written in 1938. Chesterton based the character on a priest working in Bradford, the Right Reverend John O’Connor, who was instrumental …
Harriett Frean has been raised to become the ideal Victorian woman, able to sacrifice her own desires for the good of others. She has a tumultuous and catastrophic experience when …
Bret Harte made his name as a writer by his depiction life in the Californian Gold Rush. He romanticised a world that was nasty, brutish and very often short. His …
Three short stories are included in this volume; each story is a reflection of the imagination. The Mark on the Wall (the first published story by Woolf, 1917) is a stream …