From suburbia and skyscraper scrawl to the open prairies and 'local color', slum life to rural idyll: reprinting American and British literary classics.
This volume contains two short stories. The Monkey’s Paw, published in 1902, is one of the classic stories of the macabre. His writing career took time to gain momentum, and …
Bunner, not known in the U.K., is a great example of American nineteenth century humour; Bunner was a successful editor of Puck, the American equivalent to Punch. His poetry is dull …
Five stories from two of Tarkington’s short story collections – from In the Arena, published in 1905, inspired by his brief spell as a politician in Indiana, and from The Fascinating …
This story was based on Crane’s own experience in early 1897; it was published in Scribner’s Magazine later that same year. Crane, sailing to Cuba, was shipwrecked and sailed to …
This story is from Violet Hunt’s first collection of tales of the supernatural, Tales of the Uneasy, published in 1911. More Tales of the Uneasy followed in 1925. These two volumes are …
Seven short stories are included in this volume. Two tales of the supernatural from 1903, and five stories from her earlier work set in New England, domestic tales from the …
This book was published in 1913. It was Mayor’s second novel, and the only one of the four she wrote that was generally well received. Its heroine, Henrietta Symons, is the …
NOT YET PRINTED March 2020 AMERICAN RETRO : AR08 C format paperback (216mm x 135mm) gatefold cover. 224pp cover design by Alexandra Andries
E. M. Delafield’s pastiche of her own experience working in the Home Front in a munitions factory during the First World War. It is an early novel, published in 1918, …
First published in 1892 in The New England Magazine, The Yellow Wallpaper is a seminal piece of feminist writing, a story that consists of journal entries of a physician’s wife who, …
Included in this volume are two of Wells’ stories that reflect on science both included in his short story collection. The Star is apocalyptic, and tells of the world’s reactions to …
A coptic bound book with ABP endpapers, stitched by Lucie Forejtova of Immaginacija – a brilliant artisan brand of bespoke stationery designed for every day use rather than as the fodder …
This epistolary novel, one of the greatest sporting and comic fictional pieces of writing of the last century, was written for The Saturday Evening Post in 1914. Jack Keefe, a small-town, …