Twelve British Statisticians provides a description of the lives and contributions of a dozen scientists.

Twenty-four-year-old Jane Marshall is unattractive, poor, struggling to educate herself.

A review from the PENN STATER, Sept./Oct. 1997: ". . .Braund's descriptions of his agricultural mission will interest some readers.

Abundantly Simple is a brilliantly funny response to the enormously popular and saccharine-sweet bestseller Simple Abundance.

The Debaucher, Jason Camlot's third collection of poetry, walks an oscillating lyrical tightrope between realms of cosmopolitan sophistication and ribald hilarity.

Wallace Stevens' torrid words serve as both epigraph and incantation for Adrienne Weiss's powerful debut collection.

It goes without saying that this book is to be enjoyed with a dram or two of your favorite single malt. Don't have one? Don't worry, you will.

William Dean Howells' 1885 novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham tells the story of its protagonist's materialistic aspirations; his rise from rags to riches.

Born in Exile is an 1892 novel by George Robert Gissing, a prominent realist author of late-Victorian England who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903.

The first novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton was published in 1848.

Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.

Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple became a huge seller in America from its first publication there in 1794, subsequently going through over two hundred editions.

George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, orginally published in 1860 as three volumes, tells of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up upon the River Floss.

Trilby (1894) is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula.

This first novel in Sax Rohmer's series, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu combined together previously written short stories into a single story about the dealings of this criminal mastermind.

British writer John Buchan's Greenmantle is the second of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

One of Henry James' greatest novels, The Ambassadors is a dark comedy from 1903.

Thomas Hardy's final novel Jude the Obscure explores notions of class, religion, marriage and modernization through its protagonist Jude Fawley, a working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.

Adam Bede follows the lives of a fictional rural community.

On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives.