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Margaret Oliphant Oliphant (née Margaret Oliphant Wilson, 1828-1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer. Her biographical work was known for its vivacity and sympathetic touch. Interestingly, The Literary History of England from 1760 to 1825, written in 1882, includes Mrs. Radcliffe, but omits Jane Austen.

Frederick Ferdinand Moore (1877-1956) created Book Dealers' Weekly in 1925, and wrote numerous adventure novels.

Johnston McCulley (1883-1958), the creator of Zorro, authored hundreds of stories, fifty novels, and numerous screenplays for film and television. The Avenging Twins books are "written at the same level of seriousness as the sayings on a party napkin."

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was often called the American Agatha Christie. She is considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing.

Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. In 1891, Book Chat called A Ward of the Golden Gate by far the best work he has done in recent years and convincingly demonstrates his right to a prominent place not only in the front ranks of American novelists, but among the best living writers of the Anglo-Saxon world."

Allen Upward (1863-1926) was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher. In 1908, Upward self-published a book he apparently thought would be Nobel Prize material: The New Word. He shot himself in November 1926, reportedly after hearing of George Bernard Shaw's Nobel Prize award. The Club of Masks is one of his international spy series.

Leo Tolstoy (Lyof N. Tolstoi, 1828-1910) wrote works about his religious journey and beliefs that were banned in Russia. This third volume of a collection of his posthumously published works includes the 21 dialogues on the Wisdom of the Children, and fiction works The Forged Coupon, Alyoshka Gorshok, The Cause of It All, and The Devil.

Major Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard (1876-1922) was an explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter and marksman who made a significant contribution to sniping practice in the British Army during WWI. Along with his mother, Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard created fictional rogue Don Quebranta Huesos, a Spanish Robin Hood-like figure.

The Critic ( Vol. 4, No. 91, Sept. 1885) said, "The extreme unpleasantness of every page of A Prince of Darkness would prevent one from any very keen enjoyment of even the greatest ingenuity in dovetailing together murder and robbery, mystery and crime. But in point of fact there is no ingenuity in the story; the reader sees through the plot [and] hates every one of the characters."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), the Irish-born playwright, poet, and the owner of the Drury Lane Theatre. This annotated edition contains one of his most famous plays, The School for Scandal.

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a prolific English novelist, publishing 36 novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. The characters are captives in a religious environment -- sometimes orthodox, sometimes fervently fanatical -- and a couple is reunited after many wanderings and an unhappy marriage.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1903 to 1909. His tragedies include The Queen Mother, Rosamond, Chastelard, Bothwell, Mary Stuart, Locrine, The Sisters, and Marino Faliero.

Philibert, Count de Gramont (1621-1707), said that his ideal man was "a being without conscience, without principle, without religion, without a soul." His memoirs "have the merit of being true; in no other work is the reality of that profligate society of St. James's so vividly expressed; in no other contemporary memoirs is there so much wit, such grace of style, such skill in portraiture."

This novella, originally published under the title The Shadow-Line, reflects Conrad's recurring themes of the sea, moral ambiguity, and the psychological struggles of leadership. The story follows a young sea captain's first command, capturing the tension and uncertainty of his responsibility as he confronts a shipwreck, illness, and the looming presence of the supernatural. It's a powerful narrative about personal growth, inner conflict, and the burdens of command.

Antoine Gustave Droz (1832-1895), French man of letters, wrote a series of sketches dealing gaily and lightly with the intimacies of family life which was issued in book form as Monsieur, Madame et Bebe (1866) and won him immediate and great success.

Agnes Strickland (1796-1874) was an English historical writer and poet. Volume 8 of Lives of the Queens of England continues the story of Elizabeth I, "second Queen-Regnant of England and Ireland."

Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was the 1909 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Jerusalem is a novel about Swedish peasants who emigrated to the Holy Land and was her first immediate success.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and Mars adventurer John Carter. A Princess of Mars is Burroughs' first novel, predating the Tarzan series, and the first of his Barsoom series. The story is set on Mars, a dying planet with a harsh desert environment which was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell.

Jean-Baptiste Racine (1639-1699) was one of the "Big Three" French dramatists of 17th-century France along with Molière and Corneille. This volume contains Bérénice, Les Plaideurs, Bajazet, and Mithridate.

Johnston McCulley (1883-1958), the creator of Zorro, authored hundreds of stories, fifty novels, and numerous screenplays for film and television. The Demon is another masked villain -- or is he --who cloaks his identity behind a horned red hood.

Johnston McCulley (1883-1958), the creator of Zorro, authored hundreds of stories, fifty novels, and numerous screenplays for film and television. Captain Fly-by-Night is another swashbuckling hero of Spanish California.

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist. He labeled Squire Kate as an English pastoral novel.

Henry Holt (1840-1926), was a book publisher and author. He joined the publishing company of Frederick Leypoldt in 1866, which became Henry Holt and Company in 1873. Camire was first published anonymously, then republished under Holt's name.

George Chapman (1559-1634) was an English dramatist, translator, and poet, identified by some as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets. This is a facsimile edition of the 1654 printing of Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany, described as "the least unhistorical" of early plays purportedly founded on German history.

In this carefully constructed critical essay, written in 1894, Tolstoy admonishes a government that wages war by arousing patriotic fervor and a Church that supports such a government's policies. His argument-that war and patriotism have nothing in common with the Christian principles of nonviolence and nonresistance-continues to resound today.

Set in Victorian times, VICE VERSA concerns business man Paul Bultitude and his son Dick. Dick is about to leave home for a boarding school which is ruled by the cane wielding headmaster Dr. Grimstone. Bultitude, seeing his son's fear of going to the school, foolishly says that schooldays are the best years of a boy's life, and how he wished that he was the one so doing. At this point, thanks to a handy magic stone brought by an uncle from India which grants the possessor one wish, they are now on even terms. Dick, now holding the stone, is ordered by his father to turn him back into his own body, but Dick refuses, and decides instead to become his father, and so the fun begins.

Hopalong Cassidy is an iconic western cowboy hero conceived by Clarence Mulford, but immortalized in a series of films starring William Boyd from 1935-1948. A tough-talking and violent character in the print novels, Cassidy was remade into a clean-cut hero who traveled the West with his sidekicks fighting villains who took advantage of the weak. Clarence E Mulford takes you back to the beginning by relating the stories (as told to him by Red and the boys of the BAR-20) of how Buck Peters started the BAR-20 ranch. It tells of how he picked up Hopalong Cassidy, Red Connors, Skinny Thompson, and many of the other colorful characters in this famous series.

THE MYSTERY OF THE SEA was Bram Stoker's seventh novel. This follow-up to DRACULA is an adventure romance with supernatural elements, a classic example of Gothic literature. It was first published in the US in 1902 by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York and in the UK in 1902 by William Heinemann, London.The story follows young Archibald Hunter as he encounters a cryptic prophecy, an ancient cipher, and a sinister conspiracy while traveling along the Scottish coast. With love, danger, and supernatural forces at play, Hunter must solve the enigma of a lost treasure and the mysteries of the sea before it's too late.