Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The Ostler / Wilkie Collins -- The old nurse's stories / Elizabeth Gaskell -- [Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb]( / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- [Pit and the Pendulum]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- Samuel Lowgood's revenge / Mary E. Braddon -- The signalman / Charles Dickens -- Lost hearts / M. R. James -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- The judge's house / Bram Stoker -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]( / Ambrose Bierce -- The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards -- A vendetta / Guy de Maupassant -- The red room / H. G. Wells.

Saddled with Chloe Gresham, his beautiful and irresponsible young ward, Sir Hugo Lattimer, a man driven by dark memories and a tormenting despair, has no intention of caring for her--until he falls in love.

With The Doctor's Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon rewrote Flaubert's Madame Bovary, exploring the heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life. A woman with a secret, adultery, death, and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the elements which combine to make The Doctor's Wife a classic women's sensation novel. The novel is also self-consciously literary, however, and Braddon attempts to transcend the sensation genre.

An anthology of thirteen vampire stories originally published between 1871 and 1925 and written by various authors.

"Complementing Confederate Tide Rising, which covers the origins of the Maryland campaign, Taken at the Flood is a detailed account of the military campaign itself. It focuses on military policy and strategy and the context necessary to understand that strategy. A fair appraisal of the campaign requires a full appraisal of the circumstances under which the two commanders, Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan, labored. Harsh attempts to discover what they believed their responsibilities were and what they tried to accomplish; to evaluate the human and logistical resources at their disposal; and to determine what they knew and when they learned it."--BOOK JACKET.

The Christmas Hirelings is a short novel by English author Mary Elizabeth Braddon, first published in 1894. Full of vintage festive cheer, this engaging tale following the adventures of Moppet and her friends when ageing, lonely Sir John Penlyon takes the unprecedented step of opening his manor house doors to three young children over the Christmas holiday season – but can the bitter old man succeed in opening his heart as well? A charming, heart-warming tale, bringing with it a little Christmas magic, and a message of kindness and goodwill, as relevant to our modern times as when it was first published. An unmissable addition to your festive book collection.