Harvest book

Brings together a cast of romantic characters, a pirate and a miracle worker, a farm boy and a beautiful maiden, a Spanish swordsman bent on revenge and an evil prince in an epic and sometimes humorous struggle of good against evil, and love against hate.

Presents English translations of two plays by seventeenth-century French playwright Moli?re, including "The Misanthrope," the story of a man who loves a woman who is the embodiement of all that he abhors; and "Tartuffe," which tells of a wealthy, middle-aged bigot who is conned by Tartuffe into handing over his fortune and his daughter.

Examines the popular image of pirates in modern times and compares it with the real world of pirates, who were more often murderers and thieves than romantic heros.

Analyzes the subject of plagiarism and how it affected the reputations of artists and authors beginning in the seventeenth century including those such as Samuel Coleridge, Victorian novelist Charles Reade, as well as cases involving publishing, academia, Hollywood, and the Internet.

The last novel written by English author Virginia Woolf, telling of the undercurrents swirling behind the scenes of the annual pageant at Pointz Hall, especially among unhappy Isa Oliver, her handsome husband Giles, and Mrs. Manresa, a guest who is pursuing him.

One evening in an outdoor Lahore cafe, a bearded Pakistani man called Changez, tells a nervous American stranger about his love affair with America.

Chronicles the life of England's Queen Victoria, describing her childhood, her marriage to Prince Albert, and the effects her long reign had on British and world history and culture.

Anthony Piers, a member of the New British South Polar Expedition, discovers the truth of what happened to Sir Eugene Stewart's expedition over sixty years before.

A selection of essays, sketches, and short stories by English author Virginia Woolf, originally published in 1942, the year after her death.

Iris Lockhart is shocked when she receives a phone call informing her that her great-aunt Esme, whom Iris never knew about, is being released from the mental hospital where she has spent the last sixty-one years, and wonders what long-buried family secrets the woman will bring with her when Iris takes her in.