england

An overview of life in early nineteenth century England which covers everything in daily life related to the settings of Jane Austen's books. The author also explores each novel individually, explaining its action, setting, reactions from critics, and Jane's personal feelings about her books.

A young English thief stumbles on, and subsequently is recruited for, a super-secret operation that trains teenagers in remote viewing and astral projection techniques in order to engage in spying.

Provides information for writers about various details of everyday life, government, war, the economy, and the society of nineteenth-century England.

Thomas Hardy's classic novel about a young woman who finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England; and contains explanatory notes and introduction.

Four new stepsiblings move from London to an out-of-the-way English village, where they discover a book--inhabited by a grouchy bookworm--that promises to make the reader a wish-granting genie.

Elizabeth I lives with the fear of exile.

The continuing adventures of the Mennyms, a family of life-size rag dolls pretending to be human, as they try to cope with a series of ardent admirers whose attentions threaten to pierce the family's veil of secrecy.