england

A retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel that describes Victor Frankenstein's meeting with the radical atheist and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at Oxford and recruiting "resurrection men" to deliver fresh bodies to secret laboratory, where the monster is created.

Provides information about daily life in nineteenth-century England, discussing the rules, regulations, and customs that governed the behavior of people in Victorian times.

Young Snyde, whose father was dismissed from St. Oswald's, an aristocratic British boys' school, returns masquerading as a teacher planning revenge.

David Powlett-Jones returns from the horrors of World War I and is assigned to teach history to boys not much younger than him who might also be sent to the trenches, but he finds that forgetting the past is not easy and decides to make a difference with those he is given to teach.

Fanny Price, a teenaged girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' countryside estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by a flirtatious, exciting--and unprincipled--London girl.

Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man raised in Edwardian England, discovers as an adult that his life is lacking, but his search for fulfillment is sidetracked by the outbreak of World War I.

A novel tracing the relationship between parents and children through several generations of the Pontifex family, a middle class English family.

A novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.

Presents a collection of fifteen short stories that feature the exploits of Father Brown, a seemingly doddering priest with a keen ability to solve crimes.

A serial killer challenges Hercule Poirot to catch him before he kills twenty-six people, beginning with Alice Ascher from Andover, one letter at a time.