Edith Hope, a successful mature novelist, has made a fool of herself over love and is sent by her friends to a Swiss hotel to come to her senses. Instead of writing a new romance novel, she finds herself preoccupied with her fellow guests.
Presents Daniel Defoe's eighteenth-century novel about a woman born in Newgate prison who becomes an infamous prostitute and thief in both England and the American colonies.
Presents Virginia Woolf's first novel, originally published in 1915, about Rachel Vinrace, an impressionable young Englishwoman who travels to South America where she enters into a doomed love affair with an aspiring writer.
Moll Flanders, born in Newgate Prison, pursues a life of adventure that eventually leads her to a position of wealth and stature in bustling eighteenth-century London.
An illustrated edition of the classic poem, in which a British soldier recalls his experiences in the army in India and pays homage to the courage of the Indian water carrier Gunga Din.
