An illustrated exploration of the ancient world looks at the cultures of Mesopotamia, the Near East, Egypt, Persia, prehistoric Europe, Greece, the Roman world, India, China, and the Americas. 25,000 first printing.

The Atlas of the Ancient World : Charting the Great Civilizations of the Past

History

Oliphant, Margaret

Ancient Civilizations

Simon&Schuster

Hester tells the story of the aging but powerful Catherine Vernon, and her conflict with the young and determined Hester, whose growing attachment to Edward, Catherine's favorite, spells disaster for all concerned. Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as head of the family bank. She thinks she sees through everyone and rules over a family of dependents with knowing cynicism. But there are two people in Redborough who resist her. One is Hester, a young relation with a personality as strong as Catherine's, and as determined to find a role for herself. The other is Edward, who Catherine treats like a son. Conflict between the young and the old is inevitable, and in its depiction of the complex relationships that develop between the three principal characters, Hester is a masterpiece of psychological realism. In exploring the difficulty of understanding human nature, it is also a compulsive story of financial and sexual risk-taking that inevitably results in a searing climax. Margaret Oliphant is one of the great Victorian novelists, and this edition re-establishes her importance.

Hester (Virago Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1870 edition by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig.

The Rector and The Doctor's Family (Virago Modern Classics)

Literary

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... calling her thoughts to her own patient whom she had left so long. She quickened her tremulous steps as Dr Rider disappeared in the darkness; but almost before she had got beyond the last echoes of the Salem meeting, that shadow of darker woe and misery than any the poor mother wist of, was again by Mrs Vincent's side. CHAPTER XXXVII. "You are not able to walk so fast," said Mrs Hilyard, coming up to the widow as she crossed over to the darker side of Grove Street, just where the house of the Miss Hemmings turned its lighted staircase-window to the street; " and it will not harm you to let me speak to you. Once you offered me your hand, and would have gone with me. It is a long long time ago-- ages since--but / remember it. I do not come after you for nothing. Let me speak. You said you were a--a minister's wife, and knew human nature," she continued, with a certain pause of reverence, and at the same time a gleam of amusement, varying for a moment the blank and breathless voice in which she had spoken. " I want your advice." Mrs Vincent, who had paused with an uncomfortable sensation of being pursued, recovered herself a little during this address. The minister's mother had no heart to linger and talk to any one at that moment, after all the excitement of the evening, with her fatigued frame and occupied mind ; but still she was the minister's mother, as ready and prepared as Arthur himself ought to have been, to hear anything that any of the flock might have to say to her, and to give all the benefit of her experience to anybody connected with Salem who might be in trouble. "I beg your pardon," said Mrs Vincent; "my daughter is ill--that is why I was making so much haste ; but I am sure, if I can be of any use to any member of--I mean...

Salem Chapel

Oliphant, Margaret W.

Unwilling to go against his principles, Frank Wentworth, the perpetual Curate of St. Rogue's, alienates Mr. Morgan, the new Rector, who will not recommend him for advancement

The Perpetual Curate

Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties. Optimistic, resourceful and blithely unimpeded by self-doubt, Lucilla is a superior being in every way, not least in relation to men. This Penguin Classics edition of Miss Marjoribanks (1865) is introduced and edited by Margaret Oliphant's acclaimed biographer Margaret Jay.

Miss Marjoribanks: Chronicles of Carlingford (Virago Modern Classics)

Phoebe Junior (Virago Modern Classics)

"She who held the reorganisation of society in Carlingford in her hands was a woman with a mission" Lucilla Marjoribanks is determined to look after her widowed father and become 'the sunshine of his life' whether he likes it or not. Once installed back at home and presiding over her father's drawing room, she launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select evening parties. Lucilla is optimistic, resourceful and completely without self-doubt, bt will her indomitable nature diminish her marriage prospects? Will she marry the wrong man to save herself from eternal spinsterhood? With its superbly flawed heroine, is Marjoribanks (1866) is a wonderfully comic depiction of the conventions and proprieties that rule a vacuous society. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics)

Dramas & Plays

Penguin Classics

Hester (Oxford World's Classics)

Oxford University Press

Best known today for her Chronicles of Carlingford series of novels, Margaret Oliphant also wrote some of the best supernatural stories in the English language. In addition to the title work, this volume contains the stories "Open Door," "Old Lady Mary," "The Land of Darkness," and "The Library Window."

A Beleaguered City and Other Stories (The ^AWorld's Classics)

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