The house on the marsh: A romance

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Charlotte Brontë

The work is an autobiographical‑style novel that follows the early life of an orphaned girl in England,…

The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End

Henry James

The work is a late‑nineteenth‑century English novel that blends domestic drama with a subtle undercurrent of…

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

The opening places us in a cramped Victorian drawing‑room where a group of acquaintances huddle around a…

Explorers of the Dawn

Mazo De la Roche

The work is a domestic comedy that follows three brothers, Angel, the self‑styled “Seraph,” and the narrator,…

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë

Agnes Grey is an autobiographical‑fictional account that opens with a reflective preface, in which the…

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu