Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft.
It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Title: Tenebrae: a novel.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION &. He wrote many different types of novels, but particularly enjoyed what he called 'macabre' novels, like The Killer and the Slain, which was dedicated to Henry James and inspired in part by his The Turn of the Screw.Title: Tenebrae: a novel.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Walpole, a distant cousin of Horace Walpole, was a hugely popular and prolific novelist whose reputation has declined immeasurably since his death in 1941. We've also secured permission to reissue Hugh Walpole's posthumous 'macabre' novel, The Killer and the Slain (1942). new editions of Francis King's Never Again (1947) and The Dark Glasses (1954), two of King's own favorites from among his novels, and which he and I discussed reissuing while we were working on our 2008 edition of his An Air that Kills. We hope to be able to announce some of these soon, although for the moment we can disclose that we'll be bringing out in the U.S. We are in negotiations with the estates of numerous 20th century authors, some whose names you've never heard and some you will certainly recognize, to bring into print a number of lost classics.
Two new 20th century titles, John Trevena's Sleeping Waters (1913) and Stephen Gilbert's The Burnaby Experiments (1952) will be published very shortly.
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