"When you've finished one of Rosmunde Pilcher's novels, you're ready for another." -- "The New York Times."

Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this involving story tells of an extraordinary young

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows,

Two of Rosamunde Pilcher’s most heartfelt novels reveal the sanctity of second chances and the irresistible pull of the past.

The Empty House
At twenty-seven, Virginia has been through more than

In the late 1800s, Fred Neville is a young officer in the Hussars and falls heir to an earldom. But before taking up his responsibilities, he spends a year in Ireland where his regiment is posted.

'You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.'

John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor Harding but he is a

One of the most celebrated and prolific authors of the Victorian era, Anthony Trollope (1815-82) requested that his autobiography be published posthumously. The two-volume work, first published in

Can You Forgive Her? initiates the series of six Palliser novels in which Anthony Trollope reached the height of his literary powers.

Here we are asked to pardon Alice Vavasour her 'offence against

THE DUKE'S CHILDREN, PUBLISHED IN 1880, IS THE LAST BOOK IN THE PALLISER SERIES. AS WITH THE OTHER VOLUMES WHICH MAKE UP THE PALLISER NOVELS, THIS NOVEL IS AS MUCH ABOUT THE LIVELY SOCIAL SCENE OF

Rachel Ray offers a masterly and entertaining evocation of a small community living its life in mid-nineteenth-century England. The novel first appeared in 1863, a year in which public reaction

Despite his mysterious antecedents, an unscrupulous financial speculator, Ferdinand Lopez, aspires to marry into respectability and wealth and join the ranks of British society. One of the nineteenth

'She had resolved to trust in everything, and, having so trusted, she would not provide for herself any possibility of retreat.'

Lively and attractive, Lily Dale lives with her mother and sister at

Jane Eyre is the story of a small, plain-faced, intelligent, and passionate English orphan. Jane is abused by her aunt and cousin and then attends a harsh charity school. Through it all she remains

Charlotte Brontë's final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence.

Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe

This Norton Critical Edition includes:
-The third-edition text (1848), the last corrected by Charlotte Brontë, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory footnotes.
-"Contexts,"