Stories from the Age of Queen Victoria

A curated anthology of 32 literary short stories and excerpts from classic novels dating to the age of Queen Victoria’s reign, 1837-1901. Mixing British and American literary greats, the book includes Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Lizzie Leigh', 1850; George Eliot's 'The Lifted Veil', 1859; Anthony Trollope's 'The Spotted Dog'. 1870; plus Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, M.R. James, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Edith Nesbit, and more. From a century of rapid industrialisation and social change, discover stories of the Gothic imagination, from the fantastic and ghostly; to the menacing, moral and surprising social exposé. Presented in a handsome hard back edition with an embossed and foil-stamped cover.

Hardback
Embossed, foil-stamped cover
24 x 15.5cm
479 pages
Originally published c.1800s-early 1900s, text reflects prevailing attitudes of the time