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Wyllard's Weird

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

A village in Cornwall is thrown into turmoil after a young girl falls from a train to her death. Was this an accident? Or murder? The mystery deepens when clues link the girl to a double homicide committed ten years earlier. Braddon's sensational novel takes us to the estates of aristocrats, the haunts of tabloid writers, the homes of Bohemian artists, and the dark alleyways of Paris. Braddon, one of Victorian England's best-selling novelists, is at the height of her powers in Wyllard's Weird. The novel shakes the foundations of 19th-century social order as it questions the sanctity of marriage and exposes the vices hidden beneath masks of gentility. First published in 1885, Wyllard's Weird has been for too long either out of print or available only in expensive facsimile editions. The novel holds an important place in literary history as it forecasts the appearance of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1886 and Sherlock Holmes in 1887.  376 pages.

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Thomas Leland's Longsword, Earl of Salisbury

In 1762, three years before Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Thomas Leland published Longsword, a medieval romance filled with mystery, dark dungeons, shipwrecks, abducted damsels, evil monks, and heartless villains. Longsword has long deserved its rightful place at the beginning of any study of Gothic literature, but until now it has been available only in expensive hardcover and facsimile editions. The Whitlock Publishing edition features an accurate first-edition text as well as an introduction, notes, bibliography and contemporary reviews that situate the work within its historical, literary, and critical contexts.

Richard Graves' The Spiritual Quixote

Edited by Nicole C. Dittrich

After losing a petty argument to the local vicar, minor English noble and twenty-something Geoffry Wildgoose reads too much Methodist literature and decides to become an itinerant preacher. Keeping his intentions secret from even his family, he recruits his working-class neighbor, Jeremiah Tugwell, and sets off on a journey to save souls and gain fame. Along the way, he meets old friends, pious converts, frivolous society types, the beautiful and sensible Miss Julia Townsend, and even the Reverends George Whitefield and John Wesley themselves! But the life of an itinerant preacher is not an easy one: Wildgoose and his intrepid companion must survive persecution, explosions, and involuntary sea voyages while trying to save mankind. Are they up to the task?

This new edition of Graves’ novel includes extensive explanatory notes, timelines of Graves’ life and publishing history, and an introduction on the novel’s literary and historical contexts.

Skilbeck's Adventures of a South African Tramp

Edited by Courtney Ashraf and Levi Bridges

Published here for the first time, The Adventures of a South African Tramp records the travels of a British adventurer as he makes his way through both the wilds and towns of South Africa in the early 1870s. A keen observer of human nature, Skilbeck documents the tensions and friendships between the African, Asian, and European inhabitants of this dynamic part of the world.