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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Excerpt from Mice: And Other Poems Let me, then, pass over Mr Gerald Bullett's verses with the simple remark that I believe in them (he himself calls them 'mice' - no overweening title, however boldly printed. Yet mice were dear to Apollo Smintheus, and his proper emblem): and let me come to the general purpose of this Note. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgo...

George Eliot - pseudonym for Marian Evans, was a strange, contradictory character. This is her story, sympathetically and honestly told. From a quiet, lonely childhood in a small Midlands town, she went to London, and made a name for herself as editor and contributor of The Westminster Review. She lived in the home of the founder John Chapman, and fell mildly in love with him, evidence of her crying need to love and be loved. For a time she ha...

Excerpt from The Street of the Eye 'Stories of the supernatural, ' said Saunders, 'serve at least one useful purpose: they test a man's intellectual capacity. Not a very sure test, you may say, but for purposes of rough classification it is sure enough. Incertitude, a sense of imminent surprise, is after all the very salt of life. Denounce the habit of classification as bitterly as you like - and I know well the intellectual perils that atten...

Originally published in 1952, this book presents poems by the British literary figure Gerald Bullett on various 'items of village news'.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.