Presents further misadventures in England of the bear from Darkest Peru in which he takes a driving test, visits a Stately Home, gets a rise, and takes part in a magic act.

Vanity Fair is a story of two heroines---one humble, the other a scheming social climber---who meet in boarding school and embark on markedly different lives. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Through it all, Thackeray lampoons the shallow values of his society, reserving the most pointed barbs for the upper crust. What results is a prescient look at the dogged pursuit of wealth and...

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for...

In an account of the collision of two cultures, an English widow on a grand tour of the continent surprises her stodgy relatives by marrying a penniless Italian

Simon Serrailler is called upon to work a case in the seemingly idyllic cathedral town of Lafferton as part of a dangerous undercover operation.

When it is discovered that an aristocratic young woman has magic powers, she is sent away to school, where she joins a group of young magicians using their powers to protect England.