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A group of little people find themselves without a home in this horror fantasy classic Newly homeless, a group of fairies find themselves trying to adapt to their new life in the forest. As they dodge dangers from both without and within, optimistic Aurora...

Fall under the spell of the Beautiful Darkness, the sequel to the instant New York Times bestselling gothic fantasy, Beautiful Creatures! There were no surprises in Gatlin County. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. Ethan Wate...

A summer wedding stirs up trouble on both sides of the family in this beloved bestseller from "the queen of the summer novel" (People). The Carmichaels and the Grahams have gathered on Nantucket for a happy occasion: a wedding that will unite their two...

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 - From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor Zach Williams comes a striking and savage debut story collection that confronts parenthood, mortality, and life's broken promises. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The...

Now a major motion picture! The "deliciously intense" (USA TODAY) New York Times bestselling phenomenon follows a good girl drawn to a very bad boy... The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn't drink or swear and has the appropriate number of...

Oxford Magdalen Bridge and Tower Magdalen College from the Cherwell Oxford from Headington Hill Martyrs' Memorial and St. Giles The College Barges and Folly Bridge Fisher Row and Remains of Oxford Castle The Cottages, Worcester College Gardens Old Clarendon Building, Broad Street Christ Church...

ExeterJust as the five cities of Colchester, Lincoln, York, Gloucester, and St. Albans, stand on the sites and in some fragmentary measure bear the names of five Roman municipalities, so Isca Dumnoniorum, now Exeter, appears to have been a cantonal capital developed out of...

The DukeriesAlthough within the last twenty-five years Worksop has suffered many changes, unfortunate enough from an sthetic point of view, the Dukeries end of the principal street still suggests the comfortable market town in the neighbourhood of folk of quality. The only relic of...

Hampton CourtFor combined beauty and interestvaried beauty and historical interestthere is no place within easy reach of London, certainly no place within the suburban radius, that can compare with the stately Tudor palace which stands on the left bank of the Thames, little more...

Dickens-Land In the HTML version some of the illustrations have been moved beside the relevant section of the text. Page numbers in the List of Illustrations reflect the position of the illustration in the original text, but links link to current position of illustrations....

Bournemouth, Poole & ChristchurchThe scenery which impresses most of us is certainly that in which Nature is seen in her wild and primitive condition, telling us of growth and decay, and of the land's submission to eternal laws unchecked by the hand of man....

The Cornish RivieraThe majority of our English counties possess some special feature, some particular attraction which acts as a lodestone for tourists, in the form of a stately cathedral, striking physical beauty, or a wealth of historical or literary associations. There are large districts...

CanterburyThis little essay on a great subject is neither a guidebook nor a history, though it may, for many, be enough, for their purpose, of both. With its illustrations of ancient and famous scenes it is, let us say, a keepsake or memorial for...

The ThamesWhen the American wondered what all the fuss was about, and guessed that any one of his home rivers could swallow the Thames and never know it, the Englishman replied, he guessed it depended at which end the process began; if at the...

Windsor CastleCelebrated places make a strong and often a visual impression upon the mind before they are seen either in reality or in picture. Windsor Castle, especially from the west and at some little distance, is one of those which confirm and even augment,...

The English LakesThe luxuriance of Windermere is of course its dominant note, a quality infinitely enhanced by that noble array of mountains which from Kirkstone to Scafell trail across the northern sky beyond the broad shimmer of its waters. The upward view from various...

The New ForestIn these modern days, when towns are increasing on every side, and the new idea of garden cities threatens to swallow up what little is left us of the true country, it is good to remember that in one quiet corner of...

Dartmoor Dartmoor is a fine-sounding name, and no one would wish to displace it; yet in one sense it is a misleading and inappropriate designation of the great central Devonshire moorland. The moorland is not distinctively the moor of the Dart, any more than...

The Heart of Wessex As all the world is beginning to realize, that portion of the country immortalized by Thomas Hardy, in his great romances of rural life, lies in one of the most delectable regions of south-west England; and although, for the purpose...

The Peak DistrictIn Peakland one marvels most at the strange variety of sceneryillustrations of all English inland beauty seem to have been grouped there for mans delight. There are tender meadows, streams such as must have meandered through Arcady, fantastical hillocks, mountains that cut...