Collections

• Start here 10 books · The best known books in the library.
• Gothic and sensation 9 books · Haunted houses, hidden marriages, vampires and the things science should not do.
• Mystery and detection 5 books · Detectives, false names and crimes to be worked out.
• Adventure 11 books · Pirates, chariot races, spies and the Foreign Legion.
• Growing up 8 books · Orphans, schoolgirls and children who see more than the adults think.
• Comedy 4 books · Books to read for the fun of it.
• Read in an evening 15 books · Whole books in under four hours.
• Lives and memoirs 5 books · People telling their own stories.
• Before Victoria 4 books · Written before 1837.
• Victorian 26 books · Written between 1837 and 1900.
• Into the twentieth century 23 books · Written from 1901 on.
• The long ones 8 books · Over thirteen hours each, for a season of reading.