This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.

The life of an Englishwoman from infancy to middle age, told from inside her head as it happens: a Yorkshire childhood, brothers who are given everything, a mother who must be looked after, and a mind that keeps escaping into German philosophy. Sinclair translated the idealists to keep her mother, campaigned for the vote, and went to Belgium with an ambulance corps at fifty-one; this 1919 novel is one of the first in English written wholly in stream of consciousness — she was the first to ...

Ghost stories written by a novelist who had studied philosophy and psychoanalysis, in which the dead return because something is unfinished rather than because they are angry. Sinclair coined the phrase stream of consciousness for literary use, and these stories are haunted from the inside.

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

21 Complete Works of May SinclairA Journal of Impressions in BelgiumAnne Seven And The FieldingsAudrey CravenLife and Death of Harriett FreanMary Olivier A LifeMr. Waddington of WyckSupersededThe BelfryThe Combined MazeThe CreatorsThe Divine FireThe Flaw in the CrystalThe HelpmateThe Immortal MomentThe Judgment of EveThe Return of the ProdigalThe RomanticThe Three ...

The Mahatma’s StoryJones’s KarmaHeavenThe IntercessorThe Villa Désirée

Mary Amelia St. Clair was born on the 24th August 1863 in Rock Ferry, Cheshire.Her father was a Liverpool shipowner who, after being made bankrupt, became an alcoholic and died whilst May was still a child. The family then moved to Ilford, just outside London and, after a solitary year of education, May was required to stay home and help look after her older brothers, four of whom were suffering from fatal congenital heart disease.Despite this difficult start May was determ...

“In a few short pages,” writes Francine Prose in her Introduction, “May Sinclair succeeds in rendering the oppressive weight and strength of the chains of family love.” Young Harriett Frean is taught that “behaving beautifully” is paramount, and she becomes a self-sacrificing woman whose choices prove devastating to herself and to those who love her most. An early pioneer ofstream-of-consciousness writing, Sinclair employs the technique brilliantly in this finely crafted psychologic...

Immerse yourself in the evocative world of May Sinclair’s The Tree of Heaven, a novel that delves into the intricacies of human relationships and the quest for self-discovery. This rich narrative captures the emotional landscape of its characters against the backdrop of early 20th-century life.As Sinclair’s story unfolds, you’ll be drawn into the lives of the characters as they navigate personal and social challenges. The novel offers a profound exploration...

Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 novel The Three Sisters on the Haworth moor milieu of the three literary Brontë sisters. Alice, Gwenda, and Mary Cartaret are the daughters of the Vicar of Garth, an abusive father with rigid, selfish expectations for female behavior. Hope of rescue seems to dawn in the person of an idealistic young doctor in the village, but this is no Austen romance. Desc...

In "Uncanny Stories," May Sinclair masterfully weaves a tapestry of psychological complexity and supernatural intrigue, showcasing her pioneering contributions to the modernist literary movement. Comprising a collection of tales that delve into the depths of human consciousness, these stories explore themes of identity, madness, and the inexplicable nature of reality. Written in her distinctive style'Äîmarked by vivid imagery and stream-of-consciousness narrative'ÄîSinclair invites readers...

May Sinclair was an innovator of the modern thriller fiercely admired by H.P. Lovecraft; a late Victorian who was also a precursor to Virginia Woolf. She combines the traditional ghost story with a twisted psychological approach incorporating the revelations of Freud and Einstein. Two lovers are doomed to repeat their empty affair for the rest of eternity... A female telepath is forced to face the consequences of her actions... The victim of a violent murder has the last laugh on his assai...