Sovereign Press

When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spending six months of the year with each. The parents are immoral and frivolous, and they use Maisie to intensify their hatred of each other....

Alice is feeling bored while sitting on the riverbank when she notices a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch running past. She follows it down a rabbit hole falling a long way to a curious hall with many locked doors of all sizes. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity. Its narrative and structure, characters...

The first of Dickens' romances, Nicholas Nickleby is one of his most popular novels. The story follows young Nicholas who has become the head of the family after his father's death. Penniless and desperate, he turns to his uncle for help, but this only leads the family into even more of a mess....

One of the finest works by George Eliot featuring the noble Daniel Deronda who becomes entranced by frivolous beauty Gwendolen Harleth and though she shares his feelings fate conspires to keep them apart. Gwendolen, facing financial ruin, is forced into an oppressive marriage with the sinister but wealthy aristocrat Henleigh Grandcourt and Daniel...

The Autobiography of a HorseAn autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty. Beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and...

The Golden Bowl is a complex, intense study of marriage and adultery. It xplores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses. We follow prince Amerigo, an impoverished but charismatic Italian nobleman, is in London for his marriage to Maggie Verver, only child of the widower Adam Verver, the...