In the following pages an attempt has been made to render as closely as possible into English narrative prose the libretto of Wagner's "Valkyrie". The story is one little known to English readers, and...

Colonel Fanshawe was riding slowly back to his bungalow about an hour before the sunset of a hot and brilliant day in the middle of March. He had spent a long day in the saddle, for the Commander-in-Chief...

There was a new class-room in course of construction for the first form at Helmsworth Preparatory School, and the ten senior boys, whose united ages amounted to some hundred and thirty years, were taken...

Queen Lucia is the first book in the Mapp and Lucia series. Mrs. Lucas, Lucia to her intimates, resides in the village of Riseholme, a pretty Elizabethan village in Worcestershire, where she vigorously...

La suite des truculentes aventures des "reines" de la campagne anglaise . Satire de la bourgeoisie et du snobisme anglais au lendemain de la Grande Guerre, le cycle Mapp & Lucia met en scène Lucia,...

Satire de la bourgeoisie et du snobisme anglais au lendemain de la Grande Guerre, le cycle Mapp & Lucia met en scène Lucia, une jolie quadragénaire métamorphosée en tyran culturel et arbitre des élégances...