290 authors,
one library.
Every writer we publish, with a short account of the life behind the work. 579 volumes between them, each newly set in modern English and illustrated.
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7Georg Ebers
1837–1898Georg Ebers was a professional Egyptologist who turned his scholarship into fiction and reached an audience no monograph could.
10 volumes
Maria Edgeworth
1768–1849Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish novelist who helped run her father's estate in County Longford and put what she learned there into Castle Rackrent (1800), the first regional novel in Engl
2 volumes
George Eliot
1819–1880George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, who chose it to be read seriously and to shield a private life that scandalised Victorian England: she lived openly for twenty-four years wit
1 volume
Edward Sylvester Ellis
1840–1916Edward Sylvester Ellis was an Ohio schoolteacher who sold his first dime novel at twenty and never stopped, turning out hundreds under a dozen names while serving as a school principal.
1 volume
Willis George Emerson
1856–1918Willis George Emerson was an American lawyer, mining promoter and novelist from Iowa who founded a town in Wyoming and floated companies across the West.
1 volume
Augusta J. Evans
1835–1909Augusta Jane Evans was an American novelist from Alabama and one of the first women in the United States to earn a fortune by writing.
2 volumes
Christopher Evans
1847–1917Christopher Evans belongs to the late-Victorian wave of reformers who argued through fiction.
1 volume