Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies...

Rudolph Rassendyll, an English gentleman in a foreign land, where he masquerades as his cousin, the King, to save Ruritania from the vicious Duke of Strelsau.

Inspector John Madden is back in a new tale of murder. Filled with historical detail, this novel is not only a mystery, but also a haunting portrait of the social struggles in post-World War I England and the unrest throughout Europe as Hitler begins his rise to power. It is 1932, and former Inspector John Madden has retired from Scotland Yard. He leads a quiet life in rural England with his wife and children until their idyll is shattered when Madden...