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Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the striking personal narrative of Solomon Northup in Twelve Years a Slave, this new series is a comprehensive collection...

An author who has received international critical acclaim for his exquisite prose, William Trevor saw his novel The Story of Lucy Gault short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize. Love and Summer tells the tale of Ellie Dillahan, an orphan entered into a bleak future with the man she wed. As the story unfolds, Ellie's life is thrown into tumult by a fateful encounter with another man. "What other living writer could so regularly follow his own...

Martha's Vineyard, 1898. Five years ago, Ida Russell had walked the halls of Boston's renowned Museum School, enrolling in art courses and showing a talent for watercolors. But Ida Russell is now Ida Pease, resident of Vineyard Haven, and wife to Ezra, who has become inattentive and unreliable. Ezra runs a salvage company with Mose Barstow, but he prefers their nightly card games at the pub. It comes as no surprise when Ezra leaves abruptly for another...