Angharad Rees

The exquisite illustrations of Marjolein Bastin meet timeless text in this elegant special edition of an English masterpiece. Emma Woodhouse, is a beautiful, rich girl who is also spoiled, proud and blinded by her own situation in life. She begins to understand herself and life a little better when her romantic schemes - charitable good works to those around her - become entangled in tensions of class and of the heart.

Captain Ross Poldark returns to Cornwall after the American Revolution to find his homelife has fallen apart-- his estate in disarray, his love engaged to another, and his family's copper mines targeted by bitter rivals.