This collected trilogy by L. P. Hartley follows siblings Eustace and Hilda from childhood into adulthood, tracing how their bond deepens even as it turns increasingly painful. Set against the codes of upper-class life, it braids together desire, affection, and dependence in a quiet, exact style, keeping their impossible relationship at the center.

A lifelong brother-and-sister bond emerges as something they cannot escape, only endure.

This scholarly study traces the development of English natural history from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century through the lives and writings of figures such as William Turner, John Caius, Thomas Penny, John Gerard, and John Parkinson. It presents the changing view of nature as a sequence of biographies that leads from superstition and inherited lore toward the rise of modern science.

By following the lives of naturalists, the book shows how modern science took shape.