Amelia B. Edwards

The Four-Fifteen Express by Amelia B. Edwards is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: The events which I am about to relate took place between nine and ten years ago.
Sebastopol had fallen in the early Spring; the peace of Paris had been concluded since March; our commercial relations with the Russian empire were but recently renewed; and I, returning home after my first northward jo This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.