Charles and Mary Lamb ; with an introduction by Susan J. Wolfson and an afterword by Sylvan Barnet. Thomas Hardy ; with an introduction by Suzanne Keen and a new afterword by Regina Barreca. Edgar Allan Poe ; with an introduction by Stephen Marlowe and an afterword by Regina Marler. edited and with an introduction by Justin Kaplan and an afterword by Debbie Macomber. Charlotte Bronte? ; with a new introduction by Adriana Trigiani and an afterword by Helen Benedict. Mark Twain ; with an introduction by Justin Kaplan and a new afterword by John Seelye. Charles Dickens ; with an introduction by Frederick Busch and a new afterword by A.N. Wilson. Louisa M. Alcott, with a new introduction by John Matteson, and an afterword by J.T.Barbarese. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ; with an introduction by Martin Malia and a new afterword by Stephen Kotkin. Helen Keller ; with an introduction by Jim Knipfel and a new afterword by Marlee Matlin.