H.G. Wells ; with a new introduction by Karl Kroeber and with an afterword by Isaac Asimov. H. G. Wells ; with a new introduction by Nita A. Farahany and an afterword by John L. Flynn. translated and with an introduction by Burton Raffel ; and with a new afterword by Roberta Frank. Edmund Gosse ; with an introduction by Anthony Quinn ; with an afterword by Sarah Perry. Brian Aldiss ; with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and a new afterword by Brian Aldiss. Marilyn French ; with an introduction by the author and an afterword by Susan Faludi. Jane Austen ; with an introduction by Margaret Drabble and a new afterword by Mary Balogh. With an introduction by William Boyd and an afterword by the author Willa Cather ; with an introduction by Marilyn Sides and a new afterword by Terese Svoboda. Charles Dickens ; with an introduction by Stanley Weintraub and a new afterword by Annabel Davis-Goff.