Our Village

A stage-coach has passed through the village, and no one can say when it will return: perhaps in a month, perhaps in a fortnight—or whenever it pleases.

In a Berkshire hamlet of winding lanes, cottage gardens and passing carts, Mary Russell Mitford invites us to walk uphill with her and meet the neighbors. There is the retired publican, restless in his idleness and proud of his blazing illumination, and the shoemaker who scarcely looks up from his last. Mitford’s eye catches every eccentricity, but her affection makes this small world feel wonderfully alive: its people are as familiar as the flowers along the road. What might the next cottage—and its curious inhabitant—reveal?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.