May Fair: being an entertainment purporting to reveal to gentlefolk the real state of affairs existing in the very heart of London during the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fifth: Together with Suitable Reflections on the Last Follies, Misadventures and Galanteries of These Charming People

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The work is a Victorian‑era blend of science‑fiction and horror, set in a fog‑shrouded London where a lawyer…

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

G. K. Chesterton

The Man Who Was Thursday is a hybrid of fantasy, detective intrigue, and philosophical allegory set against a…

Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)

Charles Dickens

The second volume of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist continues the grim bildungsroman of an orphan boy thrust…

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s tale is a sprawling historical fiction set in sixteenth‑century London, where the lives of a…

Henrietta Temple: A Love Story

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Henrietta Temple is a self‑styled autobiographical romance by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, that…

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens

This work is Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas,” a Victorian…