British Literature

Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection

Walter Savage Landor

The work is a collection of imagined dialogues and occasional verses that blend personal reminiscence with…

Peter and Wendy

J. M. Barrie

Peter and Wendy is a whimsical fantasy that opens with a troupe of mischievous boys building a tiny house for…

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume IV

Aphra Behn

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume IV is a scholarly compilation of the playwright’s late‑17th‑century English…

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott

Dit is een historische roman van Sir Walter Scott, geschreven in 1819, die zich afspeelt aan het einde van de…

English Eccentrics and Eccentricities

John Timbs

Tim John Timbs’s English Eccentrics and Eccentricities is a nineteenth‑century compendium of oddities drawn…

The Creators: A Comedy

May Sinclair

The Creators: A Comedy is a satirical drama that turns its focus on the tangled lives of writers and their…

The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Christopher Marlowe

The volume presents the third part of Christopher Marlowe’s collected works, edited by H.

Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 1 (of 2): Books I-III

Edmund Spenser

The work is an early‑modern English epic poem that sets out to present a “true text” of Edmund Spenser’s…

Tristram of Blent: An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House

Anthony Hope

The work is a Victorian‑era novel that treats the tangled affairs of inheritance, family duty and youthful…

Cautionary Tales for Children

Hilaire Belloc

Cautionary Tales for Children is a collection of moral verses aimed at youngsters between eight and fourteen,…

Utopia

More, Thomas, Saint

Thomas More’s Utopia is a sixteenth‑century political satire that begins with a detailed portrait of the…

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium‑Eater is a first‑person autobiographical essay that…

Happy Days

A. A. Milne

Happy Days is a miscellany of short pieces that blurs the line between theatrical sketch and prose vignette.

The Grell Mystery

Frank Froest

The Grell Mystery is a detective tale set against the rain‑slicked streets of early‑twentieth‑century London.

Agatha's Husband: A Novel

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Agatha’s Husband is a Victorian‑era romance that opens on a quiet Sunday in Bloomsbury Church, where the…

Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)

John Cleland

The work is an eighteenth‑century English novel that presents itself as the frank memoir of Frances Hill, a…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 01

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume opens with a rambling, first‑person account of a wayward pair of travelers, dubbed “the Cigarette”…

The Lovers Assistant; Or, New Art of Love

Henry; Ovid Fielding

The Lovers Assistant is Henry Fielding’s 1760 prose paraphrase of the first book of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria,…

Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

James Boswell

James Boswell’s Life of Johnson is an extensive biographical portrait of Samuel Johnson, the eminent…

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present is a sweeping historical essay that opens with a vivid, almost theatrical…

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

This work is a tragedy that opens on a bleak, storm‑tossed heath where three witches chant “Fair is foul, and…

The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 7 of 9]

William Shakespeare

This volume presents William Shakespeare’s celebrated tragedy Romeo and Juliet, as edited for the Cambridge…

Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Sonnets is a collection of 154 lyrical poems that explore love, beauty, time, and the poet’s…

Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume gathers four of Chaucer’s lesser‑known works, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, The…