British Literature

Tancred; Or, The New Crusade

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Benjamin Disraeli’s Tancred; Or, The New Crusade is a Victorian novel that intertwines family drama with…

The Perpetual Curate

Mrs. Oliphant

The Perpetual Curate is a domestic drama set in a modest English parish, where the evening’s conversation in…

Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog)

Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)” is a comic travel narrative that begins…

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

George Chapman

George Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois and its sequel The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois are 17th‑century English…

Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The volume is a curated selection of Cervantes Saavedra’s own sayings, proverbs and poetic excerpts,…

The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective

Louis Tracy

The Albert Gate Mystery is a detective adventure starring Reginald Brett, a barrister who doubles as a…

The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

William Shakespeare

The Tempest is presented here as the first play in the nine‑volume 1863 Cambridge edition of Shakespeare’s…

Olive: A Novel

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Olive: A Novel is a Victorian‑era domestic story that begins with the birth of its eponymous heroine, Olive…

The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 6

Gilbert Parker

The work is a historical romance set against the backdrop of the Anglo‑French War, its opening plunges the…

Daisy Ashford: Her Book

Ashford, Daisy; Ashford, Angela

This volume gathers the remaining short fiction of Daisy Ashford, the child author whose early work “The…

The Prodigal Father

J. Storer Clouston

The Prodigal Father is a Scottish‑set work of fiction by J.

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans is a historical‑fiction narrative set amid the French and…

The Bishop's Secret

Fergus Hume

The Bishop’s Secret is a Victorian‑era detective tale set amid the cloistered world of a small English…

Major Vigoureux

Arthur Quiller-Couch

The novel is a comic‑satirical portrait of a remote British garrison, set on a fictional chain of islands…

The Young Duke

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The Young Duke is a sprawling work of political and social fiction that follows the early life of George…

The Long Portage

Harold Bindloss

The Long Portage opens in the stark wilderness of British Columbia, where Vernon Lisle, a weather‑worn…

The Buccaneer: A Tale

Mrs. S. C. Hall

The Buccaneer is an adventure tale set in the mid‑seventeenth century, opening with a philosophical preface…

A World of Girls: The Story of a School

L. T. Meade

The novel opens in a bustling English boarding school setting, introducing a lively scene of a toddler’s…

Tales of Space and Time

H. G. Wells

The work is a Victorian‑era science‑fiction tale that begins inside a cramped, dust‑laden curiosity shop on…

Daisy

Susan Warner

The novel is a juvenile‑focused bildungsroman that follows Daisy’s early years, from the bright innocence of…

A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.

William Wilberforce

Wilberforce’s work is a polemical treatise aimed at the middle‑ and upper‑class Christians of…

The Raft

Coningsby Dawson

The Raft is a turn‑of‑the‑century social novel that frames its story as a study of courtship and the…

Tongues of Conscience

Robert Hichens

Tongues of Conscience is a work of fiction that dwells on the contrast between night and day, using the…

Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age

The volume presents itself as a companion to the poetical miscellanies that circulated in England at the…