British Literature

Good Old Anna

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Good Old Anna is a domestic novel set against the outbreak of the First World War, catalogued as World War,…

Revelations of Divine Love

of Norwich Julian

Revelations of Divine Love is a devotional work that records a series of mystical visions experienced by a…

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

William Blake

The work is a sprawling visionary essay that treats heaven and hell as complementary forces rather than fixed…

The complete works of John Gower, volume 3: The English works

John Gower

The third volume of John Gower’s complete works gathers his English poems, opening with a sprawling allegory…

The Stretton Street Affair

William Le Queux

The Stretton Street Affair is a first‑person detective narrative by William Le Queux, introduced through the…

Puck of Pook's Hill

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kip‑Keen’s Puck of Pook’s Hill opens in a bucolic English meadow where two children, Dan and Una,…

The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan

Daisy Ashford

The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena’s Plan is a whimsical, self‑conscious novel that proudly advertises its…

By Conduct and Courage: A Story of the Days of Nelson

G. A. Henty

By Conduct and Courage is a historical adventure aimed at young readers, the final entry in George A.

Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

A. C. Bradley

The work is a series of university‑level lectures by A. C.

High Noon: A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks'

High Noon continues the romantic saga begun in Three Weeks, presenting the third installment of Sir Paul…

Tatterdemalion

John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy’s Tatterdemalion is a wartime novel set in the summer of 1914, tracking a widowed…

Addie's Husband; or, Through clouds to sunshine

Mrs. Gordon Smythies

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The book is a whimsical fantasy set in an English countryside where animals speak and behave like genteel…

The Rough Road

William John Locke

The Rough Road is a First‑World War novel that follows the unlikely life of James Marmaduke “Doggie” Trevor,…

The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century

Georgette Heyer

The Black Moth is a Regency‑era romance set in eighteenth‑century England, where aristocratic intrigue and…

The Mystery of a Turkish Bath

Rita

The novel, written under the pen name Rita, belongs to the juvenile‑fiction strand of late‑nineteenth‑century…

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius

Sarah Grand

The Beth Book is a nineteenth‑century social study presented as a work of fiction, focusing on the life of…

The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton

Gilbert Frankau

The Love‑Story of Aliette Brunton is a turn‑of‑the‑century English romance that opens with a philosophical…

The Message

A. J. Dawson

The novel opens with a reflective, first‑person account of a young man’s upbringing in the English village of…

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

William Barnes

William Barnes’s Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect is a collection of verse that celebrates the…

Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 2, Part 1

The work is a continuation of the Elizabethan “Mirror for Magistrates,” a sprawling collection of moralised…

The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 3, 1836-1870

Charles Dickens

The third volume of The Letters of Charles Dickens covers the period from 1836 to 1870, gathering together…

A Man of Two Countries

Alice Harriman

A Man of Two Countries is a political‑fiction set against the rugged backdrop of Montana and the Canadian…

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

The novel is a domestic drama set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, focusing on the tangled relationships…