British Literature

The Wind Bloweth

Donn Byrne

Don Byrne’s The Wind Bloweth is a sprawling work of fiction that opens with a lyrical meditation on the loss…

The Man Who Knew

Edgar Wallace

The novel opens in a dim laboratory where a masked chemist conducts a pungent experiment, his work…

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

With Cochrane the Dauntless

G. A. Henty

The work is a biographical adventure novel that dramatizes the life of Thomas Cochrane, the celebrated…

Parodies of the works of English & American authors, vol. VI

The volume is a scholarly anthology of literary parodies that were originally composed in the late nineteenth…

Embarrassments

Henry James

The work is a self‑conscious piece of fiction that opens with a narrator recalling a recent commission to…

Ionica

William Johnson Cory

Ionica is a collected volume of the poetry of William Cory Johnson, a 19th‑century English scholar and…

The World Peril of 1910

George Chetwynd Griffith

The World Peril of 1910 is a speculative adventure that begins with a detailed description of a mysterious…

The Twelfth Hour

Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson’s The Twelfth Hour opens in a lavishly described drawing‑room where the young, strikingly…

The House of Souls

Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen’s “The House of Souls” is a self‑reflective essay that traces the author’s uneasy shift from a…

Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature

Irene Iddesleigh

Amanda McKittrick Ros

The work is a sprawling Victorian romance that opens with a lyrical meditation on sympathy, immediately…

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 2 (of 8)

William Wordsworth

The Princess of the School

Angela Brazil

The Princess of the School opens on a brisk December morning at Chilcombe Hall, where Miss Walters is…

New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

E. Nesbit

The story opens with the Bastable children recounting a bustling summer holiday at the Moat House, where an…

Priscilla's Spies

George A. Birmingham

The novel opens with a triumphal school‑yard celebration, where Frank Mannix, a prefect at Haileybury, is…

The Poems of Felicia Hemans

Mrs. Hemans

The volume is a comprehensive anthology of the poet Mrs. Hemans’s work, organized by theme and chronology.

The Mistress of Shenstone

Florence L. Barclay

The opening of The Mistress of Shenstone places the reader in an Edwardian drawing‑room where Lady Myra…

The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250‑1900 is a sweeping anthology that seeks to present the “best” of…

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel

John Donne

The work is a sprawling autobiographical meditation that blends personal history with theological reflection.

The Girl on the Boat

P. G. Wodehouse

The novel is a light‑hearted romp that mixes romance, sport and a touch of social satire.

Robin Redbreast: A Story for Girls

Mrs. Molesworth

Robin Redbreast is a juvenile novel set in a small English town of the nineteenth century, where the story…

In Direst Peril

David Christie Murray

In Direst Peril is a first‑person memoir that blends adventure, romance, and a touch of self‑deprecating…

Faithful Margaret: A Novel

Mrs. J. M. Simpson

Faithful Margaret is a Victorian‑era romance of duty and redemption, introduced through a dense, almost…