British Literature

The Arbiter: A Novel

Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell

The novel presents a Victorian tableau of upper‑class domestic life, filtered through the concerns of Lady…

Alroy: The Prince of the Captivity

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The work is a sprawling historical romance set amid the waning Seljuk Empire of the mid‑twelfth century.

The island of Doctor Moreau

H. G. Wells

The work is a Victorian‑era science‑fiction narrative that begins with a frantic, newspaper‑style report of a…

A Young Mutineer

L. T. Meade

The work is a juvenile‑fiction story set in a sleepy English village, opening with a bustling church choir…

North and South

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The novel opens in a genteel London drawing‑room, where Margaret watches her cousin Edith drift asleep on a…

Love and Lucy

Maurice Hewlett

Love and Lucy is a Victorian‑era romance that opens with a philosophic meditation on the hidden “winged…

The Ghost Girl

H. De Vere Stacpoole

The Ghost Girl is a Southern‑style love story set against the backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, and the…

The Opal Serpent

Fergus Hume

The Opal Serpent is a late‑Victorian detective‑mystery that begins with a domestic clash in the modest Essex…

When Patty Went to College

Jean Webster

When Jean Webster’s When Patty Went to College opens, the reader is dropped into a bustling dormitory scene…

The Vampyre; a Tale

John William Polidori

The work is a Gothic horror tale that begins with a long, rambling travelogue through the lakeside region of…

Jack O' Judgment

Edgar Wallace

Jack O’ Judgment is a detective‑mystery that opens with a tangled web of intrigue surrounding “Snow” Gregory,…

The Dark Tower

Phyllis Bottome

The Dark Tower is a sprawling family saga set against the backdrop of the First World War and its aftermath,…

Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde

This volume gathers Oscar Wilde’s poetic output from the early 1880s through the late 1890s, presenting the…

The Hero

W. Somerset Maugham

The work is a narrative set in the aftermath of the South African War, focusing on the domestic life of…

Modern British Poetry

This volume is a broad anthology that gathers poems and excerpts from a wide range of late‑Victorian and…

William Shakespeare

John Masefield

The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9]

William Shakespeare

The volume presents the Cambridge Edition of Shakespeare’s “Tragicall Historie of HAMLET, Prince of…

The House with the Green Shutters

George Douglas Brown

The House with the Green Shutters is a nineteenth‑century Scottish social novel that opens on a bright summer…

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley

Louis Tracy

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley is a detective‑mystery framed by a vivid early‑twentieth‑century English…

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is a swash‑swash sea story that begins in the modest “Admiral…

Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'

Charles Edward Pearce

Madame Flirt is a sprawling, theatrical romance that plunges the reader into the raucous streets of…

Molly Bawn

Duchess

Molly Bawn is a light‑hearted domestic comedy set in a country house where a group of relatives and servants…

Nell, of Shorne Mills: or, One heart's burden

Charles Garvice

The novel is a brisk, melodramatic love story typical of late‑Victorian dime fiction.

Browning's Heroines

Ethel Colburn Mayne

The work is a scholarly essay that treats Robert Browning’s female characters as a distinct field of study.