British Literature

Riders to the Sea

J. M. Synge

J. M. Synge’s one‑act tragedy “Riders to the Sea” is set in a modest cottage on Inishmaan, one of the Aran…

The Herapath Property

J. S. Fletcher

The story opens in the third week of Selwood’s brief tenure as secretary to Jacob Herapath, a well‑known…

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays

Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard, Sir

The Spectator, Volume 1 presents the first half of the celebrated eighteenth‑century periodical essays…

Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This volume is a comprehensive scholarly guide assembled by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that surveys the works of…

A Sheaf of Corn

Mary E. Mann

The work is a socially grounded narrative set in an English village, offering a slice of rural life through…

Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The work is a nineteenth‑century English novel by Edward Bulwer‑Lytton, opening with a tranquil Devonshire…

A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others

This volume gathers a selection of Christmas‑time tales, opening with an unmistakable re‑imagining of Charles…

The Madcap of the School

Angela Brazil

The Madcap of the School is a lively juvenile fiction set in an English boarding school, written by Angela…

G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study

Julius West

Julius West’s A Critical Study offers a scholarly appraisal of G. K.

The Seven Secrets

William Le Queux

The Seven Secrets is a turn‑of‑the‑century detective novel by William Le Queux, a writer whose name was…

Sea urchins

W. W. Jacobs

Sea urchins is a bawdy, episodic tale of a rag‑tag crew and a mischievous youngster thrust aboard their…

The Outcry

Henry James

The Outcry is a genteel, turn‑of‑the‑century novel that opens in the opulent drawing‑room of Dedborough…

Robert Burns

John Campbell Shairp

John Campbell Shairp’s work is a scholarly biography that traces the life of Scotland’s beloved poet Robert…

Nights in London

Thomas Burke

Thomas Burke’s Nights in London is a lyrical tribute to the city after dark, written from the perspective of…

The Angel of Terror

Edgar Wallace

The Angel of Terror is a detective‑mystery that opens in the tense atmosphere of a London courtroom, where a…

A master of craft

W. W. Jacobs

The novel is a Victorian‑era seafaring romance that opens on a quiet evening at the Wapping wharf, where a…

The Cardinal's snuff-box

Henry Harland

The work is a late‑Victorian romance set against an Italian landscape, introduced by a sweeping description…

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 17

Wilson’s Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 17 is a first‑person narrative set in the Scottish…

The Book of Brave Old Ballads

The Vision of Desire

Margaret Pedler

The Vision of Desire is a melodramatic romance that plunges the reader straight into a crisis of love and…

Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798)

Wordsworth, William; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) is a collection of experimental verse by William Wordsworth…

The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago

Arthur Conan Doyle

The volume gathers a series of short adventure and historical tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, and it opens with…

A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day

Charles Reade

The novel opens with a lavish portrait of Miss Arabella Bruce, a striking young woman whose crimson hair,…

A Simple Story

Mrs. Inchbald

A Simple Story is an eighteenth‑century English novel that concentrates on a handful of intimate…