British Literature

The First of the English: A Novel

Archibald Clavering Gunter

The novel is a sprawling historical adventure set against the brutal flood‑swept night of early spring 1572,…

Last Words: A Final Collection of Stories

Juliana Horatia Ewing

The volume is a modest anthology of juvenile tales by Juliana Horatia Ewing, first assembled after the…

The Double Four

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Double Four is a secret‑society thriller that begins with Peter Ruff, a country gentleman who has spent…

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

This edition presents Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, a dramatic exploration of regicide and the rise of a…

The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

William Makepeace Thackeray

The second volume of William Makepeace Thackeray’s The History of Pendennis continues the comic,…

Molly Brown's Senior Days

Nell Speed

Molly Brown’s Senior Days is a juvenile‑fiction portrait of college life, set at Wellington College as the…

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty

Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge is Charles Dickens’s historical‑fiction novel that intertwines the turbulent Gordon Riots of…

The Scarlet Feather

Houghton Townley

The Scarlet Feather is a turn‑of‑the‑century New York family drama that begins inside the opulent yet cramped…

Jane Seton; or, The King's Advocate: A Scottish Historical Romance

James Grant

Grant’s “Jane Seton; or, The King’s Advocate” is a historical romance that intertwines factual Scottish…

Aladdin of London; Or, Lodestar

Max Pemberton

Aladdin of London; Or, Lodestar is a sprawling, socially charged novel set in the gritty streets of…

A Love Story

William Harvey Christie

The work opens with an elaborate portrait of the Delmé mansion, its fluted ledges and heraldic eagles,…

Ivanhoe: A Romance

Walter Scott

The work is a historical romance that moves from a self‑referential preface into a vivid recreation of…

A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2

J. M. D. Meiklejohn

A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol.

A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue

Sarah Scott

The work is an eighteenth‑century utopian novel that begins with a leisurely travel narrative.

The Angel in the House

Coventry Patmore

The Angel in the House is a long‑form Victorian poem by Coventry Patmore, published in two parts in 1854 and…

Anne of Avonlea

L. M. Montgomery

The novel continues L. M. Montgomery’s beloved Avonlea saga, placing the spirited Anne Shirley in the middle…

How It All Came Round

L. T. Meade

The novel opens in a richly appointed library where three characters, a middle‑aged father, his younger…

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a political tragedy that plunges the reader straight into the bustling streets…

The Black Abbot

Edgar Wallace

The novel opens in the vaulted library of Fossaway Manor, where the young Earl Harry Alford, a pale,…

The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story

S. R. Crockett

The Lilac Sunbonnet is a nineteenth‑century romance that opens amid the rugged scenery of Galloway, where the…

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...

George Augustus Sala

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 is a rollicking, first‑person chronicle of a self‑styled…

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton

The work is a seventeenth‑century encyclopaedia of melancholy, presented in three “Partitions” that catalogue…

Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. I.

Susanna Moodie

Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. I is a domestic novel that opens with a tense…

Making People Happy

Thompson Buchanan

The work is a stage‑like comedy set in a New York drawing‑room, where a newly married woman, Cicily Hamilton,…