British Literature

The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 1. Poetry

George Gordon Byron

The volume presents the first half of Lord Byron’s poetical output, assembled from the 1831 six‑volume John…

A Vanished Hand

Sarah Doudney

A Vanished Hand is a Victorian‑era domestic drama that opens with a richly detailed interior scene on a March…

Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 1: Texts

Selections from Early Middle English, 1130‑1250 offers a scholarly collection of short texts drawn from a…

Mary, Mary

James Stephens

James Stephens’s “Mary, Mary” is a modestly plotted, folk‑tale‑like novel that follows the life of Mary…

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 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. 2 is a sprawling, first‑person narrative that thrusts the…

A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The novel opens with a vivid portrait of seven‑year‑old Sara Crewe, a bright, imaginative child who has just…

The Privateer's-Man, One hundred Years Ago

Frederick Marryat

Frederick Marryat’s The Privateer’s‑Man, One Hundred Years Ago is a swash‑swash historical adventure that…

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

F. Anstey

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. is a comic sketchbook that strings together a series of episodic misadventures of a…

The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson

The volume gathers Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s early verse, presenting the poems that first appeared in his 1830…

Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life. Volume 1

Samuel Lover

Handy Andy is a comic sketch of Irish village life presented as a series of episodic adventures.

The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story

Angela Brazil

The story opens in a bustling school hallway, where a nervous Gwen Gascoyne is hurriedly summoned to the…

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s novel is a didactic work that weaves love‑triangles into a vivid portrait of rural life.

The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10) Poetry - Volume 2

Alexander Pope

The second volume of Alexander Pope’s collected works presents a scholarly edition of his poetry, enriched…

The English Spy: An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life

C. M. Westmacott

The English Spy is a sprawling satirical panorama that stitches together sketches, scenes, and anecdotes from…

Tam o' the Scoots

Edgar Wallace

Tam o’ the Scoots is a first‑person war narrative that blends gritty aerial combat with a rough‑spoken…

The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9]

William Shakespeare

This volume presents the Cambridge edition of William Shakespeare’s English drama, the fourth in a nine‑part…

The Mystery of the Green Ray

William Le Queux

The Mystery of the Green Ray is a wartime adventure that begins on a lazy Bank Holiday in August 1914, when…

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Mary Wollstonecraft

This work is a polemical treatise by Mary Wollstonecraft, the eighteenth‑century British writer whose life…

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

This volume presents a nineteenth‑century compilation of literary parodies, assembled by Walter Hamilton and…

Montaigne and Shakspere

J. M. Robertson

The work is a scholarly essay that investigates the intellectual relationship between William Shakespeare and…

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1

George Gordon Byron

This volume assembles the surviving letters and journal entries of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, covering…

The Big Bow Mystery

Israel Zangwill

Israel Zangwill’s “The Big Bow Mystery” is a detective story that begins with a self‑referential preface in…

Adam Johnstone's Son

F. Marion Crawford

The novel opens with a quiet, reflective conversation between Mrs.

Holiday Tales

Florence Wilford

The story opens in a bustling household where Willie, the eldest of seven brothers, promises his mother to…