British Literature

Anna the Adventuress

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The novel is a late‑period work by E. Phillips Oppenwell, built around the tangled identities of two sisters,…

El paraíso perdido

John Milton

Este texto es una biografía histórica que sitúa al joven John Milton en el contexto familiar y social de la…

The Golden Face: A Great 'Crook' Romance

William Le Queux

The novel opens with a terse newspaper advertisement seeking a young, well‑educated gentleman driver, and the…

How to Cook Husbands

Elizabeth Strong Worthington

The work is a domestic essay that treats marriage as a culinary art, opening with a tongue‑in‑cheek “recipe”…

The Alchemist

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist is a seventeenth‑century English comedy that opens in the bustling streets of…

A Shropshire Lad

A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad is a modestly sized collection of lyric poems that foregrounds the landscape and people of a…

To Love

Margaret Peterson

The novel is a turn‑of‑the‑century English romance that opens with a conversation between the headstrong…

The 'Mind the Paint' Girl: A Comedy in Four Acts

Arthur Wing Pinero

Arthur Wing Pinero’s “The ‘Mind the Paint’ Girl” is a four‑act comedy that opens in a meticulously described…

Keats: Poems Published in 1820

John Keats

The volume is a facsimile of the poet’s final 1820 collection, the third of three small books he issued in…

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6

George Gordon Byron

This volume presents the sixth part of Lord Byron’s monumental poem Don Juan, a sprawling satire that was…

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes 1-6. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, in six richly illustrated volumes, is a scholarly anthology that gathers the…

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss is a domestic tale set in rural England, foregrounded by a vivid description of the…

The Birthright

Joseph Hocking

The Birthright is a sprawling nineteenth‑century tale of inheritance, family rivalry and rural intrigue set…

Bristol Bells: A Story of the Eighteenth Century

Emma Marshall

The novel is a biographical fiction that weaves the youthful world of Thomas Chatterton into a richly…

Troilus and Criseyde

Geoffrey Chaucer

The work is Geoffrey Chaucer’s medieval poem Troilus and Criseyde, a long narrative that opens with a lyrical…

The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar

William Shakespeare

The New Hudson Shakespeare presents William Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius Cæsar, a drama that intertwines…

The Nicest Girl in the School: A Story of School Life

Angela Brazil

The novel is a juvenile school‑life story that follows Patty Hirst as she prepares to leave her family home…

As We Sweep Through The Deep

Gordon Stables

The novel is a Victorian‑era sea adventure aimed at younger readers, set against the backdrop of the Royal…

The Book of Dragons

E. Nesbit

The work is a whimsical short‑story collection aimed at children, centering on the absurd adventures of a…

The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan

John Bunyan

The work is a Christian allegorical narrative that begins with a long, self‑referential preface in which the…

The Daffodil Mystery

Edgar Wallace

The Daffodil Mystery is a detective tale that begins in a bustling department store, where a terse exchange…

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 (of 8)

William Wordsworth

This volume gathers the poems Wordsworth composed in 1804, a year that yielded only a handful of verses but…

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

The work is a Victorian‑era didactic tale that weaves together domestic concerns, the world of antique…

The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives

Elizabeth Strong Worthington

The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives is a satirical social commentary that unfolds as a bustling club meeting of…