British Literature

Privy Seal: His Last Venture

Ford Madox Ford

The work is a biographical‑fictional sketch that places the learned Magister Udal, a scholarly envoy of the…

The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 06 (of 12)

William Hazlitt

The sixth volume of William Hazlitt’s collected essays presents a single, extended meditation that opens with…

Letters to His Son, Complete On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

The work is a collection of epistolary counsel from the 18th‑century Earl of Chesterfield to his illegitimate…

A passage to India

E. M. Forster

The novel is a work of early‑20th‑century political fiction that situates its drama in the Indian town of…

Eliza

Barry Pain

Barry Pain’s Eliza is a collection of short, humor‑tinged sketches that present the domestic life of a…

Amabel Channice

Anne Douglas Sedgwick

The novel opens in the austere drawing‑room of Charlock House, where Lady Amabel Channice watches her son…

A history of English literature: A practical text-book

Edward Albert

This work is a practical textbook that sets out a comprehensive survey of English literary history, from the…

The Mythology of the British Islands An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and Romance

Charles Squire

Charles Squire’s work is a single‑volume handbook that seeks to give the English reader a compact, accessible…

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend opens on a bleak stretch of the Thames, where a rag‑haired, sun‑burnt man and his teenage…

The Hill: A Romance of Friendship

Horace Annesley Vachell

Horace Annesley Vachell’s The Hill: A Romance of Friendship is a school‑boy novel set in the world of Harrow,…

The Making of a Soul

Kathlyn Rhodes

The Making of a Soul is a turn‑of‑the‑century social drama that opens in a cramped London drawing‑room, where…

Lamia

John Keats

Lamia is a sprawling mythic poem that plunges the reader into a pre‑Romantic world of gods, nymphs and…

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The novel opens in a richly described Victorian drawing‑room where Lord Henry, cigarette‑smoke curling in…

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

The story is a comic tale of a haunted English manor bought by an outspoken American diplomat, Mr. Hiram B.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2

Sir Thomas Malory

Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace

Anna Seward

This volume is a collection of one hundred poems by Anna Seward, the great majority of which conform to the…

Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)

James Boswell

The work is the fifth volume of James Boswell’s monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, covering the Scottish…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

This volume gathers the later, often unpublished, writings of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, whose career…

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit is a sprawling Victorian novel that intertwines domestic concerns with a…

The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography

David Christie Murray

David Christie Murray’s work is an autobiographical experiment in which the author attempts to chart the…

Villette

Charlotte Brontë

The novel is an autobiographical‑style work that opens with a reflective childhood memory of visits to a…

Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim is a work of psychological fiction that probes the inner workings of honor, cowardice and…

Silas Marner

George Eliot

Silas Marner is a domestic‑fiction tale set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, where the humble craft of…

The Wonder

J. D. Beresford

The Wonder is a speculative tale that begins inside a railway carriage, where the narrator’s attention is…