British Literature

The Spectator, Volume 2.

Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard, Sir

The Spectator, Volume 2 is a collection of eighteenth‑century English essays by Joseph Addison and Sir…

Helen Vardon's confession

R. Austin Freeman

Helen Vardon’s confession is a Victorian‑era detective mystery that opens with a reflective, almost…

The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays

Lady W. B. (William Butler); Gregory Yeats

The volume gathers three one‑act dramas that emerged from the early twentieth‑century Irish theatre scene,…

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2

Jonathan Swift

This volume gathers Jonathan Swift’s polemical writings on the Sacramental Test, a contentious clause that…

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare

Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

The book is a scholarly reference that catalogues every plant, flower and garden element that appears in…

Waiting for Daylight

H. M. Tomlinson

Waiting for Daylight is a first‑person wartime narrative that blends memoir, essay and a touch of literary…

Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599-1609

Bernard Beckerman

Bernard Beckerman’s scholarly work is a detailed study of the Globe playhouse during its most vibrant decade,…

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2

Alexander Pope

The volume gathers the poetical output of Alexander Pope, the eighteenth‑century English verse‑craftsman…

An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires

Alexander Pope

This volume gathers Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Man,” his “Moral Essays,” and his “Satires,” a three‑part…

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

The play opens in the bustling streets of Venice, where friends Solanio and Salarino tease the melancholy…

Two Daring Young Patriots; or, Outwitting the Huns

W. P. Shervill

The work is a juvenile adventure set against the backdrop of a World‑I era school in Belgium, where the drama…

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

The volume is a scholarly compilation of nineteenth‑century parodies that target the poems of Thomas Gray,…

A Journal of the Plague Year Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London

Daniel Defoe

A Journal of the Plague Year is Daniel De Foe’s quasi‑historical account of the 1665 epidemic that swept…

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin Abbott

The work is a speculative narrative that pretends to be the memoirs of a Flatland inhabitant, a…

The best British short stories of 1922

This volume gathers the most distinguished British short stories published between July 1922 and June 1923,…

Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens

The novel is a Victorian domestic drama that centres on the Dombey family’s commercial empire and the fraught…

Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2

Joseph Grego

Rowlandson the Caricaturist, Volume 2 is a reference work that gathers the titles of Thomas Rowlandson’s…

The Waste Land

T. S. Eliot

The work is a modernist collage of poetry and prose, presented as a single, sprawling composition that defies…

Lady Windermere's Fan

Oscar Wilde

The piece is a stage drama that opens with Lady Windermere and Lord Darlington engaged in a sharp, witty…

The Crofton Boys

Harriet Martineau

The Crofton Boys is a school‑yard tale aimed at young readers, set in a bustling London neighbourhood where…

Idylls of the King

Alfred Tennyson

The work is Alfred, Baron Tennyson’s poetic retelling of the Arthurian saga, beginning with a bleak portrait…

The Last Man

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The work is a speculative narrative that blends nineteenth‑century travelogue with a vision of a future…

Tutors' Lane

W. S. Lewis

Tutors’ Lane is a campus‑set romance that follows Tom Reynolds, a newly appointed English instructor at the…

The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition

Robert Browning

The Cambridge Edition presents the complete poetic and dramatic output of Robert Browning in a single,…