British Literature

John Lyly

John Dover Wilson

This work is a scholarly study of John Lyly, presented as the first attempt to treat the whole range of…

Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

The volume is a collected anthology of the political and satirical verse that appeared in the short‑lived…

Shirley

Charlotte Brontë

The work is a historical fiction set in early‑nineteenth‑century Yorkshire, where the lives of three young…

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1

Jonathan Swift

The volume gathers Jonathan Swift’s religious tracts, sermons, and letters, presenting his polemical…

Volpone; Or, The Fox

Ben Jonson

Volpone; Or, The Fox is a 17th‑century English comedy that blends sharp satire with the conventions of…

The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant

Francis Asbury Smith

This work is a scholarly pamphlet that treats the long‑running controversy over William Shakespeare’s…

English Fairy Tales

This volume presents a curated selection of English folk narratives, drawn from a broader corpus of roughly…

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 7 (of 8)

William Wordsworth

Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book"

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang’s Prince Prigio is a whimsical fairy‑tale framed as the “Own Fairy Book” of a self‑conscious…

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The work is a historical romance that places the dramatic events surrounding the last Saxon monarch at the…

Frances Kane's Fortune

L. T. Meade

Frances Kane’s Fortune is a short‑story collection centered on a young woman’s practical life in a rural…

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., and His Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, Through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life (1821)

Badcock, John, active 1816-1830; Egan, Pierce

Dracula's Guest

Bram Stoker

Dracula’s Guest is a modest volume of short fiction assembled by Bram Stoker’s widow after his death,…

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

The play opens with the melancholy Duke Orsino, who muses that music might be “the food of love,” then…

An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband opens in a glittering London drawing‑room where society’s glitterati mingle…

Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus is a satirical, didactic work that masquerades as the “Life and Opinions of…

The Willows

Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows is a short horror tale that begins with a vivid, almost cinematic…

Mrs. Warren's Profession

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession is a stage drama that confronts the gritty realities of working‑class…

The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe

The Jew of Malta is a Jacobean tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, first performed before the king and queen at…

The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham

The novel is a psychological portrait set in England and the exotic islands of Tahiti, tracing the life of…

Reviews

Oscar Wilde

The volume is a curated collection of Oscar Wilde’s contemporary reviews and essays, assembled by an editor…

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

George MacDonald

George MacDonald’s Phantastes presents itself as a “faerie romance” that invites both men and women into a…

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia is an 18th‑century satirical fable that frames a philosophical…

Folk-lore of Shakespeare

T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

This work is a scholarly survey of the folklore that underlies Shakespeare’s drama.