British Literature

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish

Jonathan Swift

The seventh volume of the Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.

The Real Mother Goose

The Real Mother Goose is a compendium of traditional children’s verses, presented as a single, uninterrupted…

She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night” opens with a self‑referential…

Nonsense Books

Edward Lear

The work opens with a generous encomium from the Victorian critic John Ruskin, who crowns Edward Lear’s…

Tom Brown at Rugby

Thomas Hughes

The work is a Victorian school novel that presents a moral‑focused bildungsroman set in the world of…

Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman opens with a sprawling, self‑referential address that frames the play as a…

The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2

Jonathan Swift

The work is a long, allegorical poem that opens with a courtroom scene in which shepherds and nymphs bring a…

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885

Various

Lippincott’s Magazine, November 1885, presents a sprawling courtroom drama set against the bustling backdrop…

The Heiress of Wyvern Court

Emilie Searchfield

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson

Lewis Carroll

This edition presents Lewis Carroll’s whimsical fantasy for children, a tale that begins with a very ordinary…

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard

The novel is an adventure set in Africa, narrated by the veteran hunter Allan Quatermain as he recounts his…

That scholarship boy

Emma Leslie

The novel is a school‑yard tale of early‑twentieth‑century British boarding life, centered on the arrival of…

The Battaile of Agincourt

Michael Drayton

The work is Michael Drayton’s poetic retelling of the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, presented as a long narrative…

The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad

The opening places the reader aboard a newly‑appointed captain’s ship, anchored in the Gulf of Siam at…

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

Lamb, Charles; Lamb, Mary

The volume gathers the first‑edition texts of Charles Lamb’s essays published under his pen name Elia,…

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

The volume presents a sprawling anthology of literary pastiches compiled in 1886, marketed as a “critical…

The Voyage Out

Virginia Woolf

The novel follows a young woman navigating the crowded streets of early‑twentieth‑century London, her inner…

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses is a collection of short poems that capture the everyday…

Mr. Punch's History of the Great War

Charles L. Graves

Mr. Punch’s History of the Great War is a pictorial chronicle that blends the satirical spirit of the famed…

The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal is an 18th‑century English comedy that opens with a…

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This volume presents the first half of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s complete poetical output, assembled as a…

She

H. Rider Haggard

The novel is a Victorian‑era adventure that blends fantasy, romance and a hint of speculative immortality.

The eternal moment, and other stories

E. M. Forster

The volume gathers a handful of early‑twentieth‑century short pieces by E. M.

King Lear

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Lear is a tragedy that opens amid the political machinations of Britain’s noble…