British Literature

Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers."

George Colman

Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse is a self‑conscious, miscellany‑style work that…

Adam Bede

George Eliot

George Eliot’s opening places the reader in a bustling rural workshop on a summer day in 1799, introducing a…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read

John Bunyan

The work is a Christian allegory aimed at both adults and children, though the original text contains…

Lilith: A Romance

George MacDonald

George MacDonald’s Lilith: A Romance opens with a lyrical wander through a sun‑drenched pine wood on…

The Red Room

H. G. Wells

The piece is a short‑story by H. G. Wells that begins in a dimly lit, ancient house where three decrepit…

Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field

Walter Scott

Walter Scott’s “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field” is a long‑form narrative poem that intertwines the romance…

Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman is an unfinished autobiographical‑fiction piece by Mary Wollstonecraft,…

Rob Roy — Complete

Walter Scott

The work is a sprawling historical novel that frames the legend of Rob Roy within the turbulent world of…

Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit is a sprawling satire that targets the pretensions of English society, the cruelty of…

The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

Laurence Sterne

The work is an experimental, self‑referential narrative that treats the life and opinions of Tristram Shandy…

The Tatler, Volume 1

Steele, Richard, Sir; Addison, Joseph

The Tatler, Volume 1 gathers the first eighty‑four numbers of the short‑lived but influential early‑…

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)

Henry Carey

This work is a pair of eighteenth‑century satirical pamphlets, A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) and…

The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete

George Eliot

The volume gathers George Eliot’s critical and translational pieces, beginning with a concise survey of her…

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra is a dramatic tragedy that intertwines the political machinations…

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s “Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero‑Worship, and the Heroic in History” is a singular work…

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)

Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

The work is a biographical memoir of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, compiled by his…

Life of John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics and After-Fame

Sidney Colvin

Sidney Colvin’s work is a scholarly biography that seeks to unite the fragmented studies of John Keats into a…

Mathilda

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The work is a short, highly personal novella by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, written in the summer of 1819…

The letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846

Browning, Robert; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

This volume presents the early correspondence between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, covering the…

A Defence of Poesie and Poems

Philip Sidney

This work is Philip Sidney’s “Defence of Poesie,” a short but vigorous piece of literary criticism written in…

The Spanish Tragedie

Thomas Kyd

The Spanish Tragedie is a late‑Elizabethan revenge drama by Thomas Kyd, printed before 1618 and presented…

A Cathedral Courtship

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

A Cathedral Courtship is a light‑hearted turn‑of‑the‑century romance that follows the American young woman…

Erewhon; Or, Over the Range

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler’s “Erewhon; Or, Over the Range” is a satirical work that folds together speculative philosophy…