British Literature

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories

Oscar Wilde

The volume gathers Oscar Wilde’s short stories, beginning with a bustling scene from “Lord Arthur Savile’s…

Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray

David Christie Murray

The work is a Victorian‑era novel that opens in the cramped, respectable offices of Mr Bommaney, a…

Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 — Notes to the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

The volume opens with a scholarly preface that sets out the editor’s purpose: to untangle the tangled history…

Cat and Dog; Or, Memoirs of Puss and the Captain

Julia Charlotte Maitland

The work is a juvenile tale that presents the world through the eyes of a well‑bred setter, who calls himself…

Fragment of a novel written by Jane Austen, January-March 1817: Now first printed from the manuscript

Jane Austen

This work is an unfinished fragment from January‑March 1817, the last draft Jane Austen was drafting before…

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

The Beast in the Jungle

Henry James

The novel is a psychological study of social interaction set against the backdrop of an opulent country house…

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 is a posthumous compilation of manuscript…

Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853)

Various

Punch’s Volume 25 (July‑December 1853) is a satirical periodical that opens with a mock‑ceremonial “forfeit”…

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend

Sir Thomas Browne

The volume brings together three of Sir Thomas Browne’s most celebrated writings, Religio Medici, a…

The Way of the World

William Congreve

William Congreve’s The Way of the World presents itself as a Restoration comedy that begins with a lengthy,…

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë

Agnes Grey is an autobiographical‑fictional account that opens with a reflective preface, in which the…

Five Children and It

E. Nesbit

Henri V

William Shakespeare

Cette œuvre est la tragédie historique d’Henri V, roi d’Angleterre, qui retrace les intrigues politiques, les…

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Joseph Conrad

The work is a sprawling sea‑faring political novel that blends the romance of sailors’ adventures with the…

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny is a short, whimsical adventure aimed at young readers, featuring the familiar…

Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

Fanny Burney

Evelina is a satirical bildungsroman that follows a young woman of modest birth as she steps from a secluded…

The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 05 (of 12)

William Hazlitt

The volume is the fifth in a twelve‑part collected edition of William Hazlitt’s writings, gathering his…

The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings

Mark Lemon

The Jest Book is a compendium of English wit, assembled by an unnamed compiler who declares his purpose to…

The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

Sullivan, Arthur; Gilbert, W. S.

The Eyes of Asia

Rudyard Kipling

The work is a first‑hand account from a veteran of the Great War, written by a former Indian soldier who…

Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers an exposition of their similarities of throught and expression, preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A.D. 1616

Henry Green

The work is a scholarly study that sets out to demonstrate how Shakespeare’s poetry and drama echo the…

The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood

The volume gathers the poetic output of Thomas Hood, the English poet whose life unfolded against a backdrop…

Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England

W. W. Greg

Greg W. W. Walter Wilson’s work is a scholarly investigation into the development of pastoral literature,…