British Literature

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Jemima Puddle‑Duck is a short children’s story that weaves together the everyday world of a…

Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, With a Catalogue of His Works

John Nichols

The work is a nineteenth‑century compilation by John Nichols that began as a brief memoir of the artist’s…

Bliss, and other stories

Katherine Mansfield

The volume is a collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, set in the everyday world of New Zealand…

Milton: Minor Poems

John Milton

Milton: Minor Poems gathers the early, lesser‑known verses of the seventeenth‑century poet, offering a…

English Satires

The volume presents a curated survey of English satire, spanning from the medieval pilgrim verses of William…

The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5)

This volume is the first of Francis James Child’s five‑part collection of English and Scottish popular…

The Secret House

Edgar Wallace

The Secret House is a detective‑mystery short story by Edgar Wallace, set in a bustling office building that…

Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiae"

Boethius

This volume presents Geoffrey Chaucer’s Middle‑English prose rendering of Boethius’s De Consolatione…

Othello

William Shakespeare

This work is Shakespeare’s tragic drama Othe Othello, set in Venice and revolving around the Moorish general…

Een Kerstlied in Proza

Charles Dickens

Dit is een kerstvertelling in proza, geschreven door Charles Dickens toen hij dertig was en al bekend als de…

Much Darker Days

Andrew Lang

Much Darker Days is a sprawling, self‑conscious parody that opens with a bitter narrator who, after a failed…

Mary Boyle, her book

Mary Louisa Boyle

The work is a posthumous collection of Mary Louisa Boyle’s own writings, assembled by a close family member…

The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems

James Beattie

James Beattie’s “The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius” is a single‑volume poetic work that opens with a…

The Bruce

John Barbour

John Barbour’s The Bruce is a medieval epic poem that celebrates the life and wars of Robert I, King of Scots…

Robert Browning

Edward Dowden

The work is a scholarly biography that treats Robert Browning not merely as a historical figure but as the…

Arms and the Man

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man is a satirical drama that pits the romantic myths of war against the gritty…

Wives and Daughters

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters is a domestic novel that traces the growth of young Molly Gibson from…

Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher

Charles Mills Gayley

The work is a scholarly biography that treats Francis Beaumont not merely as half of the famous…

The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift

The volume presents a scholarly edition of Jonathan Swift’s poetry, assembled by W. E. B. May in 1910.

The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 1

William Langland

The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 1, presents William Langland’s allegorical poem in a…

Daniel Deronda

George Eliot

The novel opens with a philosophic meditation on beginnings, comparing the invented start of science and…

Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1

Henry Fielding

The work is Henry Fielding’s first novel, a comic and affectionate bildungsroman that follows the adventures…

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope

The novel is a sprawling Victorian satire that opens in the cramped study of Lady Carbury, a…

Henri VI (1/3)

William Shakespeare

Cette première partie de Henri VI s’inscrit dans la trilogie historique qui porte le nom du roi d’Angleterre…