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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The novel is a juvenile fiction that follows the conduct of life of a young English boy, Cedric Errol, whose…
ReadThe Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces
Jonathan Swift
The work is a satirical essay collection that opens with a sprawling biographical sketch of Jonathan Swift,…
ReadParodies of the works of English & American authors, vol. IV
The fourth volume of this extensive collection is devoted entirely to parodies of popular songs and ballads,…
ReadAlice's Adventures Under Ground Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground is a whimsical fantasy that begins with a very ordinary garden scene, quickly…
ReadGrace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
John Bunyan
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners is John Bunyan’s autobiographical testimony, a devotional narrative…
ReadGulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
ReadThe Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook
Theodore Edward Hook
ReadThe Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale
Lady Morgan
The work is a sprawling romantic saga set against an Irish backdrop, catalogued under love stories, Irish…
Women in Love
D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love is a psychological novel that opens in the modest Brangwen household of a Midlands mining town,…
ReadPrivate Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)
Edward Gibbon
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753‑1794) Volume 2 gathers the later correspondence of the famed…
ReadThomas Dekker Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. Unexpurgated Edition
Thomas Dekker
The volume gathers the surviving dramatic works of Thomas Dekker, a playwright whose career first surfaces in…
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
This work is a Victorian ghost story that doubles as a Christmas tale, set in fog‑shrouded London and…
George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3)
George Eliot
This volume is a carefully edited compilation of George Eliot’s own letters and journal entries, arranged…
Halleck's New English Literature
Reuben Post Halleck
Halleck’s New English Literature is a comprehensive textbook that traces the development of English letters…
ReadPrivate Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)
Edward Gibbon
The volume presents the private correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the eighteenth‑century English historian…
The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories
H. G. Wells
The collection gathers H. G. Wells’s short fiction, ranging from speculative science‑fiction to whimsical…
ReadThe Rainbow
D. H. Lawrence
The novel is a domestic‑fiction set in the English Midlands, tracing the Brangwen family’s life on Marsh Farm…
ReadThe Wolfe of Badenoch: A Historical Romance of the Fourteenth Century
Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
Thomas Dick Lauder’s “The Wolfe of Badenoch” is a historical romance set in the late‑fourteenth‑century…
The Monastery
Walter Scott
The Monastery is a work of historical fiction that sets its drama amid the turbulent years of the Scottish…
ReadI. Beówulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: A Fragment.
This volume presents the Old English epic Beowulf together with the fragmentary “Fight at Finnsburh,” both…
ReadTom Brown's School Days
Thomas Hughes
The work is a Victorian school novel that begins with an expansive, almost genealogical tribute to the Brown…
A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde
The work is a stage comedy that immediately immerses the reader in a bustling country‑house drawing‑room,…
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
T. Smollett
The work is a picaresque adventure that follows the reluctant merchant Peregrine Pickle as he abandons a…
Zanoni
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Edward Bulwer‑Lytton’s Zanoni is a Victorian romance that folds occult philosophy into a narrative of love,…