British Literature

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8)

William Wordsworth

The fifth volume of William Wordsworth’s poetical works gathers together a series of long poems and shorter…

Lancelot of the Laik: A Scottish Metrical Romance (About 1490-1500 A. D.)

Lancelot of the Laik is a Scottish metrical romance composed around the turn of the sixteenth century,…

The women novelists

R. Brimley Johnson

The work is a scholarly survey of women’s contributions to the English novel from the Restoration through the…

A century of English essays: An anthology ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the writers of our own time

This anthology gathers short English essays that aim to capture the everyday life, manners, and countryside…

The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)

Gayley, Charles Mills; Bulfinch, Thomas

The work is a scholarly guide that links the great myths of antiquity to their treatment in English poetry…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 09

Robert Louis Stevenson

This volume gathers a miscellany of Stevenson’s essays, sketches and reflections, many of which first…

The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood A New and Complete Edition

Thomas Hood

The work is a comprehensive edition of Thomas Hood’s comic poems, assembled to showcase the breadth of his…

The life and works of Sir Charles Barry

Alfred Barry

The work is a biographical memoir of Sir Charles Barry, the eminent 19th‑century British architect, compiled…

Henri VI (2/3)

William Shakespeare

Cette pièce de Shakespeare, tirée de la trilogie sur le roi Henri VI, s’ouvre sur une scène de cour où le…

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

The work is a sprawling picaresque narrative that follows the self‑styled Moll Flanders from her birth in…

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

Beatrix Potter

Far to Seek A Romance of England and India

Maud Diver

The novel opens in a sun‑lit English country house where eight‑year‑old Roy Sinclair, the son of an English…

Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I

Various

Bentley’s Miscellany, Volume I is a Victorian‑era compendium of prose, poetry and satire assembled by the…

Rainbow Valley

L. M. Montgomery

Rainbow Valley is a historical juvenile novel set on Prince Edward Island, where the lives of orphans,…

The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II

Mrs. Russell Barrington

The volume is a meticulously compiled biography and catalogue of Frederic Baron Leighton, the eminent…

Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This volume is the first of a two‑part selection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s private correspondence,…

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage is a Victorian‑era bildungsroman that begins in a bleak, gray‑washed morning, where a…

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

William Hazlitt

The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 12, gathers the final set of essays that complete the English…

Every Man in His Humor

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour is a late‑Elizabethan comedy that opens with a brisk exposition of its…

Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London

George Augustus Sala

George Augustus Sala’s Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London is a nonfiction…

Elson Grammar School Literature, book 4

Elson, William H. (William Harris); Keck, Christine M.

Elson Grammar School Literature, Book 4 is a teacher‑oriented anthology that assembles a wide range of poems,…

Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes

Selections from Early Middle English, 1130‑1250. Part 2: Notes is a scholarly apparatus rather than a…

Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer

James Baldwin

Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer is a scholarly anthology compiled by James Baldwin,…

At the Back of the North Wind

George MacDonald

The work is a whimsical fairy‑tale narrated by an unnamed storyteller who claims to set out a different…