British Literature

Tennyson and his friends

The work is a memoir‑type recollection that opens with a personal request to recount the narrator’s early…

The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon

Thomas Hardy

The Dynasts is an expansive dramatic reconstruction of the Napoleonic Wars, written by Thomas Hardy and…

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

The work is a Shakespearean comedy that opens with a raucous backstage scene in which a lord, a pair of…

The Sorrows of Satan or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire: A Romance

Marie Corelli

The novel presents itself as a didactic romance that intertwines social critique with a supernatural twist,…

The Task, and Other Poems

William Cowper

The volume is a collection of poems by William Cowper, the eighteenth‑century English poet whose “Table Talk”…

Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticisms on His Genius and Writings; A New Chronology of His Plays; A Disquisition on the on the Object of His Sonnets; And a History of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements, Superstitions, Poetry, and Elegant Literature of His Age

Nathan Drake

The work is a scholarly compendium by Nathan Drake, M.D., published in London in 1817, that gathers…

The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

Dorothy Scarborough

Dorothy Scarborough’s work is a scholarly survey of the supernatural as it appears in modern English fiction,…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, a drama that weaves together themes of succession, murder, revenge,…

Thomas Heywood

Thomas Heywood

The volume gathers the surviving dramas of Thomas Heywood, one of the most prolific early‑modern English…

The Professor

Charlotte Brontë

The work is an early Victorian novel that positions itself as a modest, realist counter‑point to the more…

Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Charles Dickens

The work is a series of vivid sketches that turn the ordinary streets and institutions of nineteenth‑century…

Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

David Nichol Smith

This volume gathers nine eighteenth‑century essays and prefaces that trace the development of Shakespeare’s…

The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare

The Winter’s Tale unfolds as a sprawling tragicomedy that immediately thrusts the reader into a courtly world…

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2

George Gordon Byron

The second volume of Mr. Murray’s edition presents a meticulously compiled record of Lord Byron’s…

Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2

Charles Lever

The work is a sprawling, first‑person narrative set amid the Irish garrison towns of the Peninsular War era,…

The Beggar's Opera; to Which is Prefixed the Musick to Each Song

John Gay

John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera is a ballad‑opera libretto first published in the eighteenth century, and this…

The Works of John Marston. Volume 3

John Marston

The third volume of John Marston’s collected works presents a full‑length city comedy that opens with a…

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope

The volume gathers the early poetic output of Alexander Pope, the 18th‑century English poet whose life began…

The Uncommercial Traveller

Charles Dickens

The Uncommercial Traveller is a Victorian travelogue that blends observation with social commentary,…

The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes

The Golden Treasury presents itself as a carefully curated anthology of English lyrical poetry and song,…

Through East Anglia in a Motor Car

James Edmund Vincent

Vincent’s work is a practical guide for early motorists travelling through Norfolk and Suffolk, offering a…

Endymion: A Poetic Romance

John Keats

John Keats’s Endymion is a long‑form poem that sets out as a lyrical homage to Greek myth, beginning with a…

The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

The opening places the reader amid the ringing of the great bell of Beaulieu, a sound that summons monks from…

Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning

Robert Browning

The volume gathers selections from Robert Browning’s poetry and drama, opening with an extensive biographical…