British Literature

Prufrock and Other Observations

T. S. Eliot

This volume gathers the modernist poetry of T. S. Eliot, whose most famous work opens with the invitation…

"My Novel" — Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The work is a sprawling domestic satire that opens in a bustling drawing‑room where Mr Caxton spins a globe…

The Letters of Robert Burns

Robert Burns

New Grub Street

George Gissing

The novel is a psychological study of the literary world of late‑Victorian London, set among a small family…

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose

Lamb, Charles; Lamb, Mary

The volume gathers the miscellaneous prose of Charles and Mary Lamb, presenting every piece the…

English and Scottish Ballads, Volume V

English and Scottish Ballads, Volume V is a scholarly compilation edited by Francis James Child, printed in…

The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits

Lewis Carroll

The work is a whimsical, eight‑part nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, catalogued under “Nonsense verses” and…

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Newcomes is a domestic satire that begins with an exuberant, almost theatrical tableau of farmyard…

Parodies of the works of English & American authors, vol. I

This volume is a nineteenth‑century anthology that gathers a wide range of comic imitations of well‑known…

Stories of Robin Hood

Bertha E. Bush

The work is a juvenile retelling of the Robin Hood legend assembled by Bertha E. Bush.

Tamburlaine the Great — Part 2

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2 continues the sweeping historical tragedy that dramatizes…

La isla del tesoro

Robert Louis Stevenson

La obra es una novela de aventuras marítimas que se inscribe dentro del género de historias de piratas y…

The World Set Free

H. G. Wells

The World Set Free is H. G. Wells’s speculative war story, written in 1913 and first published in early 1914,…

My man Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

The work is a collection of light‑hearted, English‑centric tales that revolve around the inimitable valet…

Milton's Comus

John Milton

Milton’s Comus is a short lyrical drama, first performed as a courtly masque at Ludlow Castle in September…

Oscar Wilde

Guy Thorne

The book is a scholarly appreciation of Oscar Wilde, assembled by Robert Harborough Sherard and presented in…

Renaissance literary theory and practice: Classicism in the rhetoric and poetic of Italy, France, and England 1400-1600

Charles Sears Baldwin

Charles Sears Baldwin’s posthumously published manuscript continues the scholarly trajectory begun in his…

Jungle Tales of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The story opens in the dense, sweltering heart of an African jungle, where Tarzan, a boy‑raised ape, is…

Barry Lyndon

William Makepeace Thackeray

Barry Lyndon is a satirical romance that first appeared as a serial in Fraser’s Magazine in 1844, presented…

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The work is a sprawling political novel that sets its stage in the glittering world of the 1837 Derby, using…

Ludus Coventriæ: A collection of mysteries, formerly represented at Coventry on the feast of Corpus Christi

The volume presents the Coventry Mysteries, a complete set of medieval English miracle‑plays once performed…

Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer — Complete

Walter Scott

Guy Mannering is a sprawling historical romance that weaves together inheritance, disinheritance, and the…

Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil

Frank E. Smedley