British Literature

The Tale of Tom Kitten

Beatrix Potter

The War in the Air

H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells’s The War in the Air is a speculative war story that blends early‑twentieth‑century…

The prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope

The novel is a swash‑buckling adventure that also functions as a love story and a tale of political intrigue.

English Narrative Poems

English Narrative Poems is a compact anthology that gathers a representative sweep of the genre from the…

The Inimitable Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

The Inimitable Jeeves is a collection of witty, light‑hearted tales that centre on the idle aristocrat Bertie…

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Dorothy Wordsworth

This volume presents the surviving portions of Dorothy Wordsworth’s diaries, assembled from a range of…

The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The Coming Race is a Victorian‑era speculative adventure that blends science‑fiction, utopian vision and…

The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2

Fanny Burney

The second volume of The Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay gathers Fanny Burney’s court observations,…

Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts

John Keats

The volume presents the complete set of John Keats’s letters to Fanny Brawne, drawn from the original…

The Key to the Brontë Works The Key to Charlotte Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Jane Eyre,' and her other works.

John Malham-Dembleby

The work presented is a scholarly companion that claims to unlock the “real” Charlotte Brontë by linking…

The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

This volume presents the complete poetic output of Oliver Goldsmith, assembled as an expanded and annotated…

The Second Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The Second Jungle Book continues Rudyard Kipling’s Indian jungle saga, focusing on the harsh drought that…

Poems

W. B. Yeats

This volume gathers the poetry and dramatic work of William Butler Yeats, an Irish author whose writing…

Lord Byron as a satirist in verse

Claude Moore Fuess

Claude Moore Fuess’s dissertation‑turned‑book is a scholarly survey of George Gordon Byron’s work as a…

Naval songs and ballads

This volume assembles a series of naval ballads that trace the British navy’s story from the sixteenth…

Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners: with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on a Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris dance.

Francis Douce

This work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly companion to Shakespeare’s plays, assembled by Francis Douce.

The Princess

Alfred Tennyson

The work is a sprawling, episodic poem that blends a fête‑like procession through a park with a series of…

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith

The Vicar of Wakefield is a domestic novel that centers on the ordinary yet morally earnest life of an…

Beowulf

Beowulf is an Old English epic poem that opens with a sweeping praise of the Danes’ heroic lineage, tracing…

Armadale

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins’s Armadale opens with a self‑conscious address to readers, warning that the novel may…

The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery

John Galsworthy

The Forsyte Saga, Volume II continues John Galsworthy’s sweeping domestic saga of an English middle‑class…

The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of Ælfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I.

Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

The volume presents the first part of Ælfric’s Homilies, a collection of Anglo‑Saxon sermons that were…

Sylvie and Bruno

Lewis Carroll

The work is a whimsical fantasy that throws the reader straight into a bustling market‑square where a crowd…

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction

Henry Coppée

Henry Coppée’s work is a scholarly manual that treats English literature as a mirror of the nation’s history…