British Literature

The Middle English Poem, Erthe Upon Erthe

The volume presents the Middle English poem Erthe upon Erthe in a scholarly edition produced by Hilda M. R.

Speeches: Literary and Social

Charles Dickens

This volume gathers a series of Charles Dickens’s public addresses, literary commentaries and…

The Well at the World's End: A Tale

William Morris

The opening of The Well at the World’s End places the reader squarely in a medieval‑styled kingdom called…

The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12)

William Hazlitt

The volume opens with a brisk, almost genealogical sketch of Hazlitt’s early life, tracing his birth in 1778…

Carry On, Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

The work is a collection of comic short stories set in the world of British high society, featuring the…

Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People

Rudyard Kipling

The work is a collection of short stories set against the backdrop of British‑occupied India, drawing on the…

Beasts and Super-Beasts

Saki

The volume gathers Saki’s witty, short‑form tales that blend everyday society with a thin veil of the…

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice is a comedy set in Renaissance Venice that weaves together themes of trade,…

Trilby

George Du Maurier

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11

A Woman is a Weather‑cocke is a short early‑seventeenth‑century comedy by Nathaniel Field, first printed in…

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

Beatrix Potter

Tales and Stories Now First Collected

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The volume gathers Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s short fiction, a set of tales originally printed in…

The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens

J. M. Barrie

The Little White Bird is an episodic adventure set in the leafy realm of Kensington Gardens, where the…

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

The novel opens on the mist‑shrouded Thames, where a small yacht carries a handful of men, Marlow, the…

Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose

This volume gathers the chief poems of Old English literature and renders them in modern English while…

Alice in Wonderland, Retold in Words of One Syllable

Carroll, Lewis; Gorham, J. C., Mrs.

This edition is a retelling of Lewis Carroll’s celebrated fantasy, reshaped by J. C. Gorham and Mrs.

Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are

William Godwin

The work is a didactic novel that doubles as a bildungsroman, set in England and populated with murderers,…

The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II

Richard Crashaw

The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II is a scholarly compilation that gathers the poet’s Latin and…

Coningsby; Or, The New Generation

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Coningsby is a mid‑nineteenth‑century political novel by Benjamin Disraeli, the future Earl of Beaconsfield.

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1

Robert Louis Stevenson

This volume gathers the surviving correspondence of Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish author best known…

The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

E. Nesbit

The novel is a lively family adventure that follows the six Bastable children as they grapple with the loss…

The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo

Thomas Nash

The work is a late‑Elizabethan bawdy poem, preserved only in manuscript copies that surface in the Bodleian…

Poems

T. S. Eliot

The volume is a sprawling collection of poems by T. S. Eliot, assembled under the single heading “POEMS.” The…

Brief Lives, Vol. 2

John Aubrey

Brief Lives, Vol. 2 is a collection of biographical sketches assembled by the 17th‑century antiquary John…