British Literature

The Antiquary — Complete

Walter Scott

The Antiquary is Walter Scott’s third and final entry in a self‑described series of Scottish sketches, each…

Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume presents the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer as edited by the Rev. Walter W.

Justice

John Galsworthy

Justice is a stage‑play by John Galsworthy that opens in the cramped, timber‑lined managing clerk’s room of…

Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street

Virginia Woolf

The work is a fragmentary, stream‑of‑consciousness sketch set in early‑twentieth‑century London,…

Life of Charles Dickens

Sir Frank T. (Frank Thomas) Marzials

The work is a scholarly biography of Charles Dickens written by Frank T.

A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary Study

William Tuckwell

The work is a scholarly biography of Alexander William Kinglake, the nineteenth‑century author of “Eothen”…

Victory: An Island Tale

Joseph Conrad

The novel is a psychological adventure set in the Dutch East Indies, weaving themes of revenge, abuse, and…

The Lifted Veil

George Eliot

The work is a psychological and paranormal narrative that begins with a narrator confronting his imminent…

No Name

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins’s No Name is a Victorian psychological drama that opens in the early hours of a March morning…

Why we should read--

S. P. B. Mais

The work is a self‑conscious essay on reading, framed as a guide to the books the author has found worth…

The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 [of 2]

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The second volume of The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley gathers the writer’s later essays, translations,…

Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes

Edward Young

The work is a scholarly meditation on the evolution of English poetry from the era of George Herbert through…

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe is a first‑person adventure narrative that blends ship‑wreck survival with a detailed…

The Great War in England in 1897

William Le Queux

William Le Queux’s “The Great War in England in 1897” is a speculative military narrative that frames a…

Robert Browning

C. H. Herford

The work is a scholarly biography of Robert Browning written by C. H.

The poetry of Robert Browning

Stopford A. Brooke

This volume is a scholarly study of Robert Browning’s poetry, written by Stopford A. Brooke.

Poems

William Ernest Henley

This volume is a self‑curated anthology of William Ernest Henley’s verse, assembled at the urging of his…

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier is a domestic tale of adultery and friendship set against the genteel backdrop of…

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1

Samuel Richardson

The work is an epistolary novel that presents its story through a succession of letters, a format highlighted…

The Chronicles of Clovis

Saki

The Chronicles of Clovis gathers Saki’s short‑story satire into a single volume, opening with a reflective…

The Painted Veil

W. Somerset Maugham

The Painted Veil is a psychological novel that weaves together themes of adultery, domestic strain, and the…

The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The work is a biographical memoir of Charlotte Brontë written by Elizabeth Gaskell, whose subject headings…

William Shakespeare: A Critical Study

Georg Brandes

Georg Brandes’s work is a scholarly survey that treats Shakespeare as both a historical figure and a literary…

Tales of Unrest

Joseph Conrad

Tales of Unrest gathers five of Joseph Conrad’s early adventure tales, each a compact foray into distant…