British Literature

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway is a psychological portrait of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a middle‑aged,…

The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance

Harry Johnston

The novel is a romance set against the backdrop of British missionary and diplomatic activity in East Africa,…

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I

Aphra Behn

The first volume of Aphra Behn’s collected works presents a lively 17th‑century English drama, opening with a…

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volumes 1 and 2, gathers the young poet’s early…

From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors

Henry A. Beers

From its title and subject heading, this volume is a historical‑critical survey of English literature,…

The Zeppelin's Passenger

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a World‑War‑I era historical novel that opens with a leisurely autumn walk…

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

Walter Scott

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott is a personal diary drawn from the original manuscript kept at his Abbotsford…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The play opens on a cold night at the ramparts of Elsinore, where sentinels Francisco and Barnardo exchange…

The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love

William Le Queux

The novel is a classic spy‑mystery that begins with a tense, private meeting in a Scottish manor.

The Martian: A Novel

George Du Maurier

The work is a lively, first‑person tale that blends youthful wanderings with a hint of the extraordinary.

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Paradise Lost is an epic poem that sets out to recount the first disobedience of humanity and the ensuing…

Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon’s Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients gathers a series of early‑modern English essays that blend…

The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume brings together Geoffrey Chaucer’s celebrated Canterbury Tales and a selection of his…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is a five‑act tragedy that begins not with a narrative exposition but with a full theatrical…

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus is a work that straddles science‑fiction, horror, and…

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

P. G. Wodehouse

The volume is a collection of humorous short pieces by P. G.

The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry

George Gordon Byron

The volume gathers a selection of Byron’s later poetic fragments, epistles, and occasional verses, all drawn…

Desperate Remedies

Thomas Hardy

Desperate Remedies is a Victorian‑era romance that places a young maid, Cytherea, at the heart of a tangled…

The secret of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton

The story opens with Father Brown, the unassuming Catholic priest‑detective, interrogating a suspect in a…

The Amazing Marriage — Complete

George Meredith

George Meredith’s The Amazing Marriage is a late‑Victorian novel that opens with a densely layered scene of…

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair is a satirical novel that opens amid the bustling, self‑conscious world of Sir Pitt Crawley, a…

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto is the first full‑blown gothic novel, a horror tale that intertwines the anxieties of…

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4

George Gordon Byron

The volume gathers a series of Byron’s later poems and fragments, each opening with a solemn meditation on…

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

This work is a dramatic tragedy set in Verona, foregrounding a bitter vendetta between the Montague and…