British Literature

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters

John Earle

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered is a collection of brief character sketches that treats…

The Missing Will

Agatha Christie

The story opens with Miss Violet Marsh, a determined young woman, seeking the help of Hercule Poirot to…

Unnatural death

Dorothy L. Sayers

Unnatural Death gathers together a series of short pieces by Dorothy L.

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World is an adventure tale that thrusts a motley crew of explorers, Professor Challenger, the…

The Plymouth Express Affair

Agatha Christie

The story opens aboard the Plymouth Express, where a nervous Lieutenant Simpson discovers a concealed…

Pen-portraits of literary women: by themselves and others, Volume 2 (of 2)

The work is a biographical portrait of Harriet Martineau, an English writer and social reformer, presented in…

The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1

Alexander Pope

The volume presents a scholarly examination of Alexander Pope’s correspondence, focusing on the tangled…

Two on a Tower

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s “Two on a Tower” unfolds as a tightly wound episode of didactic fiction, set against the…

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The work is a whimsical fantasy set among talking animals, blending gentle humor with a pastoral English…

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

The novel opens amid a chaotic coach ride, where the heavy‑handed guard and the impatient coachman jostle a…

The Journal to Stella

Jonathan Swift

The Journal to Stella is a manuscript‑style compilation of Jonathan Swift’s private correspondence, addressed…

The Hunter's Lodge Case

Agatha Christie

The Hunter’s Lodge Case is a compact detective story that places the celebrated Belgian sleuth, Hercule…

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden is a juvenile fiction that weaves together the lives of an orphaned girl, a young boy with…

Studies in Literature and History

Sir Alfred C. Lyall

The work is a scholarly survey that treats the art of English letter‑writing as a crossroads of literature,…

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Hard Times is a social‑problem novel set in an industrial England that treats its characters as data points…

The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, about 1250 A.D.

The work is a Middle‑English devotional poem that retells the biblical narratives of Genesis and Exodus in…

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record

Austen-Leigh, William; Austen-Leigh, Richard Arthur

The book is a family‑record style biography of Jane Austen, compiled by her nephews William and Richard…

An Old Man's Love

Anthony Trollope

The novel opens with a portrait of Mr Hall, a seventy‑year‑old English squire who prides himself on a life…

The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 2, 1857-1870

Charles Dickens

The second volume of Charles Dickens’s correspondence gathers letters written between 1857 and 1870, chiefly…

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.)

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight is an alliterative romance‑poem from the mid‑fourteenth century, written in…

Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II

Henry Vaughan

Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II is a scholarly edition of the poet’s later work, assembled by E.

The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1

Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1 is a work of psychological fiction that opens with an extensive portrait of…

The Fifth Queen Crowned

Ford Madox Ford

The Fifth Queen Crowned is a historical romance that continues Ford Madox Ford’s three‑part saga of Henry…

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers presents itself as a comic chronicle of a small English club and its eccentric members as…