Wordsworth
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
76%
Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that…
The Golden Bough
78%
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) is rightly regarded as one of the founders of modern…
Heart of Darkness and Other Stories
85%
Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many…
The Iliad
87%
The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's…
In a Glass Darkly
88%
Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations.…
The Island of Sheep
65%
In this, his final adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most…
Jude the Obscure
65%
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the…
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Stories
86%
Maggie is an astonishing novel of social realism, which parallels many of today's ills. Set in the…
Measure for Measure
97%
In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be…
Much Ado About Nothing
98%
Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The…
Nicholas Nickleby
67%
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic…
Orlando
55%
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully…
A Pair of Blue Eyes
77%
A Pair of Blue Eyes is celebrated for its central scene which shocked and stimulated Victorian…
The Plumed Serpent
88%
In this novel, symptomatic of Lawrence's later work, Kate Leslie, an Irish widow visiting Mexico,…
The Return of the Native
87%
The central figure of this novel is the returning «native», Clym Yeobright, and his love for the…
The Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti
77%
Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the…
Tales of Troy and Greece
78%
Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the…
The Trumpet-Major
87%
Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, «The Trumpet Major» is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic…
Twelfth Night
57%
The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of «Twelfth Night» have long made the play a favourite…
The Way We Live Now
67%
The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a…