Wordsworth
Four Late Plays
57%
The Shakespeare comedies collected in this text are frequently known as «the romances». It is…
The Golden Bowl
87%
Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The…
Henry V
86%
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic…
The Holy Qur'an
87%
The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose…
Love Poems
77%
The Roman poet Ovid (43BC-17AD) gives an ironic and parodic twist to love poetry in his highly…
The Merchant of Venice
77%
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deeply…
Oliver Twist
95%
Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was…
The Peninsular War
59%
The Peninsular War was a war of contrasts; a war fought in the icy passes of the high Pyrenees and…
The Plays
79%
The plays collected in this text provide the reader with a clear picture of Marlowe as a radical…
The Selected Poems of William Blake
78%
William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most…
The Waves
57%
'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, «The…
The Well-Beloved
58%
»The Well-Beloved» completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of…
De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
55%
This title comes with an introduction and notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of…
Faust — A Tragedy in Two Parts and the Urfaust
77%
Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his…
Uncle Tom's Cabin
79%
Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American.…
The Voyages of Captain Cook
69%
Cook's three voyages of discovery, which took place between 1768 and 1779, are among the most…
Wives and Daughters
77%
Focusing on two families, the Gibsons and the Hamleys, this novel describes the habits, loyalties,…
The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Valley of Fear
77%
»The Hound of the Baskervilles» is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest…
The Art of War/The Book of Lord Shang
59%
The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese…
Barnaby Rudge
69%
Dickens' first historical novel is set against the infamous 'No Popery' riots that were instigated…