Wordsworth
The Portrait of a Lady
78%
Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an…
Rob Roy
68%
From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scotts finest…
Rights of Man
76%
Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for…
The Voyage of the Beagle
96%
Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831…
Symposium and the Death of Socrates
77%
In Symposium, a group of Anthenian aristocrats attend a party held by Agathon to celebrate his…
Adam Bede
89%
Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank…
Book of Limericks
79%
While no collection of limericks can claim to be ‘complete', The Wordsworth Book of Limericks…
The Count of Monte Cristo
65%
The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The…
Felix Holt, the Radical
95%
»Felix Holt» is set, like «Middlemarch» in the Midlands at the time of the Great Reform Bill of…
The Interpretation of Dreams
99%
Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate…
Key Philosophical Writings
59%
Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest…
Lady Audley's Secret
78%
The flaxen-haired beauty of the child-like Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But…
Meditations
77%
The «Meditations» of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are a readable exposition of the system of…
Le Morte D'Arthur
75%
The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring and…
The Prince
97%
Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a…
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
58%
In the early years of the 18th century, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. Hogg's…
The Prophet
87%
The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted…
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
65%
This edition presents the classic free translation by Edward Fitzgerald of the great Persian poem…
Tao Te Ching
79%
Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of…
The Travels of Marco Polo
67%
Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is…