Wordsworth
Dictionary of Quotations
86%
Quotations have exercised a particular fascination for humanity since the birth of recorded…
Don Quixote
86%
According to tradition Cervantes first conceived his comic masterpiece in jail — his avowed intent…
The Household Companion
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Drawing on the experience she gained while 'constantly employed by fashionable and noble families',…
Human, All Too Human and Beyond Good and Evil
77%
»Human, All Too Human» (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the…
Jack the Ripper
76%
Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets…
Jewish Antiquities
55%
The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus represent one of the most important records of…
Something of Myself
55%
Something of Myself, Rudyard Kipling’s memoir of his writing life, was composed in the year before…
The Life and Voyages of Christophor Columbus
87%
Modern views of Columbus are overshadowed by guilt about past conquests. Credit for discovering the…
Lives of the Twelve Caesars
88%
Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman…
London Labour and the London Poor
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»London Labour and the London Poor» is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It…
Mr Standfast
57%
When Richard Hannay, the hero of «The Thirty-nine Steps», is recalled by the Head of British…
Njal's Saga
79%
Njal's Saga is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works.…
The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror
86%
»The figure of my wife came in...it came straight towards the bed...its wide eyes were open and…
The Republic
97%
The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years.…
The Selected Works of G: K. Chesterton
98%
G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade…
The Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
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The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of…
Sentimental Education
69%
»Sentimental Education» has been described both as the first modern novel and as a novel to end all…
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
76%
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, «Seven Pillars of Wisdom» is one of the…
Shakespeare and His Tragic Life
66%
First published in 1909, «The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life» is a lively biography of England…
Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot
67%
Once more, the game's afoot as Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street returns in twenty new adventures…