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The Lion's Whelp: A Story of Cromwell's Time
Amelia E. Barr
When political fracture forces neighbours onto opposite sides of a national divide, personal loyalty becomes the most dangerous form of courage.
The Shadow of a Sin
Charlotte M. Brame
Driven by an impulsive wish to escape a loveless marriage, a young heiress runs away into the night, only to end up entangled in a murder trial that threatens her honor and her true love.
A Brief Handbook of English Authors
Oscar Fay Adams
A compact reference guide gathers hundreds of English literary figures into a single accessible volume. It offers immediate bibliographic details, critical summaries, and publishing contexts for readers seeking quick facts without consulting massive multi-volume encyclopedias.
The Fair Maid of Perth
Walter Scott
In fourteen-century Scotland, a peaceful maiden and an fiery armorer navigate a treacherous web of royal corruption, feud, and bloody urban warfare.
Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others
Unknown
High-spirits and sharp-edged wit fuel this classic collection of British political satires, written to combat revolutionary radicalism through the power of ridicule.
The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
A varied collection of verses reveals a famous novelist experimenting with theatrical songs, biting political satires, and solemn dramatic prologues.
A Wodehouse Miscellany: Articles & Stories
P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
High society, domestic dilemmas, and absurdity meet in early comic sketches and stories filled with foolish bachelors, imperious women, and sharp-witted servants.
Every Man out of His Humour
Ben Jonson
A biting Elizabethan satire exposes human absurdity through characters consumed by bizarre, self-indulgent obsessions they mistake for refined personality traits.
Love for Love: A Comedy
William Congreve
A young lover in debt pretends to lose his mind to avoid losing his inheritance, only to find that the woman he adores is playing a far cleverer game of her own.
The Prussian Officer
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Sweat drips beneath heavy helmets on dusty roads, where a sullen, bruised soldier marches behind the arrogant officer who beat him.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
George MacDonald
When a newly appointed country vicar arrives at his quiet parish, he expects a simple ministry, only to be drawn into the hidden heartbreaks, deep prejudices, and dark secrets of his flock.
English Poets of the Eighteenth Century
Unknown
Across a century of sweeping literary transformation, the voices of a changing nation echo through courtly satires, quiet country churchyards, and the raw, vital rhythms of the rural plow.
Micah Clarke: His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
Arthur Conan Doyle
An elderly Puritan soldier sits by his hearth in 1734 to record how he fought, suffered, and survived the bloody Monmouth Rebellion of 1685.
The Heir of Redclyffe
Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
A fiery young heir, burdened by his family’s dark temper, enters the home of his easygoing guardian, where his sudden arrival reorders every life he touches.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne
William John Locke
A pedantic schoolmaster inherits a fortune, leaves his classroom to cultivate a life of quiet philosophy, and finds his detached existence upended when he shelter a beautiful, naive young refugee from the Ottoman Empire.
The Wrong Box
Robert Louis Stevenson
Two scheming brothers, a missing corpse, and a mislaid piano converge in a Victorian farce where everyone is pursuing a fortune no one can quite manage to grasp.
A Bunch of Cherries: A Story of Cherry Court School
L. T. Meade
To win a life-changing prize, a schoolgirl must choose between absolute honesty and saving her impoverished mother from ruin.
Puck of Pook's Hill
Rudyard Kipling
Along the grassy banks and ancient ditches of a Sussex farm, two children meet an ancient fairy who summons figures from England's past to tell their stories face-to-face.
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
A disgraced prisoner watches a doomed man march toward the gallows, turning personal ruin and institutional cruelty into an unsparing song of human sorrow.
The House by the Church-Yard
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A sleepy Irish village hides a dark web of past crimes, sinister identities, spectral visitations, and a brutal murder that shatters its idyllic eighteenth-century social life. <Image alt="Cover of The House by the Churchyard by Sheridan Le Fanu" caption="Sheridan Le Fanu's classic atmospheric mystery"…
Last Poems by A. E. Housman
A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman
A quiet melancholy permeates these verses, where youthful passion, military duty, and mortal grief drift toward an inevitable twilight.
Callista
John Henry Newman
A young Greek idol-maker in third-century North Africa finds her weary, intellectual world upended when imperial edicts demand the blood of a local Christian community.
The Devil Doctor
Sax Rohmer
A shadow falls across London when the sinister Dr. Fu-Manchu returns from the dead to launch a terrifying new campaign of terror.