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347 public-domain british literature books, summarised. Page 8 of 8.
The House with the Green Shutters
George Douglas Brown
A man’s pride becomes a fortress of ruin in a small Scottish town, where the watchful eyes of neighbors turn casual gossip into a weapon that dismantles his entire family.
Kate Coventry: An Autobiography
G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
High-spirited and stubbornly independent, Kate Coventry navigates the rigid expectations of Victorian society on horseback, torn between the calm devotion of her cousin and the magnetic allure of a handsome officer.
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Driven by dark prophecies and unbridled ambition, a valiant general murders his sovereign to seize the throne, unleashing a brutal chain of violence, paranoia, and psychological ruin that eventually consumes both him and his co-conspiring wife.
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The Tempest: The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
William Shakespeare
A banished ruler uses supernatural mastery to strand his old enemies on a remote island, setting an intricate trap of illusion, revenge, and eventual reconciliation.
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
William Barnes
A rich tapestry of Dorset rural life unfolds through the changing seasons, capturing the honest toil, quiet griefs, and simple joys of a vanished pastoral world.
Riders to the Sea
J. M. (John Millington) Synge
A mother on a barren Irish island watches the ocean claim the last of her six sons, transforming her lifelong terror into a quiet, stoic release.
Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
Great dramatic art forces a confrontation with the mysterious ultimate power governing human life, revealing how individual character and choice work out their own tragedy within an unyielding moral universe.
The Stretton Street Affair
William Le Queux
A poisoned drink in a dimly lit West End library plunges a young engineer into a vast web of fraud, international murder, and industrialist greed.
Colorado Jim
George Goodchild
A rough-hewn American mining millionaire marries an aristocratic English beauty, only to drag her into the unforgiving Klondike wilderness where physical peril and grueling hardship strip away social prejudice to forge genuine love.
Milton
Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
Understanding a supreme, unyielding poet demands a critic of equal independence, one who traces how personal conviction turns into monumental, classic verse.
Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life. Volume 1
Samuel Lover
A blunder in an Irish village rarely stays a quiet affair, especially when the servant responsible possesses an almost supernatural talent for turning simple instructions into grand catastrophe.