On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride...
One of the finest poets of the Victorian age, Christina Rosetti is known today for the directness, clarity and unmatched lyricism of her works. This...
Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: ‘a narrative meditation studying a hen, a...
‘Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.’From intimate musings on his...
‘I must die. But must I die bawling?’What does it mean to live a virtuous life? How can we rise above pain and anguish? In...
Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters written 2000 years ago,...
Bleak House&,nbsp,is Dickens's most enigmatic and masterly novel, a savage, blackly comic indictment of a legal system that devours the innocent and a society that...
'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all...
'What can I do? ... I must get up in the morning and do what every one else does. It is all like a dance...
'You must give up this mad idea, Frank ... there is but one course left open to you. You MUST marry money'Son of a bankrupt...
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious...
'What is the society of London, that I should be tempted, for its sake, to mortify my senses, and compound with such uncleanness as my...
'Kissing, Joseph, is but a prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young fellow of your Age and Complexion will be content with Kissing?'...
'As you got older, ... you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish,...
Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair. In this fiction,...
'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want...
In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new...
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of...
'Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?'In a fit of...
As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her beloved brother...
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