May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter...
The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution...
‘Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it...
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...
'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider’s claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him'His inheritance squandered...
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...
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...
'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?'...
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...
When Rachel Verinder's birthday present - the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond - is stolen at her party, suspicion and the diamond's mysterious curse seem...
'If only I had the skill, I would produce novels out-trashing the trashiest that ever sold fifty thousand copies' In&,nbsp,New Grub Street&,nbsp,George Gissing re-created...
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