Anthony Ogus
Kipps
Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles b…
The Three Clerks (version 2)
Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk…
Pictures from Italy
Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…
Nina Balatka
Nina Balatka is a poignant romance set against the backdrop of 19th-century Prague, where the lives of a Catholic woman and a Jewish man int…
The New Machiavelli
About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure, this novel by H.G. Wells generated controversy when it…
Love and Mr Lewisham
Love and Mr Lewisham is a witty exploration of the complexities of love, ambition, and societal expectations in late 19th century England. H…
An Eye for an Eye
A short but typical Trollope romance in which a young nobleman is torn between love for an impoverished Irish girl and the expectations of h…
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
An anecdotal account of the journey undertaken by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson to the Scottish Highlands and the Hebrides Islands - Summ…
Alice Dugdale
An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…
Riceyman Steps
Arnold Bennet's masterly novel is a gritty tale about a bookseller whose life and love of a woman are afflicted by miserliness. It is set in…
Sea and Sardinia
A travel book describing a journey taken by Lawrence and his wife Frieda (whom he refers to as the Queen Bee) by sea from Sicily to Sardinia…
The Man Who Was Thursday (Version 2)
Subtitled by the author as a "Nightmare", this is a fantasy, comic thriller about a plot to end the world by a group of anarchists…
England, My England
A book of ten short stories, written with Lawrence's typical sensibility to and awareness of social mores, set around the period of the Firs…
Typhoon (version 2)
A seafaring novella in which those manning ships are pitted against the forces of nature. A typical Conrad exploration of human beings under…
Non-Combatants and Others
Through a variety of experiences of the effects of the First World War, an art student is drawn into pacifism. Rose Macaulay's satirical no…
Ghetto Comedies
A series of tales, poignant as well as comic, set in the Jewish East End of London by the writer known as the "Dickens of the ghetto&qu…
The Hole in the Wall
A lively story about a pub, and those who ran it, at the end of the 19th century in the East End Dockland of London, with its poverty-strick…
A Call: The Tale of Two Passions
The story of an English gentleman's relationship with two women. Ford's themes are reminiscent of Henry James: the tensions between desire a…
The Diaries of John Evelyn Volume I
John Evelyn was a 17th century polymath, with interests in the fine arts, architecture, gardening, as well as anatomy and the natural scienc…
The Chateau of Prince Polignac
A short story by one of the masters of Victorian literature, written early in his career. Characteristic of much of his later novels, it is …