Cori Samuel
The War of the Worlds (Version 3)
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gu…
The Scarlet Letter (version 2)
This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of …
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years…
Love and Freindship
Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling…
Black Beauty (version 2)
Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page o…
Mathilda
The finished draft of a short novel by Mary Shelley. Its adult theme, concerning a father's incestuous love for his daughter and its conseq…
Aunt Crete's Emancipation
Aunt Lucretia — 'Crete' to her family — is a sweet, patient older woman, who lives with her narrow-minded sister and spoilt niece, acting as…
The Water-Babies
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, first published in its entirety in 1863. Though…
The Wood Beyond the World
The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the…
Nine Unlikely Tales
Nine original and, yes, unlikely fairy-tales, which include stories of the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a charming villa-residence …
Notes on Nursing
Notes on Nursing was published in 1859 and is a fascinating view into the theories underpinning the early development of modern nursing and …
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Version 2)
By turns illuminating, infuriating, bewildering, and amusing, Nietzsche's masterwork covers a lot of ground. He rejects most strands of Wes…
My School Days
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…
Wings and the Child
"When this book first came to my mind it came as a history and theory of the building of Magic Cities on tables, with bricks and toys a…
The Moving Picture Girls
Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City - times are hard, even for a talented actor like M…
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Version 2)
The Secret Agent tells the story of Adolf and Winnie Verloc. He is a phony anarchist and agent provocateur of the title, and the plot centre…
The Wind in the Willows (version 5)
A children's classic, this is the story of Rat and Mole, who have many adventures both on and off their beloved river, with their friends To…
Royal Children of English History
From the first chapter: "History is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the thin…
A Guide to Men
A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bla…
Living Alone
This is not a real book. It does not deal with real people, nor should it be read by real people. But there are in the world so many real bo…