Inspired by a box of wooden toy soldiers given as a present to her elder brother Branwell in 1826, Charlotte Bronte created,...

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"In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven… two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and...

All children dream of having a secret house where they can live on their own, far from any rules and regulations. But not all of...

Presented through an ingeniously overlapping and intertwining series of letters written by six very different characters, The...

In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the...

Once again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an anonymous but illustrious client...

On a cold morning, at daybreak, the 304th New York Regiment is waiting to engage with the Confederate army. Among the soldiers is...

Meet Miss Charlotte… a modern Mary Poppins who wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that maker her look like a scarecrow, and...

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane find the Psammead, a magical sand fairy, in a pet shop in London, they have no idea that they...

Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the...

As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on...

During a conversation about literary forgeries, Erskine tells his young guest that he has received - as a legacy from a friend,...

Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever...

Katy, a twelve-year-old gangly tomboy, dreams of blossoming into a sophisticated young woman, capable of grand deeds and...

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left...

When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion...

Comprising one finished novel, Lady Susan, which was published posthumously, and two unfinished fragments, Sanditon and The...

In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of...

Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One’s Own is an...

In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator, after an attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally finds himself in what...

Contains the Preface to the 1908 Edition

Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel...

As a group of Western tourists travel down the Nile on the steamer Korosko towards the historical sites near Egypt's southern...

A Village Romeo and Juliet is a bitter-sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired...

"Holmes!" I cried. "Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of...

Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep...

Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust...

Inspired by Fitzgerald’s own courtship of his future wife Zelda, ‘The Last of the Belles’ centres on the Southern beauty Ailie...

A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald’s name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces – the most...

When Conrad, son of Prince Manfred of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances on his wedding day, his father, fearing his...

The local landowner Van Cheele experiences an unnerving encounter with a youth sunning himself near a pond, and starts to wonder...