A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place ...
The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a bur...
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-cl...
'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...'Adam Bed...
George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they ...
Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury.Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and c...
The phrase `life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Hardy as the title for this, his third volume of short stories. While the tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths...
Cervantes’ tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated gene...
Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and return...
`When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life'.Richard AldingtonThis novel is Lawrence...
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulf...
The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his t...
Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent ...
The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to discover that what appeared to be a falling star was, in fact, a metallic cylinder landing from Mars. Six million people begin to flee London in pa...
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge...
Niekończące się kolejki w polskich sklepach, mnóstwo nowych, drogich prezentów, o których nikt nie pamięta już po kilku dniach, szum, gwar, pośpiech – dla niektóry...
NAJLEPSZE HISTORIE SPOD ZNAKU GROZY I MAKABRY BRYTYJSKIEGO KLASYKAW historii literatury grozy Charles Dickens (1812-1870) to przede wszystkim autor legendarnej „Opowieści wigilijnej&rdq...
Jeżeli myślisz, że podczas zawodów biegowych nic ciekawego nie może się zdarzyć, to jesteś w błędzie. Spotkasz tu Leśnego Dziada, Królową Parku, ni to wyżła, ni to mopsa oraz gdaczące...
Z biblioteki w tajemniczych okolicznościach ginie cenny historyczny dokument. Ignacy i Mela postanawiają wytropić złodzieja. Czy wystarczy im sprytu, żeby rozwiązać kryminalną zagadkę i pomó...
Rzeczywistość odbijana w przeróżnych lustrach, obyczajowych, braku kultury politycznej, tradycyjnych wad, takich jak pycha czy lenistwo, wreszcie portrety kobiet. Często zaskakująca puenta, ...