British Literature
An Old Man's Love
Fifty-year-old William Whittlestaff becomes guardian to Mary Lawrie, the orphaned and penniless daughter of an old friend, and gradually finds himself falling in love with her....
The Hunting of the Snark
But what is a Snark? "Humpty Dumpty's theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all"....
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
Three short stories by one of the most popular writers of the 19th century: "The Canterville Ghost", "The Model Millionaire", and "Lord Arthur Saville's Crime"....
A Trio of Saki: 'The Storyteller', 'The Open Window', 'Bertie's Christmas Eve'
Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture....
The Yellow Wallpaper
In this classic late-nineteenth-century story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a new mother suffering from what we might today call 'post-partum depression', is diagnosed with a nervous disorder....
Tom Jones
Tom Jones is widely regarded as Fielding's greatest novel, a wonderful, picaresque adventure that takes Tom, a foundling, on a hilarious and by turns scandalous journey....
The Suicide Club
The Suicide Club tells of the inscrutable gentlemen who liked playing cards and the young man with the strong death wish and a plate of cream cakes....
Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte wrote her first novel out of a need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women....
Oliver Twist
The Macmillan Readers series is one of the most popular and respected series of readers for those learning English. Macmillan Readers are simplified "retellings" of an original work....











