内容简介 For some women becoming a mother seems to diminish their individuality in the eyes of the world. No longer are they a unique person with strength......
Sentimental Education has been described both as the first modern novel and as a novel to end all novels. Weaving a poignant love story into his accou......
Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the strangest and one of the greatest poems of the Middle Ages. As spiritual allegory and social satire, it is not ......
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mothe......
内容简介Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with......
The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels reiterating his favourite themes of man’S eternal quest for perfection in both Iove and a......
When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte ......
Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies.These ......
In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionari......
With a word of warning to those of nervous a disposition, Wordsworth presents this spellbinding collection of chilling Celtic tales of the macabre, al......
内容简介 You're highly intelligent, very talented, super-enthusiastic and have the most brilliant ideas. But why do so many of your plans falter, why do y......
Walking into a room with confidence can make a life-changing difference, whether you’re interviewing for a job or looking for love. But what if your s......
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) relates Thomas De Quincey's early life and experiences of opium addiction at the time when that drug was ......
Njal's Saga is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works. Written c.1280, about events a couple of centuries earl......
Black Beauty had a fine, soft black coat, one white foot and a silver star on his forehead. This tale tells of the horse's adventures and tjoys is p......
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses t......
This comic novel describes the boating expedition on the Thames of three friends and their dog, Montmerency. The difficulties and vicissitudes of thes......
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Cr......
