In the 1940s a set of twins is separated at birth by a desperate nurse and the brothers grow up...

Daring, original, and highly erotic, this 18th-century novel explores the moral ambiguities of love and revenge in a series of...

Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the emergence of the schematic ironies which characterise the author's later works

Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, this book relates...

An exposé of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally-starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-19th century,...

Theatre program.

The story of the journey made by a Victorian gentleman, Phileas Fogg, who wagered that he could travel around the...

The hero, Daniel Deronda, adopted son of an English aristocrat, discovers his Jewish heritage and with that his heritage.

For David Copperfield, orphaned and with a cruel stepfather, the future looks bleak. But a new start beckons with the...

A rich and pompous merchant is plagued by loneliness and misfortune.

Experimental novel by James Joyce.

Two science fiction tales which relate the adventures of three men who, accompanied by two dogs, are shot to the...

Novel depicting Victorian industrial society.

The beauty of the child-like Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. Combining the elements of the detective...

The phrase 'life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Thomas Hardy as the title for this...

Presenting a tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, this novel highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and...