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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...

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd.

Contains six of her finest stories that have been selected to demonstrate the variety and accomplishment of her shorter fiction,...

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...

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.

A Victorian governess's love for her mysterious employer is threatened by the tragic secret of his mansion.

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

With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager. This collection brings together Jane Austen's earliest experiments in...

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