With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major...

With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the...

"As You Like It" ist eine Komödie von William Shakespeare, die sich um Themen wie Liebe, Verkleidung und das ländliche Leben dreht. Die Geschichte beginnt am Hofe des Herzogs Frederick, der seinen Bruder Duke Senior entthront und ins...

With an Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. A wealthy...

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 mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now...

"Napoleon of Notting Hill" von G. K. Chesterton ist ein satirischer Roman, der in einer alternativen Zukunft spielt, genauer gesagt im Jahr 1984 (obwohl das Buch 1904 veröffentlicht wurde). In dieser Zukunft hat sich die britische...

With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries,...

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" von Oscar Wilde ist ein Roman, der die Geschichte von Dorian Gray erzählt, einem jungen und schönen Mann im viktorianischen London. Dorian wird vom Künstler Basil Hallward porträtiert, der von seiner...