"Jude the Obscure" ist ein Roman von Thomas Hardy, nicht Norman Vance. Der Roman erzählt die tragische Geschichte von Jude Fawley, einem jungen Mann aus der Arbeiterklasse im viktorianischen England, der davon träumt, eine akademische...

"Agnes Grey" ist ein Roman der englischen Schriftstellerin Anne Brontë, erstmals veröffentlicht im Jahr 1847. Die Geschichte basiert teilweise auf Brontës eigenen Erfahrungen als Gouvernante und bietet eine realistische Darstellung der...

"Three Sea Stories" von Joseph Conrad, herausgegeben von Keith Carabine, ist eine Sammlung von drei packenden Erzählungen, die auf hoher See spielen und Conrads meisterhafte Fähigkeit zeigen, die Herausforderungen und psychologischen...

"Der Raritätenladen" (Originaltitel: "The Old Curiosity Shop") ist ein Roman von Charles Dickens, der ursprünglich in den Jahren 1840-1841 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Illustrationen im Buch stammen von Hablot K. Browne, auch bekannt als...

Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write 'Gothic' stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational,...

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual...

Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed...

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the...

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Translationsare by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon). JULES VERNE (1828-1905)...

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens's final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes...