The main materials contained in these pages will certainly be new for the vast majority of readers. Moreover the Mandæan narratives, legends and discourses are not only...

This book attempts to show what we know about life; to set the bounds of real truth as distinguished from phrases and self-deception. It is divided into four distinct parts: The...

Mary Shelley wrote this novel to distract herself from her grief after the deaths of her one-year-old daughter Clara in Venice and her three-year-old son William in Rome....

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the subject...

Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who has purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one,...

Charles Pooter and his wife Caroline have just moved to a new home. Mr Pooter is a City of London clerk with Perkupps. The couple have a 20-year-old son, Lupin, who works as a...

In the continuing story of Anne Shirley, Anne leaves Green Gables and her work as a teacher in Avonlea to pursue her dream of taking further education at Redmond College in Nova...

There was a time when a man in search of the pleasures of gossip sought the society of ladies. The man knows better now. He goes to the smoking-room of his club.

A masterpiece of modern drama, Uncle Vanya is one of the four major dramatic works by Anton Chekhov.

A beautiful and virtuous young girl of not-quite-fourteen, Nell Trent is the novel's main character. An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather in his shop of odds and...