Based on actual events, Pamela is the story of a young girl who goes to work in a private residence and finds herself pursued by her employer's son, described as a "gentleman of free principles.

From the work of the prolific Lydia Sigourney Huntley,who enjoyed immense popularity in her own time,to that of the ant-slavery protester Sarah Moore Grimke,AN AMERICAN WOMEN POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY embraces a wealth of material ...

"Three Men in a Boat" is one of the best-loved and most enduring comic novels in all of English literature. It tells the tale of a boating expedition on the Thames, undertaken by three friends, to say nothing of the dog, Montmorency.

Wilde lived out a conflict between his public identity and his private self; and this fissure between the two is interestingl typical of his age.

First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of that period alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. It is the most complex of all Scott's narratives.

Tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and puts this knowledge to use by creating a monster being