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The New Arcadia is the version known to the Renaissance and later periods, it is substantially longer than the Old Arcadia. In the 1580s, Sidney took the frame of the orig...
A newly edited selection from the most famous, colorful, and vivid diarist in the English language–in the most accessible, uncensored, and clearly annotated edition availa...
Abridged. This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction by Antony Lentin and Brian Norman.
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published betwee...
This book comes with an introduction and notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.
"Rasselas" is a provocative fable a...
'Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!'
The Caliph Vathek is dissolute and...
'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.'
The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a mast...
Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert - the orphaned heroine of Ann Radcliffe's 1794 gothic Classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho - finds herself after Count Mo...
'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!'
The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most in...
Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the...
In Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we ...
Roderick Random (1748), Smollett's first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous an...
Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and...
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative i...
"Tom Jones" is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest.
Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to ...
The misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver certainly are extraordinary. First he is shipwrecked in a strange land, and finds himself a prisoner of the tiny inhabitants of Lillip...
Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe – a young man with a thirst for adventure – finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a f...
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, John Bunyan's masterful religious allegory, narrates the journey of an everyman hero, Christian, as he attempts to navigate the trials and tribulat...
Surprisingly apropos as civilization enters the twenty-first century, Sir Thomas More's Utopia offers a perceptive analysis of social, economic, and moral hypocrisies in s...
This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction by Helen Moore.
The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring and...