Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire - from spiritualist sences to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany. What emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passion and ideas.
Citizen Shakespeare: Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays
Shakespeare lived his professional life amid the London streets and died a prominent figure in the town of Stratford. The language of his plays is shot through with the concerns of London "freemen" and their wives, the diverse commercial class that nevertheless excluded adult immigrants from c
First published in 1850, David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The story follows David Copperfield from childhood to adulthood. David is born 6 months after the death of his father and his mother remarries Edward Murdstone. Needless to say, things are not great with his step-father and relatives so David runs away from London to Dover and finds his unmarried aunt Betsy Trotwood who agrees to raise him.
Follow the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his French valet Passepartout as they attempt to travel around the world in 80 days on a 20,000 British pound wager set by his friends at the Reform Club of London, England.
The idea for The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde famously came to Robert Louis Stevenson one night in a dream. This graphic novel adaptation has transformed that dream into an exquisite nightmare combining an already-chilling tale with truly haunting artwork. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the story of a respectable London doctor who ends up leading a dreadful double life - as a doctor, and as a cold-blooded murderer.
