The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo- European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200 900…

The greed of Patricia Ingham’s family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world…

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit…

Offers an account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the ‘Church of Opium’. This autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes the author’s surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through…

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer’s dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced…

A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the ‘overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility’.

Valeria Woodville investigates the murder of her husband’s first wife in the attempt to prove him guiltless. This book exposes the repression of Victorian domestic life and marriage.

Olga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken forester on a country estate, and her fateful relationships with the men in her life. Adored by Urbenin, the estate manager, whom…