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Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siecle Writing

Catherine Delyfer

Edward Lloyd and His World

Rohan McWilliam, Sarah Louise Lill

Fictions of advice

Judith Ferster

Contesting the Gothic

James Watt

While literary critics have often signalled their confusion about the meaning of The Castle of Otranto, they have nonetheless been virtually united in seizing…

Eighteenth-century authorship and the play of fiction

Emily Hodgson Anderson

The reading lesson

Patrick Brantlinger

In Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), Mrs. Malaprop orders her niece "to illiterate" her lover from her memory.

Literature and agency in English fiction reading

Adam Reed

Family fictions and family facts

Brian P. Cooper

Candide

Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestphalie, dans le château…

The Ravenscar Dynasty

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the…

Peveril of the peak

Sir Walter Scott, Walter scott, Sir Scott

WILLIAM, the Conqueror of England, was, or supposed himself to be, the father of a certain William Peveril, who attended him to the battle…

Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence

OURS is essentially a tragic age but we refuse emphatically to be tragic about it.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

T. E. Lawrence

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances.

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these…

The Looking Glass Wars

Frank Beddor

Everyone thought she had made it up, and she had tolerated more taunting and teasing from other children, more lectures and punishments from grown-ups,…