In print since 1948, this is a single-volume collection of Oscar Wilde's texts. It contains his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. Illustrated with many photographs.

A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

Although not among George Eliot's most admired works, this story is set in Florence at the end of the 15th century. It re-creates the picturesque complexion of the city and the characters of the historical figures, Charles VIII, Machiavelli and Savanorola.

When attractive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a highly unsuitable Italian 12 years her junior. Her snobbish in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval, and when Lidia's decision eventually brings disaster, her English relatives embark on an expedition to face the uncouth foreigner.

Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

The fourth of Trollope's Palliser novels, this text tells the story of Phineas Redux, who returns to politics only to find that a series of quarrels hamper his progress. The beautiful and enigmatic Madame Max Goesler, familiar from earlier political novels, plays her part in this tale.

Includes the stories, acrostics and puzzles written by Lewis Carroll.

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, is involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory which goes disastrously wrong. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery.

Based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge.

Includes stories about Dublin life.

A spiritual allegory that explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

A new edition of the bestselling Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature, this wide-ranging compact guide to literature has been fully revised and updated. Now includes increased coverage of world literature. Indispensable for English students, teachers, and anyone else who loves literature.

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 places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome sexual advances.

Tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women.

Contains three short works that show the author experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. This title features Lady Susan , The Watsons and Sanditon .

Selected titles, third edition.

This is the final text volume of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy , containing The Third Partition , The Table and an index of persons. Burton anatomizes love melancholy, its kinds, causes, symptoms and cures, and the causes of true religious melancholy.