**IN VERY DELICATE CONDITION**Henry AdamsAn instant bestseller when first published in 1880, Democracy is the quintessential American political novel. At its heart is Madeleine Lee, a young widow who comes...

Anthony Trollope   Set in mid-Victorian England, this novel follows the fight for ascendancy among the clergy and dependants of a great English cathedral. 477 pages, Mass Market Paperback Published...

Elizabeth Gaskell   This is a tale of Dives and Lazarus, of the comfortable pinnacle and the miserable base of the Victorian social pyramid. It is told, however, without simplification...

Sir Walter ScottWith an Introduction and Notes by David Blair. From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most...

Jerome PreislerThe eighth page-turning thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Power Plays series.When an anonymous E-mail alerts UpLink International's operatives to suspicious activity on an exclusive island resort,...

Daniel Defoe   The story of a woman born and bred in the murky world of seventeenth-century London. Daniel Defoe created a female character-narrator who recounts, from a woman's point...

Author: DH Lawrence The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children,...

Wilkie Collins   One of the greatest mystery thrillers ever written, Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White was a phenomenal bestseller in the 1860s, achieving even greater success than works...

Anthony HopeAnthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue.Rassendyll...

Eugene O'NeillThree Plays: Desire Under The Elms; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes ElectraThese three plays exemplify Eugene O'Neil's ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds...

Martin Buber

VirgilThe Aeneid of Virgil (70-19 B.C.) describes the legendary origin of the Roman nation. It tells of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who escaped with some followers after Troy fell, and...