As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully wea...

This book shows how the Brontes writings engage with the major issues which dominate twentieth ce...

This book shows how the Brontes writings engage with the major issues which dominate twentieth ce...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Co...

Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. Th...

'I m an outsider to the end of my days!'Jude Fawley s hopes of a university education are lost wh...

Despite the prodigious inventiveness of the Middle Ages, the era is often characterized as deeply...

A fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens's characteristi...

'Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul?'Jude Fawley...

`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd w...

The Language of Gender and Class challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victor...

During and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficul...

The Language of Gender and Class challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victor...

When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen...

Elizabeth Gaskell's portrait of kindness, compassion, and hopeCranford depicts the lives and preo...