Wanderings in Patagonia is an account of Julius Beerbohm's expedition to Patagonia in 1877. He vi...

First published in 1836, 'Wood Leighton' is as much an evocative and vivid novel by a poet of the...

'The Rise of Silas Lapham' is Howell's best-known work, and this elegant tale of Boston society a...

Based on a historical figure, an Irish leader in the rising of 1641, 'Rory O'More' was first penn...

George III was born in 1738, and came to the throne in 1760, marrying his wife Charlotte in 1761 ...

Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions

'The Comedy of Human Life (La Comedie Humaine)' is the collective title given to a series of link...

The last of the 'Chronicles of Carlingford', a series of closely-observed and comic narratives of...

Two novels based largely the author's personal experiences at sea

Finding himself on the German Russian border on the eve of the First World War, John Morse effect...

Although better known for her letters to men of standing such as Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Pio...

A narrative of Captain Scott''s expedition to the Antarctic. This book provides a record of vario...