Facey is a trickster who takes advantage of society's greed and gullibility, and gets away w...

A cult college novel on its original publication in 1853, this is the funny tale of the adventure...

In the seventeenth century antiquarianism was a well-respected profession and antiquarian works w...

Harry Peckham was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, before being called to ...

Sam Slick, a clock-peddler who accompanies a visiting English gentleman on an unforgettable tour ...

Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest, first published in 1791, is the epitome of the Go...

Silas Rutvyn is something of a riddle. To some, including his niece, he is something of a ghost. ...

Kathleen Ferrier has a reputation as the greatest lyric contralto of the twentiety century. Her s...

Examines the experiences of seven national leaders during the First World War including Adolf Hit...

The household of Mr Wharton and his daughters is visited by Mr Harper, an American loyalist; Capt...

Oscar Wilde's story of The Canterville Ghost tells the tale of a malevolent ghost who discov...

Patrick Bronte (1777-1861) was the father of the famous Bronte Sisters; Anne, Charlotte and Emily...