WILLIAM MAKePeACe THACKeRAY was born in India to a long line of Yorkshire gentry recently mixed with equally ancient gentry. In 1817, two years after the death of his father a prosperous of ...more on ebook "Vanity Fair..."

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About the Translators:
Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He ha ...more on ebook "The Idiot..."

Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, Mansfield Park marks a conscious break from the tone of her first three novels, Northanger Abbey, Sense and ...more on ebook "Mansfield Park..."

Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full o ...more on ebook "The Picture of Dorian Gray..."

Philip Collins is the author of Dickens aria Crime and Dickens and education, and the editor of volumes of interviews with Dickens and Thackeray. He was formerly emeritus Professor of englis ...more on ebook "Hard Times..."

"When my country - was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir" Published anonymously in 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, P ...more on ebook "Common Sense..."

First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan, a gallant young nobleman who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to join the rank ...more on ebook "The Three Musketeers..."

One of the greatest intellectual ghost stories begins with friends sitting around a fire on Christmas eve sharing tales about spooks. A story concerning a governess who believes that her two ...more on ebook "The Turn of the Screw..."