Finnegans Wake ♡ 22 20 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the
Jude the Obscure ♡ 17 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Hardy’s portrait of Jude, the idealist and dreamer who is a prisoner of his own physical nature, is one of the most haunting and desperate
The Plays of Oscar Wilde ♡ 15 16 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome and the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A
Women in Love ♡ 15 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 This sequel to the equally famous The Rainbow was regarded as a modernist and breakthrough novel or as a sordid and revolting tale of sexual
Tales of Mystery and Imagination ♡ 19 25 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 These are the first modern detective stories and include 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' and 'The Purloined Letter
Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel ♡ 8 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 The sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, reunites the three friends for their ‘Bummel’ (‘roaming or wandering’) through Germany. The results vary from the seductively
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass ♡ 7 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as
Ulysses ♡ 8 18 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W.
Dracula & Dracula's Guest ♡ 16 25 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 An interesting and thorough edition which brings together not only Bram Stoker's magnum opus Dracula, but also the lesser known but maybe just as important
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats ♡ 15 31 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to the
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion ♡ 16 33 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Remarkable for its vast assembly of facts and its charm of presentation, it offers the thesis that man progresses from magic through religious belief to
The Great Comedies and Tragedies ♡ 15 33 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 'Not for an age but for all time.' So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare's unique place among the world's great
The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman ♡ 8 29 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Whitman's poems are organic and free flowing, fit into no previously defined genre and skilfully combine autobiographical, sociological and religious themes with lyrical sensuality. His
Chekhov's Plays ♡ 9 31 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 This seems pessimistic, and yet Chekhov claimed he was writing comedy. Readers, actors and directors must decide for themselves which way to play these pieces.
The Collected Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe ♡ 8 59 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.82/5 Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde ♡ 8 70 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.78/5 His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of