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The Trespasser is the second novel written by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1912. Originally it was entitled the Saga of Siegmund and drew upon the experiences of a friend of Lawrence, Helen Corke, and her adulterous relationship with a married man that ended with his suicide. Lawrence worked from Corke's diary, with her permission, but also urged her to publish; which she did in 1933 as Neutral...

The Hero is a little known masterpiece of W Somerset Maugham. It is much more clinical and less romantic than his two great novels, “The Moon and Sixpence” and “The Razor’s Edge”, the latter having foretold of the mass interest in Eastern religions and metaphysics that would follow. The Hero is essentially an acerbic look at the roots of English society at...

The Light That Failed is a novel by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. The Light that Failed follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter who goes blind. A 1903 Broadway play starring Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and his wife...

Mansfield Park is the third novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between February 1811 and 1813. It was published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a second edition in 1816, its publication was taken over by John Murray, who also...

A Song of the English was collected in The Seven Seas, published simultaneously in London and the USA on 30 October 1896: London, Methuen & Co. New York, D. Appleton & Co.(In 1892/3, Kipling had instructed Appleton & Co to use English spelling for any of his work that they published.) A separate edition of the poem, including the six subsidiary poems, was published by Hodder and...

Look! We Have Come Through! was first published in the United Kingdom in 1917 by Chatto and Windus, London; a US edition based on sheets from the Chatto edition was issued by B.W. Huebsch, New York, in 1918. A second, illustrated edition was issued by the Ark Press, Cornwall, in 1958, and this was in turn reissued in the USA in 1959 by The Rare Books Collection of the...

This play was produced at the Royalty Theatre, on March 27th, 1919, with the following cast: Sir Arthur Little - C. Aubrey Smith. Ronald Parry- George Relph. Henry Pritchard - V. Sutton Vane. George Appleby - Townsend Whitling. Osman Pasha - George C. Desplas. Violet - Fay Compton. Mrs. Etheridge - Eva Moore. Mrs. Pritchard - Helen Haye. Mrs. Appleby - Mrs. Robert Brough.

Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practising his magic in the England of...

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871.  This epistolary novel, an early complete work that the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the main character—the widowed Lady Susan—as she seeks a new husband for herself and one for her daughter. Although the...

The Story of the Gadsbys is a story by Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published as no. 2 of the Indian Railway Library in 1888. The Story of the Gadsbys is written in dramatic form, consisting of eight short scenes (listed below). This short pamphlet, of 100 pages, was later collected in book form as the second part of Soldiers Three. "Poor Dear Mamma" "The World Without" "The Tents of...

Bay - A book of poems by D. H. Lawrence. "WHERE the trees rise like cliffs, proud and blue-tinted in the distance, Between the cliffs of the trees, on the grey-green park Rests a still line of soldiers, red motionless range of guards Smouldering with darkened busbies beneath the bay-onets' slant rain. Colossal in nearness a blue police sits still on his horse Guarding the path;...

Rewards and Fairies is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling published in 1910. The title comes from the poem "Farewell, Rewards and Fairies" by Richard Corbet. The poem is referred to by the children in the first story of the preceding book Puck of Pook's Hill. Rewards and Fairies is set one year later chronologically although published four years afterwards. The book consists of a...

The  recent cult for Miss Austen, which has resulted in no less than ten new editions of her novels within a decade and three memoirs by different hands within as many years, have made the facts of her life familiar to most readers. It was a short life, and an uneventful one as viewed from the standpoint of our modern times, when steam and electricity have linked together the ends of the...

Carmen is a novella by Prosper Mérimée, written and first published in 1845. It has been adapted into a number of dramatic works, including the famous opera by Georges Bizet. The novella comprises four parts. Only the first three appeared in the original publication in the October 1, 1845 issue of the Revue des Deux Mondes (Robinson 1992); the fourth first appeared in the book...

Set in the Midlands, Lawrence's Touch and Go is a three-act play dealing with clash between capitalism and labor. In his attempt to organize miners Willie Houghton argues that capitalism is like a wheel-cart and labor is like the frog crushed beneath its wheels. "The essence of tragedy, which is creative crisis, is that a man should go through with his fate, and not dodge it and go bumping into...

Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People was published in 1891. Most of the stories had previously appeared in periodicals. Table of Contents: Preface The Lang Men o' Larut Reingelder and the German Flag The Wandering Jew Through the Fire The Finances of the Gods The Amir's Homily Jews in Shushan The Limitations of Pambe Serang Little Tobrah Bubbling Well Road "The City of...

With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke, from the editor of the 'St. James's Gazette,' and sixteen of the letters collected in the volume appeared first in that journal. According to the author, "some of the Letters are...

Of Human Bondage (1915) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention." Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from a...

Twilight in Italy is a small book of travel essays, worth reading both for their own sake and for the light they throw on the context of Lawrence’s work. D.H. Lawrence's Twilight in Italy is a travel narrative in which the traveler himself brings at least as much to the scene being described as does the scene itself. Lawrence's at turns rigorously philosophical and poetically...

Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling Table of Contents: An Habitation Enforced The Recall Garm — A Hostage The Power of the Dog The Mother Hive The Bees and the Flies With the Night Mail The Four Angels A Deal in Cotton The New Knighthood The Puzzler The Puzzler Little Foxes Gallio’s Song The House Surgeon The Rabbi’s Song