Books in English in United Kingdom

Cover of Symphony No. 5 in C minor Opus 67

Symphony No. 5 in C minor Opus 67 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus 67, is a symphony composed between 1804 and 1808. Created during a turbulent period, it reflects the challeng…

Cover of United States Census Figures Back to 1630

United States Census Figures Back to 1630 United States. Bureau of the Census This statistical publication by the United States Bureau of the Census compiles historical population data for the United States, reaching back to early colonial ti…

The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 Orphaned Mary Lennox arrives at her uncle’s gloomy manor in Yorkshire, where she begins to explore a property that holds a long-forgotten mystery. In the estate she…

Violists McGowan, Richard, 1958- Violists by Richard McGowan is a novel set in the early 1990s that explores identity and the pressures of social expectations through intersecting lives shaped by m…

Freckles Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924 Freckles, a young orphan, leaves behind a precarious life to take a job guarding valuable timber in Indiana’s Limberlost Swamp. At first, he feels overwhelmed and f…

Cover of Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, published in 1891, follows Tess, a poor country girl whose discovery that her family is descended from an an…

Renascence, and Other Poems Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 Renascence, and Other Poems is an early 20th-century collection by Edna St. Vincent Millay that brings together poems exploring love, loss, nature, and the human co…

The Return of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1905. Following the detective’s apparent death in “The Final Problem…

Far from the Madding Crowd Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 Bathsheba Everdene, an independent woman, inherits a farm in rural England and becomes the focus of attention for three very different suitors. Among them are Gabri…

Jungle Tales of Tarzan Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve short stories published in 1919. The episodes are set during Tarzan’s late teenage years in the African jungle, whe…

Persuasion Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Persuasion by Jane Austen was published in 1817. Eight years after being persuaded to break off her engagement to naval officer Frederick Wentworth, Anne Elliot, th…

Cover of Inaugural Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Given in Washington, D.C. March 4th, 1933

Inaugural Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Given in Washington, D.C. March 4th, 1933 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inaugural address is a landmark historical speech delivered at the start of his presidency during the era of the Great Depression. Confronti…

Cover of Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days Verne, Jules, 1828-1905; Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893 [Translator] Around the World in Eighty Days is a 1872 adventure novel by Jules Verne. In London, the gentleman Phileas Fogg makes a wager of half his fortune that he can circle…

Cover of The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Mark Twain’s The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson is a 1894 novel set in a town along the Mississippi River. The story centers on two infants whose lives are altered by…

Cover of The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier Sterling, Bruce, 1954- The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling is a historical account of early 1990s cyberspace, focusing on how hackers, law …