The Law and the Lady

Wilkie Collins

By the time The Law and the Lady appeared in 1875, The Woman in White and The Moonstone had already established Collins as the leading practitioner of 'sensation fiction.' The Law and the Lady builds on this tradition by introducing one of English literature's earliest woman detectives, Valeria Woodvi...

Terence - The Comedies

Terence

The Roman dramatist Terence (c. 186-159 BC) adapted many of his comedies from Greek sources, rendering them suitable for audiences of his own time by introducing subtler characterization and more complex plots. In his romantic play, The Girl from Andros, Terence portrays a love affair saved by a startli...

Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)

Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t...