Joan and Peter
Novel by H. G Wells published in 1918, about the education and adolescence of Joan and Peter, two samples of their generation, an excerpt of which was published under the title “Peter Learns Arithmetic” in 1958.
Beware the Cat
The first English novel, an anti-Catholic satire published in 1570.
Montezuma’s Daughter
Novel by H. Rider Haggard published in 1893, the last of his best work.
The Man in the Moone
Book by the English divine and Church of England bishop Francis Godwin (1562–1633), describing a “voyage of utopian discovery”.
A Christmas Carol
Novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech.
The Green Child
Only completed novel by the English anarchist poet and critic Herbert Read, based on the 12th-century legend of two green children who mysteriously appeared in the English village of Woolpit.