{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} The '''Penguin English Library''' is an imprint of [[Penguin Books]]. The series was first created in 1963<ref name="Guardian 24-5-2012">{{cite web|last1=Kelly|first1=Stuart|title=The new Penguin English Library is a far cry from its 1963 version|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/may/24/new-penguin-english-library-2012|website=The Guardian}}</ref> as a 'sister series'<ref name="About Penguin Classics">{{cite web|title=About Penguin Classics|url=http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/about/|website=Penguin Classics}}</ref> to the [[Penguin Classics]] series, providing critical editions of English classics; at that point in time, the Classics label was reserved for works translated into English (for example, Juvenal's ''Sixteen Satires''). The English Library was merged into the Classics stable in the mid 1980s,<ref name="Guardian 24-5-2012" /> and all titles hitherto published in the Library were reissued as Classics.
The imprint was resurrected in 2012 for a new series of titles.<ref name="About Penguin Classics" /><ref name="Independent 4-6-2012" /> The present English Library no longer seeks to provide critical editions; the focus is now 'on the beauty and elegance of the book'.<ref name="Independent 4-6-2012" />
== History ==
=== 1963 to 1986 === The Penguin English Library aimed to publish 'a comprehensive range of the literary masterpieces which have appeared in the English language since the 15th century'.<ref name="Guardian 24-5-2012" /> All texts in the Library were published with an introduction and explanatory notes written and compiled by an editor; some with a bibliography as well.<ref name="About Penguin Classics" /> Editors were also required to provide 'authoritative texts', using their own judgement in printing one, or in some cases creating their own.<ref name="About Penguin Classics" /> The series was recognisable chiefly by its distinctive orange spine.<ref name="Guardian 24-5-2012" /><ref name="Independent 4-6-2012">{{cite news|last1=Akbar|first1=Arifa|title=A whole new chapter for the Penguin English Library|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/a-whole-new-chapter-for-the-penguin-english-library-7814475.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/a-whole-new-chapter-for-the-penguin-english-library-7814475.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|website=Independent}}</ref>
Most, if not all, titles were reprinted as Penguin Classics following the merger of the two imprints in the mid 1980s. Some of these editions were superseded in the 1990s or later,<ref name="Hatching Classics">{{cite book|author1=Andrew Sanders|authorlink1=Hatching Classics|editor1-last=Wooten|editor1-first=William|editor2-last=Donaldson|editor2-first=George|title=Reading Penguin: A Critical Anthology|isbn=1443850829|page=112}}</ref> while some continue to be reprinted today as Classics. Additionally, the introductions to some titles survive in present-day Penguin Classics as appendices – for example, Tony Tanner's introduction to ''Mansfield Park''.
=== 2012 to present === The imprint was resurrected in name, though not so much in spirit, in 2012. Texts published in the series no longer include critical apparatus; they instead feature an essay by a notable literary figure, usually excerpted from prior work - for example, the essays of [[Harold Bloom]], [[V. S. Pritchett]] and [[John Sutherland (author)|John Sutherland]] have been featured.<ref name="Independent 4-6-2012" /> A portrait or photograph of the author remains printed on the inside of the front cover.<ref name="Independent 4-6-2012" /> The focus is now on cover art, with each title designed by [[Coralie Bickford-Smith]].<ref name="Independent 4-6-2012" />
== List of English Library titles == This is an incomplete list of the titles in the Penguin English Library:{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
=== 1963 to 1986 === All titles listed below are assumed to have lists of further reading appended and/or are no longer in print having been superseded by new editions, unless stated.
{| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Author !! Editor !! Title !! Series no. !! Notes |- | [[Matthew Arnold]] || P. J. Keating || Selected Prose || 58 || Still in print as a Penguin Classic titled ''Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose'' (2015).<ref name="Peter Keating">{{cite web|last1=Keating|first1=Peter|title=What's new|url=http://pjkeating.co.uk/whatsnew.php|website=Peter Keating: Author and vegetarian cook|accessdate=23 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="Arnold Penguin Classics">{{cite web|title=Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33952/culture-and-anarchy-and-other-selected-prose/9780141396248/|website=Penguin UK|publisher=Penguin|accessdate=23 June 2017}}</ref> |- | [[John Aubrey]] || Oliver Lawson Dick || [[Brief Lives|Aubrey's Brief Lives]] || 79 || |- | [[Jane Austen]] || [[Ronald Blythe]] || [[Emma (novel)|Emma]] || 10 || |- | [[Jane Austen]] || [[Margaret Drabble]] || [[Lady Susan]]/[[The Watsons]]/[[Sanditon]] || 102 || |- | [[Jane Austen]] || Tony Tanner || [[Mansfield Park]] || 16 || Tanner's introduction to the novel is reprinted as an appendix in the 2003 Penguin Classics edition.<ref name="MP Penguin Classics ed">{{cite book|last1=Austen|first1=Jane|title=Mansfield Park|date=2003|publisher=Penguin Classics|isbn=9780141439808|pages=440–465}}</ref> |- | [[Jane Austen]] || Anne Henry Ehrenpreis || [[Northanger Abbey]] || 74 || Does not include a bibliography. |- | [[Jane Austen]] || D. W. Harding || [[Persuasion (novel)|Persuasion]] || 5 || |- | [[Jane Austen]] || Tony Tanner || [[Pride and Prejudice]] || 72 || |- | [[Jane Austen]] || Tony Tanner || [[Sense and Sensibility]] || 47 || |- | [[James Boswell]] || [[Christopher Hibbert]] || [[Life of Samuel Johnson|The Life of Samuel Johnson]] || 116 || |- | [[Charlotte Brontë]] || [[Q. D. Leavis]] || [[Jane Eyre]] || 11 || |- | [[Charlotte Brontë]] || [[Andrew Hook|Andrew]] and Judith Hook || [[Shirley (novel)|Shirley]] || 95 || |- | [[Charlotte Brontë]] || Tony Tanner (introduction)<br />Mark Lilly || [[Villette (novel)|Villette]] || 118 || |- | [[Emily Brontë]] || [[David Daiches]] || [[Wuthering Heights]] || 1 || |- | [[Thomas Browne]] || [[C. A. Patrides]] || The Major Works || 109 || |- | [[Edmund Burke]] || [[Conor Cruise O'Brien]] || [[Reflections on the Revolution in France]] || Unknown || Still in print as a Penguin Classic. |- | [[John Bunyan]] || [[Roger Sharrock]] || [[The Pilgrim's Progress]] || 4 || Reprinted with revisions as a Penguin Classic in 1987. |- | [[Samuel Butler (novelist)|Samuel Butler]] || Peter Mudford || [[Erewhon]] || 57 || |- | [[Samuel Butler (novelist)|Samuel Butler]] || [[Richard Hoggart]] (introduction)<br />James Cochrane || [[The Way of All Flesh]] || 12 || |- | [[Lord Byron]] || Peter Gunn || Selected Prose || 80 || |- | [[Thomas Carlyle]] || Alan Shelston || Selected Writings || 65 || |- | [[Marcus Clarke]] || [[Stephen Murray-Smith]] || [[For the Term of His Natural Life|His Natural Life]] || 51 || |- | [[William Cobbett]] || George Woodcock || [[Rural Rides]] || 23 || |- | [[Wilkie Collins]] || [[J. I. M. Stewart]] || [[The Moonstone]] || 14 || |- | [[Wilkie Collins]] || [[Julian Symons]] || [[The Woman in White (novel)|The Woman in White]] || 96 || |- | [[Daniel Defoe]] || [[Anthony Burgess]] (introduction)<br />Christopher Bristow || [[A Journal of the Plague Year]] || 15 || |- | [[Daniel Defoe]] || Pat Rogers || [[A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain|A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain]] || 66 || |- | [[Daniel Defoe]] || [[Juliet Mitchell]] || [[Moll Flanders]] || 107 || |- | [[Daniel Defoe]] || Angus Ross || [[Robinson Crusoe]] || 7 || |- | [[Thomas De Quincey]] || [[Alethea Hayter]] || [[Confessions of an English Opium Eater]] || 61 || |- | [[Thomas De Quincey]] || [[David Wright (poet)|David Wright]] || [[Recollections of the Lake Poets|Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets]] || 56 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || [[George Woodcock]] || [[A Tale of Two Cities]] || 54 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || John S. Whitley<br />Arnold Goldman || [[American Notes for General Circulation]] || 77 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || Gordon Spence || [[Barnaby Rudge]] || 90 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || [[J. Hillis Miller]] (introduction)<br />Norman Page || [[Bleak House]] || 63 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || Trevor Blount || [[David Copperfield]] || 8 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || [[Raymond Williams]] (introduction)<br />Peter Fairclough || [[Dombey and Son]] || 48 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || [[Angus Calder]] || [[Great Expectations]] || 3 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || David Craig || [[Hard Times (novel)|Hard Times]] || 42 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || [[John Holloway (poet)|John Holloway]] || [[Little Dorrit]] || 25 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || [[P. N. Furbank]] || [[Martin Chuzzlewit]] || 31 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || Michael Slater || [[Nicholas Nickleby]] || 113 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || [[Angus Wilson]] (introduction)<br />Peter Fairclough || [[Oliver Twist]] || 17 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || Stephen Gill || [[Our Mutual Friend]] || 60 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || Deborah A. Thomas || Selected Short Fiction || 103 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || Michael Slater || The Christmas Books, Volume 1 (''[[A Christmas Carol]]''/''[[The Chimes]]'')|| 68 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || Michael Slater || The Christmas Books, Volume 2 (''[[The Cricket on the Hearth]]''/''[[The Battle of Life]]''/''[[The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain|The Haunted Man]]'')|| 69 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || [[Angus Wilson]] (introduction)<br /> Arthur J. Cox || [[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]] || 92 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || Malcolm Andrews (introduction)<br />Angus Easson || [[The Old Curiosity Shop]] || 75 || |- | [[Charles Dickens]] || Robert Patten || [[The Pickwick Papers]] || 78 || |- | [[Benjamin Disraeli]] || Thom Braun || [[Coningsby]] || 192 || |- | [[Benjamin Disraeli]] || Thom Braun (text and notes)<br />[[Rab Butler]] (introduction) || [[Sybil (novel)|Sybil; or, The Two Nations]] || 134 || |- | [[George Eliot]] || Unknown || [[Adam Bede]] || 121 || |- | [[George Eliot]] || [[Barbara Hardy (literary scholar)|Barbara Hardy]] || [[Daniel Deronda]] || 20 || |- | [[George Eliot]] || Peter Coveney || [[Felix Holt]] || 84 || |- | [[George Eliot]] || W. J. Harvey || [[Middlemarch]] || 2 || |- | [[George Eliot]] || [[A. S. Byatt]] || [[Mill on the Floss]] || 120 || |- | [[George Eliot]] || Andrew Sanders || [[Romola]] || 139 || |- | [[George Eliot]] || [[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]] || [[Scenes of Clerical Life]] || 87 || |- | [[George Eliot]] || [[Q. D. Leavis]] || [[Silas Marner]] || 30 || |- | [[Henry Fielding]] || R. F. Brissenden || [[Joseph Andrews]] || 114 || |- | [[Henry Fielding]] || R. P. C. Mutter || [[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling|Tom Jones]] || 9 || |- | [[John Ford (dramatist)|John Ford]] || Stephen Gill || Three Plays (''[['Tis Pity She's a Whore]]''/''[[The Broken Heart]]''/''[[Perkin Warbeck (play)|Perkin Warbeck]]'') || 59 || |- | [[Elizabeth Gaskell]] || Peter Keating || [[Cranford (novel)|Cranford]]/[[Cousin Phillis]] || 104 || |- | [[Elizabeth Gaskell]] || Stephen Gill || [[Mary Barton]] || 53 || |- | [[Elizabeth Gaskell]] || Dorothy Collin<br />Martin Dodsworth || [[North and South (Gaskell novel)|North and South]] || 55 || |- | [[Elizabeth Gaskell]] || Alan Shelston || [[The Life of Charlotte Brontë]] || 99 || |- | [[Elizabeth Gaskell]] || Frank Glover Smith || [[Wives and Daughters]] || 46 || |- | [[George Gissing]] || [[Bernard Bergonzi]] || [[New Grub Street]] || 32 || |- | [[Richard Hakluyt]] || [[Jack Beeching]] || Voyages and Discoveries || 73 || |- | [[Thomas Hardy]] || [[C. H. Sisson]] || [[Jude the Obscure]] || 131 || |- | [[Thomas Hardy]] || [[Susan Hill]] || The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales || 124 || |- | [[Thomas Hardy]] || [[Ronald Blythe]] || [[Far from the Madding Crowd]] || 126 || |- | [[Thomas Hardy]] || [[Martin Seymour-Smith]] || [[The Mayor of Casterbridge]] || 125 || |- | [[Thomas Hardy]] || [[George Woodcock]] || [[The Return of the Native]] || 122 || |- | [[Thomas Hardy]] || [[A. Alvarez]] (introduction)<br />David Skilton (editor) || [[Tess of the D'Urbervilles]] || 135 || |- | [[Thomas Hardy]] || [[David Wright (poet)|David Wright]] || [[Under the Greenwood Tree]] || 123 || |- | [[William Hazlitt]] || [[Ronald Blythe]] || Selected Writings || 50 || |- | [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] || Thomas E. Connolly (introduction and notes) || [[The Scarlet Letter]] and Selected Tales || 52 || The text of ''The Scarlet Letter'' is that of the authoritative Centenary Works edition, published by Ohio State University Press. Connolly's notes and the text are still included in the updated Penguin Classics edition, which has excised the tales and replaced his introduction with one by [[Nina Baym]]. |- | [[Henry James]] || [[Anthony Samuel Curtis|Anthony Curtis]] || [[The Aspern Papers]] and [[The Turn of the Screw]] || Unknown || Still in print as a Penguin Classic. |- | [[Samuel Johnson]] || [[Patrick Cruttwell]] || Selected Writings || 33 || |- | [[Samuel Johnson]] || [[D. J. Enright]] || [[The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia]] || 108 || |- | [[Ben Jonson]] || Michael Jamieson || Three Comedies (''[[Volpone]]''/''[[The Alchemist (play)|The Alchemist]]''/''[[Bartholomew Fair]]'') || 13 || |- | [[Thomas Malory]] || John Lawlor (introduction)<br />Janet Cowen || [[Le Morte d'Arthur]], Volume 1 || 43 || |- | [[Thomas Malory]] || John Lawlor (introduction)<br />Janet Cowen || [[Le Morte d'Arthur]], Volume 2 || 44 || |- | [[Christopher Marlowe]] || [[J. B. Steane]] || The Complete Plays || 37 || |- | [[Charles Maturin]] || [[Alethea Hayter]] || [[Melmoth the Wanderer]] || 110 || |- | [[Herman Melville]] || Harold Beaver || Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories || 29 || |- | [[Herman Melville]] || Harold Beaver || [[Moby-Dick]] || 82 || |- | [[Herman Melville]] || Harold Beaver || [[Redburn]] || 105 || |- | [[Herman Melville]] || [[George Woodcock]] || [[Typee]] || 70 || |- | [[George Meredith]] || [[George Woodcock]] || [[The Egoist (novel)|The Egoist]] || 34 || |- | [[John Milton]] || [[C. A. Patrides]] || Selected Prose || 91 || |- | [[William Morris]] || [[Asa Briggs]] || [[News from Nowhere]] and Selected Writings and Designs || 115 || |- | [[Thomas Nashe]] || [[J. B. Steane]] || The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works || 67 || Still in print as a Penguin Classic. |- | [[Thomas Love Peacock]] || Raymond Wright || [[Nightmare Abbey]] and [[Crotchet Castle]] || 45 || Does not include a bibliography ''per se'', but an editorial note is appended to the introduction, giving a brief list of editions and criticism. Still in print as a Penguin Classic. |- | [[Edgar Allan Poe]] || [[David Galloway (writer)|David Galloway]] || Selected Writings || 28 || |- | [[Edgar Allan Poe]] || Harold Beaver || [[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket]] || 97 || |- | [[Edgar Allan Poe]] || Harold Beaver || The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe || 106 || |- | [[Walter Scott]] || [[A. N. Wilson]] || [[Ivanhoe]] || 143 || |- | [[Walter Scott]] || [[Angus Calder]] || [[Old Mortality]] || 98 || |- | [[Walter Scott]] || || [[The Heart of Mid-Lothian]] || 129 || |- | [[Walter Scott]] || [[Andrew Hook]] || [[Waverley (novel)|Waverley]] || 71 || |- | [[Philip Sidney]] || Maurice Evans || [[The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia|Arcadia]] || 111 || |- | [[Tobias Smollett]] || Angus Ross || [[Humphry Clinker]] || 21 || |- | [[Laurence Sterne]] || [[A. Alvarez]] (introduction) || [[A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy|A Sentimental Journey]] || 26 || |- | [[Laurence Sterne]] || [[Christopher Ricks]] (introduction)<br />[[Graham Petrie (writer)|Graham Petrie]] || [[Tristram Shandy]] || 19 || Ricks's introductory essay is reprinted in the current Penguin Classics edition. |- | [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] || [[Jenni Calder]] || [[Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]] and Other Stories || 117 || |- | [[Jonathan Swift]] || [[Michael Foot]] (introduction)<br />Peter Dixon and John Chalker (notes) || [[Gulliver's Travels]] || 22 || |- | [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] || [[John Sutherland (author)|John Sutherland]]<br />Michael Greenfield || [[The History of Henry Esmond]] || 49 || |- | [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] || [[J. I. M. Stewart]] (introduction)<br />Donald Hawes || [[Pendennis|The History of Pendennis]] || 76 || |- | [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] || [[J. I. M. Stewart]] || [[Vanity Fair (novel)|Vanity Fair]] || 35 || |- | [[Edward John Trelawny]] || David Wright || Records of Shelley, Byron and The Author || 88 || |- | [[Anthony Trollope]] || Stephen Wall || [[Can You Forgive Her?]] || 86 || |- | [[Anthony Trollope]] || [[John Sutherland (author)|John Sutherland]] || [[Phineas Finn]] || 85 || |- | [[Anthony Trollope]] || [[John Sutherland (author)|John Sutherland]]<br />Stephen Gill || [[The Eustace Diamonds]] || 41 || |- | [[Anthony Trollope]] || [[Laurence Lerner]] (introduction)<br />Peter Fairclough || [[The Last Chronicle of Barset]] || 24 || |- | [[Anthony Trollope]] || [[John William Ward (professor)|John William Ward]] (introduction)<br />Robert Mason || [[North America (Trollope)|North America]] || 38 || |- | [[Mark Twain]] || [[Justin Kaplan]] || [[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]] || 64 || |- | [[Mark Twain]] || [[Malcolm Bradbury]] || [[Pudd'nhead Wilson]] || 40 || |- | [[Mark Twain]] || Peter Coveney || [[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]] || 18 || |- | [[John Webster]] || D. C. Gunby || Three Plays (''[[The White Devil]]''/''[[The Duchess of Malfi]]''/''[[The Devil's Law Case]]'') || 81 || |- | [[Gilbert White]] || [[Richard Mabey]] || [[The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne|The Natural History of Selborne]] || 112 || |- | [[Oscar Wilde]] || [[Hesketh Pearson]] || [[De Profundis (letter)|De Profundis]] and Other Writings || 89 || |- | [[Richard Steele]] and [[Joseph Addison]] || Angus Ross || Selections from [[Tatler (1709 journal)|The Tatler]] and [[The Spectator (1711)|The Spectator]] || 130 || |- | || Gāmini Salgādo || Cony-Catchers and Bawdy Baskets || 83 || |- | || Peter Happé || [[Morality play|Four Morality Plays]] (''[[The Castle of Perseverance]]''/''Magnyfycence''/''[[King Johan]]''/''[[A Satire of the Three Estates|Ane satire of the thrie estaitis]]'') || 119 || |- | || Peter Happé || [[Mystery play|English Mystery Plays]] || 93 || |- | || Keith Sturgess || Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies (''[[Arden of Faversham]]''/''[[A Yorkshire Tragedy]]''/''[[A Woman Killed with Kindness]]'') || 39 || |- | || Peter Happé || Tudor Interludes || 62 || |- | [[Cyril Tourneur]]<br />[[John Webster]]<br />[[Thomas Middleton]] || Gāmini Salgādo || Three Jacobean Tragedies (''[[The Revenger's Tragedy]]''/''[[The White Devil]]''/''[[The Changeling (play)|The Changeling]]'') || 6 || Authorship of ''[[The Revenger's Tragedy]]'' (which was published anonymously) was then attributed to Tourneur; today it is generally thought to have been written by Middleton.<ref name="Maus">{{cite book|last1=Maus|first1=Katharine|title=Four Revenge Tragedies|date=1998|publisher=Oxford World's Classics|location=Oxford|isbn=0192838784|page=i}}</ref> |- | [[George Etherege|Sir George Etherege]]<br />[[William Wycherley]]<br />[[William Congreve]] || Gāmini Salgādo || Three Restoration Comedies (''[[The Man of Mode]]''/''[[The Country Wife]]''/''[[Love for Love]]'') || 27 || Still in print as a Penguin Classic. |- | [[John Marston (playwright)|John Marston]]<br />[[Thomas Middleton]]<br />[[Ben Jonson]]<br />[[Philip Massinger]] || Gāmini Salgādo || [[City comedy|Four Jacobean City Comedies]] (''[[The Dutch Courtesan]]''/''[[A Mad World, My Masters]]''/''[[The Devil Is an Ass]]''/''[[A New Way to Pay Old Debts]]'')|| 101 || |- |[[Horace Walpole]]<br />[[William Thomas Beckford|William Beckford]]<br />[[Mary Shelley]] || [[Mario Praz]] (introduction) || Three Gothic Novels (''[[The Castle of Otranto]]''/''[[Vathek]]''/''[[Frankenstein]]'') || 36 || Still in print as a Penguin Classic. The text of ''Frankenstein'' is that of the revised 1832 edition. <br /> The cover art is a detail from [[Henry Fuseli|J. H. Fuseli]]'s 1781 oil painting ''[[The Nightmare]]'', and the detail was retained when the book was first reprinted as a Penguin Classic in 1986. However, reprints from 2003 onwards<ref name="Penguin anniversary">{{cite web|last1=Patton|first1=Phil|title=Reflections on a Penguin-iversary|url=https://www.aiga.org/reflections-on-a-penguin-iversary|website=AIGA|accessdate=8 April 2018}}</ref> feature the detail of a photograph by [[Simon Marsden|Sir Simon Marsden]] instead.<ref name="3GN post 03 cover">{{cite web|title=Back cover of Three Gothic Novels (Classics, 2003)|url=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91XbYTkInfL.jpg}}</ref> |}
=== 2012 to present === {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Author !! Title !! Essayist !! Essay !! Notes |- |[[Elizabeth von Arnim]] || [[Elizabeth and Her German Garden]] || || || |- | [[Jane Austen]] || [[Persuasion (novel)|Persuasion]] || [[Elizabeth Bowen]] || Unknown || |- |[[Jane Austen]] || [[Pride and Prejudice]] || [[ J. B. Priestley]] || Austen Portrays a Small World with Humour and Detachment || |- | [[Charlotte Brontë]] || [[Jane Eyre]] || [[Elaine Showalter]] || Jane Eyre || The essay is from Showalter's ''A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing'' (Princeton: [[Princeton University Press]], 1977) |- | [[Emily Brontë]] || [[Wuthering Heights]] || [[Virginia Woolf]] || Wuthering Heights || |- |[[Lewis Carroll]] || [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]] || [[Virginia Woolf]] || Lewis Carroll || |- | [[GK Chesterton|G. K. Chesterton]] || [[The Man Who Was Thursday]] || Unknown || Unknown || |- | [[Wilkie Collins]] || [[The Moonstone]] || [[T. S. Eliot]] || The Moonstone || |- | [[Daniel Defoe]] || [[Robinson Crusoe]] || [[David Blewett]] || The Island and the World || The essay is taken from a chapter in Blewett's ''Defoe's Art of Fiction: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and Roxana'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979). |- | [[George Eliot]] || [[Silas Marner]] || || || Correspondence between John Blackwood and George Eliot, and two contemporary reviews |- | [[Henry Fielding]] || [[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling|Tom Jones]] || R. P. C. Mutter || Tom Jones || The essay is a reprint of Mutter's introduction to the original Penguin English Library edition (see above). |- |[[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] || [[The Great Gatsby]] || || || |- | [[Elizabeth Gaskell]] || [[North and South (Gaskell novel)|North and South]] || [[V. S. Pritchett]] || The South Goes North || The essay is from Sir Victor's 1942 collection of essays, ''In My Good Books''. |- | [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] || [[The Scarlet Letter]] || [[D. H. Lawrence]] || Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter || The essay is from Lawrence's [[Studies in Classic American Literature]]. |- | [[James Joyce]] || [[Dubliners]] || || || |- | [[Katherine Mansfield]] || [[The Garden Party (short story collection)|The Garden Party]] || || || |- | [[Baroness Orczy]] || [[The Scarlet Pimpernel]] || || || |- | [[George Orwell]] || [[Animal Farm]] || || || |- | [[Walter Scott]] || [[Ivanhoe]] || [[A. N. Wilson]] || Ivanhoe || |- | [[Mary Shelley]] || [[Frankenstein]] || Paul Cantor || The Nightmare of Romantic Idealism || The text is that of the 1985 Penguin Classics edition, edited by Maurice Hindle, i. e. the 1832 text. The essay is taken from a chapter in Cantor's book, ''Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English Romanticism'' (Cambridge and New York: [[Cambridge University Press]], 1985). |- | [[Laurence Sterne]] || [[Tristram Shandy]] || [[V. S. Pritchett]] || Tristram Shandy || |- | [[Bram Stoker]] || [[Dracula]] || [[John Sutherland (author)|John Sutherland]] || Why Does the Count Come to England? || The essay is taken from Sutherland's ''Is Heathcliff a Murderer? Great Puzzles in Nineteenth Century Fiction'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). |- | [[Mark Twain]] || [[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]] || [[Harold Bloom]] || Unknown || |- | [[Evelyn Waugh]] || [[Brideshead Revisited]] || || || |- | [[Oscar Wilde]] || [[The Picture of Dorian Gray]] || [[Peter Ackroyd]] || - || The essay is a reprint of Ackroyd's introduction to the first Penguin Classics edition. |}
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