George Orwell's timeless fable - a parable for would-be liberators everywhere, glimpsed through the lens of our own history.

Trollope combines humor with robust social commentary as he seizes on the great comic potential of the predicament of the Church of England in mid-Victorian society.

Henry V, which dates from 1599, is the last in Shakespeare's series of plays based on English history. It is also...

In this, the first volume of an epic history of Britain, one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day brings the birth and growth of a nation...

To look back at the past is to understand the present....

The second volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain brings the histories of Britain's civil wars...

Simon Schama's sweeping history of Britain breathes life into our past centuries, vividly depicting exactly what life was like for our ancestors....

Award-winning historian Simon Schama completes his monumental three-volume history of Britain, which accompanies the acclaimed television epic....

The triumphant conclusion of this engaging history of Great Britain stretches from the American Revolution to the present.

Excerpts from 33 plays, three poems, and well researched commentary about the bard and his literature.