The play 'Hedda Gabler' portrays an unhappily married woman who is unable to break free from the conventional life she has created for herself, with tragic results for her entire family. An introduction explores Ibsen's development as a dramatist and the language and psychology of his plays.

The first of Trollope's six Palliser novels, 'Can You Forgive Her?' explores the dilemma of Alice Vavasor, torn between two suitors, and the choices faced by two other independent women. The tensions within Victorian society highlighted by the plot are illuminated in the introduction and notes to this new edition.

Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70.

This play deals with the horror and futility of trench warfare, as Captain Stanhope and his officers await attack in their dugout.

Mr. Bennet's five eligible daughters will never inherit their father's money. Neither will their scatterbrained mother. The family fortunes are destined, in the absence of a male heir, to pass to a cousin, William Collins, a pompous parson. Should one of the daughters marry him? Or is there a chance for the rich empty-headed bachelor Charles Bingley? And what about the aristocratic and supercilious Fitzwilliam Darcy? Yet both these men seem less exciting...

One in the 'Penguin Classics' series, this is the first story about the March family, their friends and their lives. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - four sisters - enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England.