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Desire
Jul 24, 2026
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Unrequited / Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Emma
Lady Susan
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Economics for Helen
Agnes Grey
Jane Eyre
Shirley
The Professor
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Villette
Wuthering Heights
Alarms and Discursions
All I Survey
AllThingsConsidered 8
ApprAndCritOfChDickens
St. Thomas Aquinas
As I Was Saying
The Ball and the Cross
BalladStBarbara
carol
CharlesDickens
Christianity and Rationalism
Common Man
The Catholic Church and Conversion
Do We Agree?
dickens Britannica
The Superstition of Divorce
Don Quixote
Eugenics
The Everlasting Man
Fancies Versis Fads
FourFaultlessFelons
frenchenglish
GKC All is Grist
GKC-Autobiography
great-minimum
Heretics
A Short History of England
ILN-1930-04-19
The Innocence of Father Brown
intro-love-and-freindship
Irish Impressions
Introduction to the Book of Job
kingcole
logic
Tales of the Long Bow
Manalive
The Meaning of the Crusade
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Miscellany of Men
morality
MrPond
Napoleon of Notting Hill
New Jerusalem
On_Lying_In_Bed
Orthodoxy
Poems
Poet and Lunatics
The Club of Queer Trades
rash_vows
Robert Browning
Robert Louis Stevenson
rolling
runabbot
Sanity
secret Fr Brown
Shaw
Social_Reform_BC
Spice Of Life
St Francis
success
The Defendant
The Flying Inn
The Glass Walking Stick
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The_Persecution_of_Religion
The Speaker
The Thing
The Uses of Diversity
TheAppOfTyranny
TheCrimesOfEngland
To Frances
The Trees of Pride
Tremendous Trifles
Twelve Types
UtopiaUsurers
VariedTypes
Victorian Age
Well And Shallows
WhatISawInAmerica
What's Wrong with the World
The Wisdom of Father Brown
Wild Ducks
William Cobbett
WineWaterSong
The Ballad of the White Horse
A Child's History of England
A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities
American Notes
Barnaby Rudge
Bleak House
David Copperfield
Dombey and Son
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Little Dorrit
Martin Chuzzlewit
Nicholas Nickleby
Oliver Twist
Our Mutual Friend
Sketches by Boz
The Battle of Life
The Chimes
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Pickwick Papers
To “H. H.”
To Mrs. Todd, September, 1885
To Mrs. Todd, Mrs. Tuckerman, the Misses——, Mr. Clark, and Mrs. Currier
To Mrs. Todd, March 21, 1885
To the Rev. F. F. Emerson
To Mr. C. H. Clark, April 5, 1886
1640. Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy,
To Mrs. Currier, April 10, 1886
To Mr. and Mrs. George Montague
To Mrs. F.S. Cooper
To Mrs. Joseph Sweetser, Autumn, 1879?
To Mr. C. H. Clark
To Mr. Theodore Holland
Burnt Norton 1935
Little Gidding
THE HOLLOW MEN 1925
The Waste Land
Endymion - A Poetic Romance
Lamia
A Predicament
Berenice
Loss of Breath
Metzengerstein
The Assignation
The Balloon-Hoax
The Black Cat
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Gold-Bug
The Man of the Crowd
The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym (Raven Edition)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Poetic Principle
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade
The Unparalleled Adventures of one Hans Pfaall
William Wilson
The Mind of the Maker
Sonnet 154
2 HENRY IV
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
ALL IS TRUE - (HENRY VIII)
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
AS YOU LIKE IT
CORIOLANUS
CYMBELINE
EDWARD III
HAMLET
HENRY V
HENRY VI PART ONE
JULIUS CAESAR
KING JOHN
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
MACBETH
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
OTHELLO
PERICLES
RICHARD DUKE OF YORK - (3 HENRY VI)
RICHARD II
RICHARD III
ROMEO AND JULIET
SIR THOMAS MORE
THE FIRST PART OF THE CONTENTION - (2 HENRY VI)
THE HISTORY OF KING LEAR - THE QUARTO TEXT
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
THE TEMPEST
THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR - THE FOLIO TEXT
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN
THE WINTER’S TALE
TIMON OF ATHENS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
TWELFTH NIGHT
Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Birthday of the Infanta
The Fisherman and his Soul
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The Decay of Lying
Pen, Pencil and Poison
The Critic as Artist
The Truth of Masks
The Soul of Man under Socialism
De Profundis
A Woman of No Importance — Act 1 [1]
An Ideal Husband
Lady Windermere's Fan
Salome
The Importance of Being Earnest
Vera, or The Nihilists
AN ODE IN THE MANNER OF ANACREON
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
CATULLIAN HENDECASYLLABLES
From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
IMITATED FROM THE WELSH
KISSES
La Sainte Courtisane
Mr. Apollinax
O Hymen! O Hymenee!
O! Were I one of the Olympian twelve
Salome
Sonnets
Spontaneous Me
THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN
The Fisherman and his Soul
THE KISS
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE
The Sphinx
TO LESBIA
VARIOUS POEMS
VENUS AND ADONIS
Whispers of Immortality