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"The Princess and the Goblin" is a children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald. Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid, Lootie, for company. Unknown to her, the nearby mines are inhabited by a race of goblins, long banished from the kingdom and now anxious to take revenge on their human neighbours. One rainy day, Irene explores the castle and discovers a beautiful, mysterious lady, who identifies herself as Irene's namesake and great-great-grandmother.

It deals with the lives of two sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, follows their stories from adolescence, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works.

The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories consists of twenty-two short stories written by Arnold Bennett, their main setting being the pottery manufacturing towns of the English midlands.

"The Moon and Sixpence" is a novel by William Somerset Maugham, based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told through the mindset and decisions of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist.

Zuleika Dobson depicts the undergraduate life at Oxford with a sense of humor and satire. This story includes the famous line "Death cancels all engagements" and presents a corrosive view of Edwardian Oxford. The Modern Library ranked Zuleika Dobson 59th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It was Beerbohm's only novel, but was nonetheless very successful.

"The Card" is a comic novel written by Arnold Bennett. Like many of Bennett's best works, it is set in the Potteries District of Staffordshire. It chronicles the rise of Edward Henry ("Denry") Machin from washerwoman's son to Mayor of Bursley (a fictitious town based on Burslem).

The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson that depicts the story of two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine.

This classic of English nature writing provides an entertaining account of the life of a gamekeeper in southern England during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Max Carrados is a blind detective who compensates by making astonishing use of his remaining senses, to the extent that people around him are often unaware of his blindness. Carrados enjoys the excitement of revealing his explanations of mysteries through powers of perception, which in his case are significantly heightened. The Max Carrados stories appeared alongside Sherlock Holmes in the Strand Magazine, in which they often had top billing, and frequently outsold his eminent contemporary at the time.

The Irish R.M. is a series of books set in the turn-of-the-20th-century west of Ireland. The humor in this audiobook is greatly enhanced if the listener has a broad understanding of the history of Ireland's relationship with England, and how Ireland was governed, as well as the Irish country way of life. The show isn't political, although caricatures of Irish and British people are used for the benefits of humorous purposes.

Denry Machin is now in his forties and begins to feel that he is getting old, that making money and a happy home life are not enough for him and that he has lost his touch as the entrepreneur and entertainer of the 'Five Towns'.

"The Prisoner of Zenda" depicts an adventurous story in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation, and thus is unable to attend the ceremonial proceedings. Political forces within the realm are such, that, for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, who resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy, in effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum. Of course, complications arise along the way.

Set several years the future, after a war between Germany and Great Britain in which the Germans won, "When William Came" chronicles life in London under German occupation and the changes that come with a foreign army's invasion and triumph. The "William" is actually Kaiser Wilhelm II of the House of Hohenzollern.

George Stephenson, known as "Father of the Railways" is considered as a genius in steam locomotive engineering. George and his son Robert worked very closely together and it is often difficult to separate their works. They both made remarkable contributions to development of railway.

This novel comprises parts of romance, historical novel and horror story – depicting a young lady being offered as a prize in a bowling match, a wife-burning, highwaymen and a buried treasure.

The story of "Rupert of Hentzau" is set in the kingdom of Ruritania, in Germanic Middle Europe. There is Rudolf Elphberg, the dissolute absolute monarch of Ruritania; Rudolf Rassendyll, the English gentleman who had acted as his political decoy, being his distant cousin and look alike; Flavia, the princess, now queen; Rupert of Hentzau, the dashing well-born villain; Fritz von Tarlenheim, the loyal courtier. Queen Flavia, dutifully but unhappily married to her cousin Rudolf V, writes to her true love Rudolf Rassendyll.