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The penny dreadful that introduced Sweeney Todd, blending urban horror, crime, revenge, and sensational mystery.

Samuel Johnson’s influential moral essays on character, learning, ambition, grief, and literary judgment.

Coleridge’s classic blend of autobiography, poetic theory, philosophy, and Romantic literary criticism.

A landmark English epistolary novel about virtue, class, seduction, domestic power, and moral self-command.

A sharp Anglo-Irish novel of estate decline, unreliable narration, family power, and social change.

A witty epistolary campus novel about education, independence, gratitude, secrecy, and self-discovery.

A lively sequel of letters about orphan care, reform, friendship, stubborn affection, and practical idealism.

A sensation novel about marriage law, athletic culture, deception, inheritance, and social hypocrisy.

Edward Lear’s collected nonsense classics, including limericks, comic songs, alphabets, botany, and playful rhymes.

A powerful early twentieth-century novel on race, passing, music, identity, violence, and American society.

A major American artist novel about music, ambition, immigrant communities, landscape, discipline, and vocation.

A classic literature work on table-talk essays, humor, memory, books, society, and humane reflection.

A classic literature work on ancient and modern learning, literary pride, satire, libraries, and mock-heroic wit.

A classic literature work on New England faith, courtship, conscience, family feeling, and community life.

A classic literature work on lost-world adventure, survival, prehistoric danger, exploration, and pulp imagination.

A classic literature work on Texas frontier justice, outlaw country, danger, loyalty, and redemption.

A classic literature work on jungle adventure, espionage, lost treasure, travel, survival, and heroic return.

A monumental English Renaissance epic of holiness, virtue, chivalry, allegory, and political imagination.

A modern American novel of memory, scholarship, family tension, loss, and inward exile.

A Barsetshire novel of clergy, ambition, debt, politics, marriage, social pressure, and Trollope’s realist comedy.

Fielding’s comic road novel, rich in satire, mistaken dignity, social observation, travel, virtue, and eighteenth-century humor.

A compact adventure novel of South African politics, treasure, danger, imperial imagination, and Buchan’s brisk thriller style.

Kipling’s popular soldier poems of empire, barracks, battle, marching songs, slang, discipline, and comradeship.

A complete English collection of Everyman and early miracle plays, preserving the classic morality play in a fuller medieval-drama context.