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A luminous memory novel of immigrant childhood, prairie labor, friendship, desire, and American place.

A prairie novel of land, family duty, immigrant endurance, and Alexandra Bergson’s hard-won vision.

Naturalist short fiction of shipwreck, war, fear, chance, urban hardship, and human endurance.

Conrad’s sea tale of first command, fire, danger, memory, imperial routes, and youthful illusion.

A public-domain original edition centered on goblin fruit, sisterhood, temptation, rescue, devotion, mortality, and Victorian lyric music.

A public-domain original edition centered on the origin of Tarzan, jungle survival, lost inheritance, language, identity, adventure, and early pulp fiction.

A public-domain original edition centered on Lambert Strether’s Paris mission, American innocence, European society, moral perception, missed chances, and James’s late style.

A public-domain original edition centered on Egdon Heath, Eustacia Vye, Clym Yeobright, marriage, longing, provincial custom, and Hardy’s tragic Wessex imagination.

A public-domain original edition centered on desire, marriage, loneliness, social masks, dinner-table unease, and Mansfield’s precise modernist short fiction.

A public-domain original edition centered on Jacob Flanders, absence, memory, youth, rooms, letters, war, and Woolf’s early experimental modernism.

A public-domain original edition centered on modernist short stories of class, childhood, family tension, servants, illness, and sudden emotional revelation.

A social novel about love, class pressure, family duty, and a woman judged by public convention.

A searching American novel of faith, ambition, temptation, and intellectual disillusionment.

A sharp novel of railroads, finance, political favors, and ruthless ambition in American capitalism.

Henry James’s late novel of marriage, perception, hidden betrayal, and psychological strategy.

A Roman romance of art, innocence, secrecy, and guilt by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A realist portrait of business success, social aspiration, and moral testing in Gilded Age Boston.

A complex novel of inheritance, illness, love, and moral calculation in London and Venice.

A tightly shaped New York novel about inheritance, courtship, parental control, and quiet resistance.

A political Gothic novel of pursuit, secrecy, class power, surveillance, and the machinery of justice.

A social novel of inheritance, guardianship, manners, marriage, money, and Cecilia Beverley’s independence.

George Eliot’s late novel of Gwendolen Harleth, Daniel Deronda, identity, duty, marriage, and Jewish renewal.

A stark Bowery story of poverty, family violence, illusion, social judgment, and urban naturalism.

A naturalist San Francisco novel of greed, marriage, obsession, money, violence, and decline.