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Mary Shelley’s historical novel of medieval Italy, political ambition, republican ideals, love, and moral conflict.

A visionary romance of the future, pastoral utopia, altered society, and ecological imagination.

A historical novel of Alexandria, philosophy, faith, political conflict, and late antique crisis.

A witty collection of comic essays on idleness, vanity, love, work, memory, and daily life.

A reform-minded Victorian novel about prison abuse, emigration, injustice, and moral recovery.

An English edition of Li Yu’s classic essays on theatre, taste, garden life, pleasure, and daily art.

Walter Pater’s philosophical historical novel of Roman culture, aesthetic experience, and spiritual searching.

Virginia Woolf’s playful, time-spanning novel of identity, biography, gender, and literary history.

A stylish cycle of gentleman-thief stories introducing A. J. Raffles, cricket hero and burglar.

A sharp Anglo-Irish novel about estate duty, social ambition, inheritance, and national belonging.

A comic classic of suburban respectability, social embarrassment, and everyday self-importance.

Comic legends, ghost stories, and verse tales rich in parody, folklore, and Victorian wit.

An early American sentimental novel of seduction, family secrecy, moral danger, and social reputation.

A public-domain classic on prison writing, suffering, love, humiliation, art, and spiritual reckoning.

A public-domain classic on comic storytelling, adventure, verbal wit, nested tales, and elegant fantasy.

A public-domain classic on lost worlds, strange metallic intelligence, scientific romance, adventure, and cosmic mystery.

A public-domain classic on South American travel, romance, political unrest, landscape, and freedom.

A public-domain classic on love, secrecy, social pressure, memory, and psychological realism.

A Hardy novel of inheritance, architecture, modern technology, divided faith, romance, and uncertainty.

A satirical country-house novel of eccentric talkers, reform schemes, politics, learning, and comic argument.

Aphra Behn’s influential novella of slavery, colonial violence, honor, love, betrayal, and royal identity.

The first A. J. Raffles stories: gentleman burglary, friendship, sport, risk, disguise, and moral ambiguity.

A bold seventeenth-century utopian romance mixing science, empire, satire, gender, and speculative imagination.

A sensation novel of marriage, legal injustice, investigation, female agency, secrets, and courtroom memory.