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A Barsetshire novel of courtship, loyalty, ambition, family pressure, social position, and moral patience.

A brilliant Restoration comedy of wit, marriage bargaining, inheritance, manners, desire, and social performance.

An early space romance of planetary travel, scientific adventure, satire, empire, and cosmic imagination.

An early Hardy novel of love, hesitation, class mobility, rural Cornwall, and romantic misrecognition.

Stevenson’s sequel to Kidnapped, mixing Scottish history, legal peril, romance, exile, and adventure.

An early Alcott novel about marriage, temperament, self-knowledge, duty, desire, and emotional education.

A comic American childhood classic about mischief, imagination, family, school, status, and small-town life.

A tropical castaway romance about childhood, survival, innocence, nature, isolation, and awakening desire.

A children’s historical adventure of the English Civil War, survival, disguise, loyalty, and woodland life.

An Elizabethan prose romance of pastoral disguise, political counsel, love, virtue, rhetoric, and adventure.

A historical romance of Shetland, Norse memory, family rivalry, sea adventure, disguise, and passion.

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.