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Henry Fielding · English
Fielding’s searching novel of marriage, debt, virtue, and social pressure in eighteenth-century London.
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Henry Fielding · English
Fielding’s searching novel of marriage, debt, virtue, and social pressure in eighteenth-century London.

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John Galt · English
A quietly influential Scottish social novel told through a parish minister’s changing world.

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Thomas Love Peacock · English
A witty Robin Hood romance that blends medieval adventure with Peacock’s satirical intelligence.

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Maria Edgeworth · English
An Irish realist novel about education, character, inheritance, and moral independence.

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Samuel Butler · English
Butler’s sharp religious satire on apologetics, belief, evidence, and Victorian argument.

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Ann Radcliffe · English
A landmark Gothic romance of persecution, mystery, religious power, and suspenseful revelation.

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Lu Xun · English
A complete English edition of Lu Xun’s fiction, from modern Chinese awakening to moral crisis.

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Cao Xueqin · English
The first volume of China’s great family novel of love, poetry, decline, and illusion.

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Wu Cheng’en · English
The opening volume of the great Chinese mythic journey of Monkey, Tripitaka, and the road west.

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Pu Songling · English
The first English volume of Pu Songling’s ghostly, strange, romantic, and satirical tales.

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Liu Yiqing · English
An English edition of the celebrated Chinese anecdote collection on wit, character, conversation, and elite culture.

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Joseph Conrad · English
Conrad’s first novel of colonial ambition, family conflict, trade, and disillusion.

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W. H. Hudson · English
A luminous memoir of childhood, nature, memory, birds, landscape, and the Argentine pampas.

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Samuel Butler · English
A mock-heroic English satire of zeal, politics, argument, and Restoration wit.

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George Borrow · English
A roaming Victorian novel of roads, languages, books, outsiders, and English wanderings.

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J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur · English
A foundational portrait of early American identity, farming, immigration, slavery, and revolution.

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William Hope Hodgson · English
A sea-horror adventure of shipwreck, strange weed seas, monsters, and cosmic dread.

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Saki · English
A brilliant Edwardian story collection of wit, social mischief, satire, and dark comedy.

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Herman Melville · English
Melville’s riverboat satire of trust, fraud, commerce, and American self-invention.

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Joseph Conrad · English
A compact sea tale of command, storm, endurance, and unsentimental seamanship.

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Ji Kang · English
Writings of a Wei-Jin thinker on music, freedom, self-cultivation, friendship, and refusal.

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Shen Fu · English
A beloved autobiographical classic of marriage, travel, art, grief, and everyday beauty.

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Jack London · English
A Pacific story collection of adventure, colonial tension, shipboard danger, and London’s hard-edged naturalism.

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Jack London · English
A lively travel narrative following Jack London’s Pacific voyage, illness, curiosity, and appetite for risk.