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A politician’s account of ambition and an illicit relationship exposes the tension between public reform, private desire, and social respectability.

Jane Addams recounts Hull-House’s beginnings and the encounters with migration, poverty, education, and civic reform that shaped its work.

Li Bai's selected poems explore mountains, travel, wine, friendship, parting, ambition, and exile in a new English translation.

Diplomats and rulers debate alliances, warfare, persuasion, and political survival in the Eastern Zhou through Chu sections of Zhanguo Ce.

Mountains, seas, strange creatures, distant peoples, and ancient myths unfold across all eighteen chapters of the Chinese classic.

James contrasts monism and pluralism through lectures on experience, consciousness, Hegel, Fechner, and Bergson.

Gilman challenges familiar assumptions about childhood, discipline, motherhood, servants, and society's responsibility for raising children.

Jane Addams examines how democratic obligations reshape charity, family life, domestic service, industry, education, and political reform.

Hobson investigates industrial poverty, low wages, sweating, women's work, and proposed social remedies in Britain.

Seventeen Huxley essays address scientific learning, universities, medical training, school boards, technical education, and the place of culture.

Gilman's novel follows Vivian Lane from a New England community toward new choices about work, marriage, and health.

Hudson’s English walking essays find unexpected stories in village roads, old buildings, birds, landscapes, and encounters with strangers.

A neglected child grows up amid fashionable London society as Lord Coombe’s guarded interventions complicate appearances, loyalties, and love.

Lubbock considers happiness through friendship, books, travel, nature, art, work, and the deliberate use of everyday time.

Belloc examines wage dependence, concentrated property, and the political forces that might turn free workers into a legally dependent class.

Jane Addams explores how city streets, commercial entertainment, work, and community institutions shape young people’s hopes and conduct.

Gilman connects women’s economic dependence with marriage, domestic labor, childcare, and the organization of modern social life.

A young tenor’s musical ambitions and forbidden affection unfold through the recollections of the philosopher who raised him.

A woman returning to New England confronts class privilege, charitable ambitions and the difficult realities of workers’ lives.

Cooley explains how sympathy, selfhood and everyday relationships connect individual experience with the wider organization of society.

William James reflects on scientists, education, human energy and peace in essays combining personal recollection with psychological inquiry.

In a New England village, stubborn convictions and family loyalties threaten affection, marriage and the possibility of reconciliation.

Liang Qichao examines Li Hongzhang’s political career against the wars, diplomatic pressures and reform debates of the late Qing.

Tao Yuanming’s poetry and prose explore rural life, withdrawal from office and the search for an independent way of living.