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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.

John Muir’s luminous Sierra journal, joining field observation, wilderness travel, and natural history.

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 knowledge, education, scholarship, scientific method, inquiry, and the reform of learning.

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 Norse gods, heroes, sagas, Valhalla, Ragnarok, folklore, and mythology.

A public-domain classic on archaeology, prehistory, stone tools, human origins, and early material culture.

A public-domain classic on witchcraft, superstition, demonology, magic, law, folklore, and skepticism.

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 public-domain classic on individualism, art, poverty, freedom, charity, and social criticism.

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.