Literature Books

A landmark psychological short story about confinement, medical authority, and a woman’s mind under pressure.

Kipling’s sea adventure about a spoiled boy reshaped by labor, danger, and fellowship on a fishing schooner.

Trollope’s comic cathedral-town novel of church politics, ambition, courtship, and social maneuvering.

A richly observed Victorian novel of family, inheritance, science, love, and provincial society.

A Palliser novel built around jewels, legal claims, social ambition, and moral slipperiness.

A sentimental children’s classic about innocence, inheritance, class, and transatlantic family identity.

The first Barsetshire novel, centered on conscience, charity, reform, journalism, and church income.

Molière’s comedy-ballet mocks social climbing, false refinement, teachers, money, and vanity.

Irving’s collection of European sketches, supernatural anecdotes, traveler’s tales, and comic observation.

A fast Molière farce of tricks, fathers, young lovers, servants, disguises, and comic beatings.

Marivaux’s elegant comedy of disguise, class, courtship, self-knowledge, and emotional testing.

Milton’s tragic poem on blindness, captivity, vocation, vengeance, and spiritual trial.

Twain’s time-travel satire sends American technology and democracy into Arthurian legend.

Twain’s dark novel of identity, race, fingerprints, switched infants, and Southern hypocrisy.

Beaumarchais’s brilliant social comedy of servants, aristocrats, desire, wit, and pre-Revolutionary tension.

A Leatherstocking adventure of scouting, war, loyalty, and romance around the Great Lakes frontier.

A Mark Twain story collection led by the famous Hadleyburg satire, with sketches on reputation, fraud, belief, and social comedy.

Hawthorne’s early story collection of Puritan shadows, moral allegory, and New England imagination.

A major Hawthorne collection featuring allegorical tales, historical sketches, and psychological shadows.

Hawthorne’s romance of utopian reform, desire, performance, and disillusionment in a communal experiment.

A Leatherstocking tale of frontier conflict, initiation, wilderness, and moral testing.

Cooper’s western Leatherstocking novel, closing Natty Bumppo’s life on the open plains.

A foundational Argentine romantic-political novel set amid dictatorship, exile, danger, and love.

鲁迅回忆性散文集，写童年、师友、家庭、旧教育与精神成长。