Literature Books

A bold seventeenth-century utopian romance mixing science, empire, satire, gender, and speculative imagination.

A sensation novel of marriage, legal injustice, investigation, female agency, secrets, and courtroom memory.

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.

Un grand roman européen sur l’Italie, le génie féminin, l’amour, l’exil, l’art et la société.

Ein brillantes Einakterspiel über Theater, Wirklichkeit, Revolution, Rollenspiel und gesellschaftliche Maske.

Una novela sobre aldea, minería, cambio social, memoria rural, amor y conflicto moderno.

Un relato clásico coreano sobre piedad filial, sacrificio, pobreza, milagro, ceguera y reconocimiento familiar.

Un roman colonial de Loti sur le Sénégal, le désir, l’armée, l’exotisme et la désillusion.

Un grand drame chinois sur amour, loyauté, chute des Ming, mémoire historique et destin politique.

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.

Un roman basque de Pierre Loti sur l’amour, la frontière, la contrebande, la foi et le départ.

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.

Poema épico luso-brasileiro sobre descobrimento, encontro cultural, heroísmo e imaginação colonial.