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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A Scottish adventure of betrayal, flight, friendship, and Jacobite danger after a stolen inheritance.

Twain’s Tudor tale swaps a beggar and a prince to test justice, power, class, and mercy.

Richardson’s monumental epistolary novel explores family pressure, coercion, virtue, reputation, and psychological conflict.

Dickens’s exuberant first novel follows Mr. Pickwick through comic travel, law, debt, friendship, and bustling English life.

A sharp social panorama centered on Becky Sharp, ambition, marriage markets, war, money, and moral performance.

A mathematical satire that imagines a two-dimensional world and the shock of higher dimensions.

A luminous memory novel of immigrant childhood, prairie labor, friendship, desire, and American place.

A prairie novel of land, family duty, immigrant endurance, and Alexandra Bergson’s hard-won vision.

Naturalist short fiction of shipwreck, war, fear, chance, urban hardship, and human endurance.

Conrad’s sea tale of first command, fire, danger, memory, imperial routes, and youthful illusion.

A public-domain original edition centered on goblin fruit, sisterhood, temptation, rescue, devotion, mortality, and Victorian lyric music.

A public-domain original edition centered on the origin of Tarzan, jungle survival, lost inheritance, language, identity, adventure, and early pulp fiction.

A public-domain original edition centered on Lambert Strether’s Paris mission, American innocence, European society, moral perception, missed chances, and James’s late style.

A public-domain original edition centered on Egdon Heath, Eustacia Vye, Clym Yeobright, marriage, longing, provincial custom, and Hardy’s tragic Wessex imagination.

A public-domain original edition centered on desire, marriage, loneliness, social masks, dinner-table unease, and Mansfield’s precise modernist short fiction.

A public-domain original edition centered on Jacob Flanders, absence, memory, youth, rooms, letters, war, and Woolf’s early experimental modernism.