Bücher auf Englisch

A selection of Byron's poetry, marked by romantic passion, irony, exile, heroism, and melancholy.

A classic reference work arranging English words by ideas, meanings, relations, and expression.

Chaucer's vivid pilgrimage collection of tales, voices, satire, devotion, humor, and social life.

The pioneering Gothic novel of inheritance, prophecy, terror, secret guilt, and haunted architecture.

Poe's Gothic masterpiece of decay, fear, family doom, and a house that seems alive.

A landmark detective story introducing Dupin's analytic mind and a shocking Paris mystery.

Poe's haunting poem of grief, memory, midnight visitation, and the word that will not leave.

Conrad's dark political novel of espionage, anarchism, betrayal, and private tragedy in London.

A tense psychological tale of obsession, murder, guilt, and an impossible heartbeat.

A Sherlock Holmes mystery of coded warnings, hidden violence, and a secret society's long shadow.

A comic river journey full of friendship, mishaps, digressions, and relaxed Victorian wit.

A playful, digressive comic novel that turns storytelling itself into its central adventure.

A children’s classic of imagination, hardship, kindness, dignity, and inner courage.

A landmark argument for women’s education, reason, equality, and civic dignity.

A lucid philosophical inquiry into knowledge, causation, probability, miracles, and human understanding.

A compact transatlantic novella of innocence, manners, judgment, and social ambiguity.

A stark New England tragedy of desire, silence, poverty, and irreversible choice.

A foundational work of political philosophy on authority, fear, covenant, and sovereignty.

A naturalist novel of ambition, desire, urban life, theatre, and social drift.

A brilliant satire of ambition, marriage, money, status, and American social mobility.

A sharp society novel of beauty, money, reputation, and social ruin.

A warm children’s classic of family loss, railway life, bravery, and generosity.

A sea adventure of coercion, survival, intellect, violence, and moral awakening.

A classic defense of utility, happiness, moral judgment, liberty, and social ethics.