Libros en inglés

A madeleine, a remembered childhood, and the elusive workings of memory open Proust’s landmark novel cycle.

A new English translation opens Feng Menglong’s Ming-dynasty story collection, where desire, wit, justice, and sudden reversals shape everyday lives.

Three siblings discover a hidden garden, a sleeping princess, and a ring whose magic is less predictable than it seems.

Wilde’s fairy tales pair luminous, playful storytelling with sharp questions about poverty, kindness, beauty, and sacrifice.

A wish-granting carpet and a phoenix turn an ordinary family holiday into a brisk, funny adventure.

A substantial poetry collection tracing Keats’s sensuous language, classical imagination, and meditations on beauty and mortality.

At Elizabeth I’s court, Amy Robsart’s secret marriage to the ambitious Earl of Leicester becomes a perilous contest between love and power.

Samuel Smiles’s influential Victorian guide uses biographies of inventors, reformers, and workers to argue for perseverance and self-education.

A Norman knight, a Welsh heiress, and a kingdom in transition meet in Scott’s richly staged tale of loyalty and political change.

A reclusive outsider, a family feud, and a threatened wedding collide in Scott’s compact tale of injustice and revenge.

Isabella Beeton’s celebrated household manual combines recipes, menus, domestic advice, and practical guidance for running a Victorian home.

A secret courtship unfolds through poetry, wit, and intermediaries in Wang Shifu’s celebrated Yuan dynasty drama.

A wandering physician travels through late Qing China, witnessing local injustice and social decay with compassion and sharp political insight.

A domestic Christmas tale in which jealousy, mistaken appearances, and a mysterious visitor test the meaning of trust at home.

Sara Crewe’s imagination becomes her refuge when a privileged schoolgirl is suddenly treated as an orphaned servant.

Essays, anecdotes, and philosophical reflections unfold around an imaginary breakfast table, where ordinary conversation opens onto mind, memory, and society.

A murder trial exposes how racial classification, inherited privilege, and a single switch in infancy can overturn an entire community’s idea of identity.

Emma Bovary tries to live the passionate life promised by romantic fiction, while marriage, debt, desire, and provincial judgment close in around her.

A family inheritance brings two opposing temperaments together: generous idealism on one side, suspicion and self-righteousness on the other.

A country clergyman accused of theft becomes the center of a moral crisis involving conscience, reputation, poverty, and the judgment of a close-knit society.

When Gregor Samsa wakes transformed into an insect, his family’s dependence on his wages turns overnight into fear, shame, and abandonment.

At a troubled Scottish abbey, reform, superstition, political change, and romantic adventure collide as an old order begins to disappear.

Public-domain classic by Mencius: Mencius, a Chinese philosophy first published in -300.

Public-domain classic by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Beach of Falesá, a adventure fiction first published in 1893.