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Lu Xun’s landmark modern Chinese story of paranoia, social violence, tradition, and awakening.

A major poetic meditation on human nature, providence, reason, order, and moral limitation.

A foundational essay on conscience, state power, tax resistance, and the moral limits of government.

A landmark conservative response to the French Revolution, tradition, reform, rights, and political order.

A lively eighteenth-century comedy of mistaken identity, courtship, class manners, and theatrical wit.

A major work of literary biography and criticism on English poets, taste, style, and reputation.

A sparkling comedy of language, romance, vanity, duels, and theatrical misunderstanding.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica is a public-domain classic of early modern science and skepticism.

The Book of Tea is a public-domain classic of tea culture, Japanese aesthetics, Taoism and Zen.

A Simple Story is a public-domain classic of feeling, restraint, family authority and moral consequence.

Belinda is a public-domain classic of society, education, courtship and women’s judgment.

Hope Leslie is a public-domain classic of colonial New England, conscience and female agency.

The Coquette is a public-domain classic of letters, reputation, desire and early American society.

A brilliant satire on books, religion, authorship, digression, and the noisy print culture of Swift’s age.

A sparkling comedy of reputation, gossip, marriage, hypocrisy, and social performance in fashionable London.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning American novel of class anxiety, family ambition, self-invention, and social embarrassment.

A lyrical children’s fantasy about Diamond, the North Wind, poverty, wonder, death, and consolation.

A political novel about youth, aristocracy, reform, party identity, and the future of Victorian Britain.

A public-domain Oscar Wilde poetry collection including The Ballad of Reading Gaol and earlier poems on beauty, desire, liberty, art, faith, and suffering.

A Victorian family novel of books, inheritance, domestic affection, learning, ambition, and comic observation.

A bestselling American sentimental novel of orphanhood, kindness, class mobility, education, and moral growth.

A Victorian bestseller of friendship, love, betrayal, conscience, and social judgment on the Isle of Man.

A bestselling historical romance of William Wallace, patriotism, heroism, loyalty, and Scottish resistance.

A vivid portrait gallery of Romantic-era writers, thinkers, politicians, critics, and public personalities.