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A landmark American domestic novel of childhood, faith, separation, discipline, and emotional endurance.

A major eighteenth-century novel of courtship, family pressure, youthful error, money, reputation, and social judgment.

An influential early Gothic romance of inheritance, hidden crime, family honor, and supernatural justice.

A sequence of historical tales where English history, folklore, childhood, landscape, and memory meet.

A pioneering detective novel of murder, inheritance, evidence, suspicion, and courtroom-style investigation.

A landmark Gothic romance of flight, ruined abbeys, persecution, secrecy, and emotional suspense.

A sensational Victorian bestseller about literary fame, temptation, wealth, publishing, morality, and the devil.

Mary Shelley’s historical novel of medieval Italy, political ambition, republican ideals, love, and moral conflict.

A visionary romance of the future, pastoral utopia, altered society, and ecological imagination.

A radical Enlightenment argument on justice, reason, government, property, and human improvement.

A historical novel of Alexandria, philosophy, faith, political conflict, and late antique crisis.

A witty collection of comic essays on idleness, vanity, love, work, memory, and daily life.

A reform-minded Victorian novel about prison abuse, emigration, injustice, and moral recovery.

An English edition of Li Yu’s classic essays on theatre, taste, garden life, pleasure, and daily art.

Walter Pater’s philosophical historical novel of Roman culture, aesthetic experience, and spiritual searching.

John Muir’s luminous Sierra journal, joining field observation, wilderness travel, and natural history.

Virginia Woolf’s playful, time-spanning novel of identity, biography, gender, and literary history.

A stylish cycle of gentleman-thief stories introducing A. J. Raffles, cricket hero and burglar.

A sharp Anglo-Irish novel about estate duty, social ambition, inheritance, and national belonging.

A comic classic of suburban respectability, social embarrassment, and everyday self-importance.

Comic legends, ghost stories, and verse tales rich in parody, folklore, and Victorian wit.

An early American sentimental novel of seduction, family secrecy, moral danger, and social reputation.

A public-domain classic on knowledge, education, scholarship, scientific method, inquiry, and the reform of learning.

A public-domain classic on prison writing, suffering, love, humiliation, art, and spiritual reckoning.