Livres en anglais

A social novel of inheritance, guardianship, manners, marriage, money, and Cecilia Beverley’s independence.

George Eliot’s late novel of Gwendolen Harleth, Daniel Deronda, identity, duty, marriage, and Jewish renewal.

A stark Bowery story of poverty, family violence, illusion, social judgment, and urban naturalism.

A naturalist San Francisco novel of greed, marriage, obsession, money, violence, and decline.

Ruskin’s major defense of Turner and a sweeping study of landscape, truth, nature, imagination, and art.

An epistolary novel of virtue, power, class, persuasion, and the contested voice of Pamela Andrews.

George Eliot’s Florence novel of Romola, Tito Melema, Savonarola, marriage, conscience, and Renaissance politics.

Edna Pontellier’s search for selfhood, desire, art, motherhood, and freedom in Creole Louisiana.

Gibbon’s monumental history of Rome’s transformation, emperors, Christianity, war, politics, and empire.

Mary Shelley’s prophetic novel of plague, friendship, political collapse, memory, and the end of humanity.

Essays on Renaissance art, beauty, style, Leonardo, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and aesthetic experience.

A Victorian art classic on sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, and obedience in architecture.

A compressed sea tale of innocence, authority, mutiny fears, naval law, and tragic moral judgment.

A witty epistolary novel about a young woman entering London society, manners, courtship, and female reputation.

A Manchester social novel about factory life, poverty, labor conflict, grief, love, and moral responsibility.

A humane eighteenth-century novel of family trial, moral comedy, misplaced trust, poverty, and resilience.

A foundational Western novel of Wyoming ranch life, honor, romance, frontier law, and cowboy myth.

Melville’s South Seas narrative of escape, captivity, cultural encounter, desire, fear, and colonial imagination.

Charlotte Brontë’s early novel of self-making, teaching, Brussels, ambition, love, and moral independence.

A sharp London novel about authors, journalism, poverty, ambition, and the literary marketplace.

A landmark western of frontier justice, forbidden love, pursuit, and the vast Utah landscape.

A reflective autobiography of power, failure, history, technology, and American intellectual life.

A grim London novel of poverty, inheritance, family pressure, and moral injury among the working poor.

Unmarried women, work, marriage, and independence collide in a searching Victorian social novel.