Livres en anglais

Early Kipling stories of colonial India, sharp social observation, Anglo-Indian speech, ambition, loneliness, and irony.

A bold imperial adventure about two drifters, a remote kingdom, false divinity, ambition, and catastrophic overreach.

A Venetian novella of literary obsession, private papers, manipulation, aging, and the ethics of biography.

Faraday’s famous lectures explain flame, combustion, air, water, carbon, and scientific observation through a candle.

Taylor’s influential management classic on labor efficiency, time study, incentives, supervision, and industrial organization.

A compact American tale of sleep, folklore, revolution, village memory, and the strange cost of returning home.

Father Brown solves paradoxical crimes through moral insight, comic logic, theology, disguise, and human weakness.

A pastoral classic of fishing, riverside conversation, practical lore, songs, and contemplative leisure.

A dark Scottish classic of fanaticism, double identity, guilt, and psychological pursuit.

Personal essays rich in memory, humor, London life, reading, friendship, and gentle melancholy.

A major slave narrative tracing capture, Atlantic slavery, freedom, travel, faith, and abolition.

A classic sentimental novel about sympathy, moral feeling, poverty, illness, and social vulnerability.

A comic novel about romance reading, imagination, gender expectations, and social misunderstanding.

A witty Gothic satire of melancholy, Romantic excess, literary fashion, and philosophical gloom.

A sensational Gothic novel of temptation, secrecy, supernatural terror, and moral collapse.

A satirical rise-and-fall narrative of an Irish adventurer chasing fortune, marriage, rank, and European glamour.

Cooper’s frontier novel follows Templeton, Judge Temple, Natty Bumppo, and conflicts over land, law, settlement, and wilderness.

Hardy’s woodland novel studies love, class, marriage, rural labor, and emotional loss in the Wessex village of Little Hintock.

Thackeray’s historical novel follows Henry Esmond through family secrets, political conflict, war, and the age of Queen Anne.

Gaskell’s social novel confronts gender judgment, work, motherhood, religious conscience, and Victorian respectability.

Stevenson’s dark Scottish romance follows rival brothers, Jacobite intrigue, exile, piracy, and corrosive family obsession.

A swift historical adventure of disguise, rebellion, revenge, and divided loyalties during the Wars of the Roses.

Wharton’s intense rural novella follows Charity Royall through desire, class constraint, shame, and the limits of escape.

A coastal historical novel of love, press-gangs, Quaker witness, family loyalty, and wartime trauma in Yorkshire.