Livres en anglais

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

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

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.

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

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

Jack London’s dystopian political novel imagines oligarchy, class war, labor movements, repression, and revolutionary memory.

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

A daring James novel that sees divorce, adult selfishness, desire, and moral confusion through a child’s changing awareness.

Henry James’s American novel explores reform politics, public speech, feminism, rivalry, and emotional possession in Boston.

Defoe’s late novel follows Roxana through survival, wealth, disguise, sexuality, guilt, and social risk in early modern Europe.

Trollope’s parliamentary novel follows Phineas Finn through ambition, reform politics, society, love, and moral compromise.

E. Nesbit’s children’s fantasy sends five siblings into wish-making adventures with the strange sand-fairy Psammead.

The first Waverley novel follows Edward Waverley through Jacobite Scotland, divided loyalties, romance, and political rebellion.

Walter Scott’s medieval romance of knights, Saxons, Normans, tournaments, outlaw bands, and the return of Richard the Lionheart.

Melville’s South Seas novel follows desertion, island captivity, and comic encounters with colonial power in Tahiti.

English edition of Kafka’s modernist novel about Josef K., invisible accusation, bureaucratic nightmare, guilt, and law.

A Revolutionary War novel of espionage, divided loyalties, patriotism, and secret sacrifice.

An early American gothic novel of religious delusion, ventriloquism, fear, and family catastrophe.

Origin tales full of rhythm, wit, animals, invention, and Kipling’s playful storytelling voice.

A lucid analysis of cabinet government, monarchy, parliament, and Victorian political institutions.

A transatlantic novel about marriage, wealth, travel, American identity, and emotional reinvention.

Wordsworth’s great autobiographical poem on childhood, nature, imagination, memory, and poetic growth.

Bacon’s landmark statement of induction, experiment, observation, and modern scientific method.