Livres en anglais

Bacon’s program for organizing knowledge, reforming study, and advancing useful learning.

A powerful realist novel of ambition, desire, class pressure, crime, and moral collapse.

A sentimental children’s classic about innocence, inheritance, class, and transatlantic family identity.

A richly observed Victorian novel of family, inheritance, science, love, and provincial society.

Trollope’s comic cathedral-town novel of church politics, ambition, courtship, and social maneuvering.

Kipling’s sea adventure about a spoiled boy reshaped by labor, danger, and fellowship on a fishing schooner.

A Palliser novel built around jewels, legal claims, social ambition, and moral slipperiness.

Darwin extends evolutionary theory to human origins, sexual selection, psychology, and social development.

A landmark psychological short story about confinement, medical authority, and a woman’s mind under pressure.

Darwin’s travel narrative from the Beagle expedition, rich in geology, natural history, and observation.

Bunyan’s spiritual autobiography of temptation, doubt, conversion, conscience, and grace.

Twain’s dark novel of identity, race, fingerprints, switched infants, and Southern hypocrisy.

Twain’s time-travel satire sends American technology and democracy into Arthurian legend.

Milton’s tragic poem on blindness, captivity, vocation, vengeance, and spiritual trial.

Cooper’s western Leatherstocking novel, closing Natty Bumppo’s life on the open plains.

A Leatherstocking tale of frontier conflict, initiation, wilderness, and moral testing.

Hawthorne’s romance of utopian reform, desire, performance, and disillusionment in a communal experiment.

A major Hawthorne collection featuring allegorical tales, historical sketches, and psychological shadows.

Hawthorne’s early story collection of Puritan shadows, moral allegory, and New England imagination.

Emerson studies Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe as cultural types.

Carlyle’s influential lectures on prophets, poets, priests, writers, rulers, and historical greatness.

Carlyle’s strange philosophical satire on clothes, belief, symbols, and spiritual crisis.

Twain’s global travel book across the Pacific, Australia, India, South Africa, and imperial worlds.

A Mark Twain story collection led by the famous Hadleyburg satire, with sketches on reputation, fraud, belief, and social comedy.