Libri di Letteratura

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.

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

Marivaux’s elegant comedy of disguise, class, courtship, self-knowledge, and emotional testing.

A fast Molière farce of tricks, fathers, young lovers, servants, disguises, and comic beatings.

Molière’s comedy-ballet mocks social climbing, false refinement, teachers, money, and vanity.

Beaumarchais’s brilliant social comedy of servants, aristocrats, desire, wit, and pre-Revolutionary tension.

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.

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

A Leatherstocking adventure of scouting, war, loyalty, and romance around the Great Lakes frontier.

Irving’s collection of European sketches, supernatural anecdotes, traveler’s tales, and comic observation.

The first Barsetshire novel, centered on conscience, charity, reform, journalism, and church income.

A Golden Age comedy about lies, reputation, love, social performance, and the comedy of suspicion.

Alencar’s Indianist novel of warrior honor, tribe, ritual, rivalry, and national mythmaking.