Libri in inglese

Faraday’s experimental papers on electricity, induction, electrochemistry, magnetism, fields, and scientific method.

Keynes’s influential critique of the Versailles settlement, reparations, Europe’s economy, and postwar instability.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 political Gothic novel of pursuit, secrecy, class power, surveillance, and the machinery of justice.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Three generations of the Brangwen family search for love, faith, sexuality, and modern freedom.

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