Libri in inglese

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

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

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

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

A foundational science-fiction novella about time travel, class, evolution, and the far future.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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