Libri in inglese

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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