Libri in inglese

Essays, anecdotes, and philosophical reflections unfold around an imaginary breakfast table, where ordinary conversation opens onto mind, memory, and society.

A murder trial exposes how racial classification, inherited privilege, and a single switch in infancy can overturn an entire community’s idea of identity.

Emma Bovary tries to live the passionate life promised by romantic fiction, while marriage, debt, desire, and provincial judgment close in around her.

A family inheritance brings two opposing temperaments together: generous idealism on one side, suspicion and self-righteousness on the other.

A country clergyman accused of theft becomes the center of a moral crisis involving conscience, reputation, poverty, and the judgment of a close-knit society.

When Gregor Samsa wakes transformed into an insect, his family’s dependence on his wages turns overnight into fear, shame, and abandonment.

At a troubled Scottish abbey, reform, superstition, political change, and romantic adventure collide as an old order begins to disappear.

Public-domain classic by Mencius: Mencius, a Chinese philosophy first published in -300.

Public-domain classic by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Beach of Falesá, a adventure fiction first published in 1893.

Public-domain classic by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Body Snatcher, a gothic fiction first published in 1884.

Public-domain classic by Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel, a mystery novel first published in 1878.

Public-domain classic by George MacDonald: The Light Princess, a fairy tale first published in 1864.

Public-domain classic by Joseph Conrad: The Nigger of the Narcissus, a sea novel first published in 1897.

Public-domain classic by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Pavilion on the Links, a mystery adventure first published in 1880.

Public-domain classic by George MacDonald: The Princess and Curdie, a children's fantasy first published in 1883.

Public-domain classic by George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin, a children's fantasy first published in 1872.

Public-domain classic by Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer, a psychological fiction first published in 1910.

Public-domain classic by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Silverado Squatters, a travel literature first published in 1883.

The opening volume of a sophisticated Chinese novel about desire, wealth, domestic power, commerce, and moral collapse.

The opening volume of a sweeping Chinese epic of war, strategy, loyalty, ambition, and the fall of the Han dynasty.

A foundational collection of sayings on learning, humaneness, ritual, leadership, character, and the conduct of an educated person.

The opening volume of the Chinese hero epic about Liangshan, outlaw brotherhood, justice, rebellion, and tragic loyalty.

A classic English-language work about debt, bureaucracy, family loyalty, London society and freedom.

A classic English-language work about American innocence, European convention, class, courtship and family pride.