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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.

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

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

Walter Scott’s medieval romance of knights, Saxons, Normans, tournaments, outlaw bands, and the return of Richard the Lionheart.

The first Waverley novel follows Edward Waverley through Jacobite Scotland, divided loyalties, romance, and political rebellion.

E. Nesbit’s children’s fantasy sends five siblings into wish-making adventures with the strange sand-fairy Psammead.

Trollope’s parliamentary novel follows Phineas Finn through ambition, reform politics, society, love, and moral compromise.

Defoe’s late novel follows Roxana through survival, wealth, disguise, sexuality, guilt, and social risk in early modern Europe.

English edition of Kafka’s modernist novel about Josef K., invisible accusation, bureaucratic nightmare, guilt, and law.

An early American gothic novel of religious delusion, ventriloquism, fear, and family catastrophe.

A Revolutionary War novel of espionage, divided loyalties, patriotism, and secret sacrifice.

Origin tales full of rhythm, wit, animals, invention, and Kipling’s playful storytelling voice.

A medical novel about science, ambition, public health, research ethics, and institutional pressure.

A transatlantic novel about marriage, wealth, travel, American identity, and emotional reinvention.

A founding Romantic poetry collection about nature, common life, imagination, memory, and feeling.

Wordsworth’s great autobiographical poem on childhood, nature, imagination, memory, and poetic growth.

Keats’s mythic romance of beauty, desire, dream, transformation, and poetic apprenticeship.

Byron’s travel poem of exile, melancholy, politics, landscape, and the Byronic hero.

A deist critique of revealed religion, scripture, priestcraft, and religious authority.

A classic anarchist argument about cooperation, labor, mutual aid, and social organization.

Bacon’s landmark statement of induction, experiment, observation, and modern scientific method.

Swift’s savage political satire on poverty, exploitation, policy language, and moral blindness.

A lucid analysis of cabinet government, monarchy, parliament, and Victorian political institutions.