English Books

A bestselling Victorian horror novel of mesmerism, pursuit, disguise, and supernatural menace.

A modernist classic of unreliable narration, marriage, betrayal, memory, and moral blindness.

A South African literary classic about childhood, gender, belief, freedom, and colonial life.

A dark Gothic Oriental tale of forbidden knowledge, ambition, luxury, and damnation.

A Victorian society novel about wit, reputation, marriage, and a brilliant woman under pressure.

A witty country-house satire of systems, reformers, appetite, and argument.

A Scottish historical novel of rebellion, memory, religious conflict, and divided loyalty.

Dickens’s dark late novel of inheritance, identity, waste, class, and moral renewal.

A Victorian coming-of-age novel about ambition, vanity, journalism, love, and self-knowledge.

A generous Victorian family chronicle of money, marriage, art, class, and moral feeling.

John Carter’s leap to Barsoom launches sword-and-planet adventure at full speed.

Washington politics becomes a sharp comedy of ambition, influence, and moral compromise.

A fierce satire of American revivalism, salesmanship, celebrity, and spiritual hunger.

Fitzgerald studies beauty, money, marriage, and drift before the glamour curdles.

An artist’s hunger for beauty and success becomes a restless study of desire.

A proud family declines as automobiles, industry, and modern manners remake America.

Frank Cowperwood expands his empire through finance, politics, desire, and ruthless charm.

Youth, privilege, love, and restlessness define Fitzgerald’s first Jazz Age breakthrough.

A seventeenth-century devotional classic on mortality, preparation, repentance, and Christian hope.

Jeremy Taylor gives practical Anglican guidance on devotion, discipline, charity, and daily holiness.

Chesterton answers modern history with a sweeping Christian vision of humanity and Christ.

A haunting Wall Street tale of refusal, office routine, alienation, and moral bewilderment.

A political and social novel about reform, inheritance, conscience, and class conflict.

Three early George Eliot stories about clergy, provincial life, sympathy, and moral trial.