English Books

A quiet coastal Maine classic about memory, community, solitude, and regional life.

A psychological Gothic tale of clairvoyance, dread, marriage, and moral isolation.

An early fantasy romance of exile, enchanted landscapes, desire, danger, and quest.

Dickens’s historical novel of mystery, family secrets, public violence, and the Gordon Riots of 1780.

A mature Dickens novel about pride, commerce, family neglect, railways, childhood, and emotional awakening.

A compact Dickens novel about factories, utilitarian education, class pressure, and the human cost of hard facts.

A Dickens satire of selfishness, inheritance, hypocrisy, America, architecture, and moral conversion.

A lively Dickens novel of family struggle, abusive schools, theater life, injustice, and comic resilience.

A Walter Scott historical romance of Scotland, Jacobite tension, family conflict, and the outlaw Rob Roy.

A tragic Scott romance of family feud, doomed love, political ambition, and Scottish Gothic atmosphere.

A Scottish historical novel of law, conscience, sisterhood, public unrest, and Jeanie Deans’s journey.

A historical novel of Pompeii before Vesuvius, mixing romance, religion, politics, and catastrophe.

A foundational adventure and science-fiction novel of Professor Challenger, exploration, dinosaurs, and a hidden plateau.

A sentimental Dickens journey following Little Nell through debt, pursuit, poverty, kindness, and loss.

A nineteenth-century travel narrative of the American West, the plains, frontier movement, and encounter.

A Crusades romance featuring Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, chivalry, disguise, illness, and honor.

Cather’s elegiac portrait of Marian Forrester, frontier memory, social change, and lost ideals.

A meditative New Mexico novel of faith, landscape, friendship, mission, and cultural encounter.

A dark Gothic labyrinth of temptation, imprisonment, wandering, and a soul-selling bargain.

Four women rent an Italian castle and discover renewal, friendship, desire, and comic self-knowledge.

A visionary weird-fiction novel where an isolated house opens onto cosmic horror and collapsing time.

A medieval-style romance of quest, love, peril, and the search for a life-giving well.

A high-fantasy epic of Demonland, Witchland, heroic rivalry, archaic style, and mythic warfare.

A landmark sea memoir of merchant sailing, California before statehood, labor, weather, and maritime discipline.