English Books

A classic English-language work about hidden civilizations, energy, science and social progress.

A classic English-language work about transatlantic manners, culture, marriage and belonging.

A classic English-language work about debt, royal favor, London danger, honor and historical adventure.

A classic English-language work about humility, prayer, discipline, conscience and inner life.

A classic English-language work about inheritance, wealth, innocence and moral responsibility.

A classic English-language work about the life of the Buddha, renunciation, compassion and awakening.

A classic English-language work about crime, poverty, wealth, secret identities and the divided city.

A classic English-language work about disappearance, secrecy, obsession and an unfinished mystery.

A classic English-language work about politics, reputation, marriage and public duty.

A classic English-language work about class, revolution, identity and conscience.

A classic English-language work about inheritance, marriage, taste and family power.

A classic English-language work about art, politics, ambition, performance and vocation.

country-house sketches, folklore, humor, memory, and transatlantic manners.

American Gothic suspense, sleepwalking, frontier danger, guilt, and psychological pursuit.

deep time, gradual geological change, natural processes, and modern earth science.

eighteenth-century satire, picaresque travel, ambition, romance, and social comedy.

The opening volumes of Li Shizhen’s materia medica introduce classical Chinese medicine, herbs, pharmacy, and natural history.

mathematical imagination, dimensions, geometry, social hierarchy, and satire.

prejudice, education, sympathy, family influence, and moral judgment.

political ambition, salons, influence, social ascent, and youthful self-fashioning.

Fielding’s searching novel of marriage, debt, virtue, and social pressure in eighteenth-century London.

A quietly influential Scottish social novel told through a parish minister’s changing world.

A witty Robin Hood romance that blends medieval adventure with Peacock’s satirical intelligence.

An Irish realist novel about education, character, inheritance, and moral independence.