English Books

A transatlantic novel of marriage, inheritance, resilience, and social power.

A bestselling Edwardian romance about love, sacrifice, faith, illness, and second chances.

A beloved American novel about optimism, resilience, and the transforming force of a cheerful child.

Melville’s dark, experimental novel of inheritance, identity, secrecy, and moral confusion.

A visionary fantasy novel of dreams, death, spiritual awakening, and mythic transformation.

A major Victorian novel of marriage, jealousy, social pressure, and moral self-deception.

A major Victorian education classic on knowledge, character, science, health, and child development.

Saki’s brilliant short stories of wit, cruelty, surprise, and Edwardian social satire.

A foundational post-apocalyptic novel imagining wilderness, feudal society, and survival after civilization.

Lu Xun’s landmark modern Chinese story of paranoia, social violence, tradition, and awakening.

A major poetic meditation on human nature, providence, reason, order, and moral limitation.

A foundational essay on conscience, state power, tax resistance, and the moral limits of government.

A landmark conservative response to the French Revolution, tradition, reform, rights, and political order.

A lively eighteenth-century comedy of mistaken identity, courtship, class manners, and theatrical wit.

A major work of literary biography and criticism on English poets, taste, style, and reputation.

A sparkling comedy of language, romance, vanity, duels, and theatrical misunderstanding.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica is a public-domain classic of early modern science and skepticism.

The Book of Tea is a public-domain classic of tea culture, Japanese aesthetics, Taoism and Zen.

A Simple Story is a public-domain classic of feeling, restraint, family authority and moral consequence.

Belinda is a public-domain classic of society, education, courtship and women’s judgment.

Hope Leslie is a public-domain classic of colonial New England, conscience and female agency.

The Coquette is a public-domain classic of letters, reputation, desire and early American society.

A brilliant satire on books, religion, authorship, digression, and the noisy print culture of Swift’s age.

A sparkling comedy of reputation, gossip, marriage, hypocrisy, and social performance in fashionable London.