English Books

A searching American novel of faith, ambition, temptation, and intellectual disillusionment.

A sharp novel of railroads, finance, political favors, and ruthless ambition in American capitalism.

Henry James’s late novel of marriage, perception, hidden betrayal, and psychological strategy.

A Roman romance of art, innocence, secrecy, and guilt by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A realist portrait of business success, social aspiration, and moral testing in Gilded Age Boston.

A complex novel of inheritance, illness, love, and moral calculation in London and Venice.

A tightly shaped New York novel about inheritance, courtship, parental control, and quiet resistance.

Mill’s major work on induction, scientific method, reasoning, evidence, and social science.

Newton’s classic experiments on light, color, prisms, reflection, refraction, and scientific method.

A public-domain abridged edition of Mill’s economics text on production, distribution, trade, taxation, and reform.

Hogarth’s influential art treatise on line, movement, variety, grace, and visual composition.

A detailed military study of Chancellorsville, command decisions, maneuver, terrain, and Civil War strategy.

A dramatic historical narrative of crowds, monarchy, terror, and revolutionary energy in France.

A nineteenth-century narrative of Pizarro, the Inca Empire, conquest, conflict, and empire.

A Puritan classic on pastoral duty, preaching, discipline, conscience, and care of souls.

Dewey’s compact argument for active learning, democracy, experience, and school reform.

A landmark argument for women’s equality, legal reform, liberty, education, and marriage rights.

Locke’s classic argument for religious toleration, civil government, conscience, churches, and liberty.

Hume’s major work on ideas, causation, belief, personal identity, passion, morals, and human understanding.

Locke’s foundational study of ideas, knowledge, experience, language, identity, and the limits of understanding.

Milton’s famous prose defense of unlicensed printing, free inquiry, truth, conscience, and public debate.

Mill’s political treatise on representation, liberty, participation, institutions, voting, and civic character.

A philosophical dialogue on design, skepticism, religious belief, evidence, analogy, and natural theology.

Faraday’s experimental papers on electricity, induction, electrochemistry, magnetism, fields, and scientific method.