English Books

A Pulitzer Prize-winning American novel of class anxiety, family ambition, self-invention, and social embarrassment.

A lyrical children’s fantasy about Diamond, the North Wind, poverty, wonder, death, and consolation.

A political novel about youth, aristocracy, reform, party identity, and the future of Victorian Britain.

A public-domain Oscar Wilde poetry collection including The Ballad of Reading Gaol and earlier poems on beauty, desire, liberty, art, faith, and suffering.

A Victorian family novel of books, inheritance, domestic affection, learning, ambition, and comic observation.

A bestselling American sentimental novel of orphanhood, kindness, class mobility, education, and moral growth.

A Victorian bestseller of friendship, love, betrayal, conscience, and social judgment on the Isle of Man.

A bestselling historical romance of William Wallace, patriotism, heroism, loyalty, and Scottish resistance.

A vivid portrait gallery of Romantic-era writers, thinkers, politicians, critics, and public personalities.

A landmark American domestic novel of childhood, faith, separation, discipline, and emotional endurance.

A major eighteenth-century novel of courtship, family pressure, youthful error, money, reputation, and social judgment.

An influential early Gothic romance of inheritance, hidden crime, family honor, and supernatural justice.

A sequence of historical tales where English history, folklore, childhood, landscape, and memory meet.

A pioneering detective novel of murder, inheritance, evidence, suspicion, and courtroom-style investigation.

A landmark Gothic romance of flight, ruined abbeys, persecution, secrecy, and emotional suspense.

A sensational Victorian bestseller about literary fame, temptation, wealth, publishing, morality, and the devil.

Mary Shelley’s historical novel of medieval Italy, political ambition, republican ideals, love, and moral conflict.

A visionary romance of the future, pastoral utopia, altered society, and ecological imagination.

A radical Enlightenment argument on justice, reason, government, property, and human improvement.

A historical novel of Alexandria, philosophy, faith, political conflict, and late antique crisis.

A witty collection of comic essays on idleness, vanity, love, work, memory, and daily life.

A reform-minded Victorian novel about prison abuse, emigration, injustice, and moral recovery.

An English edition of Li Yu’s classic essays on theatre, taste, garden life, pleasure, and daily art.

Walter Pater’s philosophical historical novel of Roman culture, aesthetic experience, and spiritual searching.