English Books

Wang Wei’s poems move between court service, friendship, separation, mountain landscapes, rural retreat, and Buddhist reflection across fifteen sections.

Mary Kingsley recounts West African journeys through river travel, forest exploration, mountain climbing, trading encounters, and observations of local societies.

Jane Ellen Harrison traces connections between communal ritual, seasonal festivals, Greek drama, sculpture, and the emergence of artistic experience.

Samuel Butler compares earlier evolutionary thinkers with Darwin, tracing disputes about purpose, inheritance, adaptation, and natural selection.

Lucia’s cultural reign over an English village faces fresh challenges as neighbours compete through music, gossip, spiritualism, and social display.

John Burroughs observes flowers, birds, woodland animals, and American landscapes through patient fieldwork and reflective natural-history essays.

An archdeacon’s authority begins to crumble when a new rival unsettles his family, cathedral, and provincial English community.

Arthur Symons explores French literary modernity through essays on symbolism, poetic language, spiritual experience, and individual writers.

Seven stories examine divided loyalties, troubling sacrifices, and the distance between respectable appearances and private moral choices.

Ruth Holland returns to her Iowa hometown after an illicit love affair and confronts the lasting consequences of social judgment.

John Burroughs explores British landscapes, birds, literary homes, and rural life through the eyes of an American naturalist.

Frank T. Bullen recounts life aboard a whaling ship, from dangerous hunts and heavy labour to ports across distant oceans.

A wartime field hospital in Russia exposes rivalries, compassion, and divided loyalties among doctors, nurses, and foreign volunteers.

Katherine Trenchard’s engagement unsettles a close English family whose security depends on loyalty, habit, and resistance to change.

John Muir explores Sierra Nevada glaciers, forests, mountain storms, wildlife, and the changing natural landscapes of California.

Eight stories explore music, courage, justice, devotion, and the desires that shape ordinary lives in remote communities.

Joseph McCabe traces cosmic, geological, biological, and human development in an early twentieth-century account of evolutionary science.

Jane Addams examines commercial sexual exploitation through labor conditions, civic responsibility, public policy, and the education of young people.

A New Orleans physician encounters poverty, precarious work, and a young couple’s struggle for dignity before and during the Civil War.

An injured Canadian police officer is drawn into a river journey filled with hidden loyalties, danger, and an approaching forest fire.

A meeting between lookalikes in Africa leads to a tense struggle over identity, espionage, and trust in prewar English society.

Two men pursue a fugitive through the Canadian wilderness, where endurance, divided loyalties, and local knowledge shape an unforgiving journey.

London ambition, musical aspiration, and financial uncertainty draw a marriage into the restless pressures of late Victorian society.

John Burroughs observes falling leaves, birds, animals, and changing landscapes while reflecting on science and the pleasures of attentive looking.