English Books

A romantic adventure of exile, loyalty, secret identity, and youthful courage in a changing Europe.

A powerful Crane collection about prejudice, fear, violence, and the moral pressure of small communities.

A dark late Twain tale where supernatural satire questions morality, belief, cruelty, and human vanity.

A landmark Qing drama of imperial love, music, memory, rebellion, and tragic splendor.

A major Chinese historical drama where romance, loyalty, art, and dynastic collapse meet.

Jack London’s firsthand tramp memoir turns rail yards, jails, and roadside survival into sharp social testimony.

James Joyce's modernist landmark following one day in Dublin through memory, language, and consciousness.

A lyrical coming-of-age novel about orphanhood, imagination, writing, and belonging.

A foundational transcendentalist essay on nature, spirit, perception, and self-reliant thought.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of Nebraska, restlessness, war, idealism, and loss.

A moving Green Gables novel about youth, family, wartime waiting, and emotional growth.

A landmark investigative account of asylum abuse, journalism, public reform, and women’s confinement.

A haunting novel of artistic obsession, rural vision, London isolation, and psychological collapse.

A decadent mystery of disguises, occult dread, London streets, and stories nested inside stories.

A political novel of betrayal, exile, revolution, surveillance, and moral pressure.

Wilde’s essays defend artifice, criticism, and beauty with dazzling paradox and theatrical intelligence.

Kropotkin’s classic argument presents cooperation as a major force in evolution and social life.

Bagehot links early social evolution, political institutions, and national character in a classic Victorian argument.

A paradox-filled Chesterton novel about faith, doubt, friendship, and a duel that becomes a pilgrimage.

A late Hardy romance of divided identity, aging desire, and the elusive pursuit of ideal beauty.

Jerome’s comic cycling tour sends three friends through Germany with wit, mishaps, and sharp social observation.

A late-Victorian novel of class anxiety, ambition, unbelief, and intellectual pride.

The opening novel of Parade’s End, a modernist study of marriage, war, and conscience.

A historically influential early work of psychology and sexology by Havelock Ellis.