English Books

A meditative prose classic on burial, mortality, memory, antiquity, and the fragile ambition of human fame.

A sensation novel about marriage law, athletic culture, deception, inheritance, and social hypocrisy.

Edward Lear’s collected nonsense classics, including limericks, comic songs, alphabets, botany, and playful rhymes.

A social and political novel about class division, industrial England, reform, poverty, and national identity.

A powerful early twentieth-century novel on race, passing, music, identity, violence, and American society.

A major American artist novel about music, ambition, immigrant communities, landscape, discipline, and vocation.

A classic literature work on table-talk essays, humor, memory, books, society, and humane reflection.

A classic literature work on ancient and modern learning, literary pride, satire, libraries, and mock-heroic wit.

A classic education work on English usage, composition, grammar, concision, clarity, and practical writing style.

A classic literature work on New England faith, courtship, conscience, family feeling, and community life.

A classic politics work on Progressive Era reform, democracy, monopoly power, competition, and public responsibility.

A classic literature work on lost-world adventure, survival, prehistoric danger, exploration, and pulp imagination.

A classic literature work on Texas frontier justice, outlaw country, danger, loyalty, and redemption.

A classic literature work on jungle adventure, espionage, lost treasure, travel, survival, and heroic return.

A monumental English Renaissance epic of holiness, virtue, chivalry, allegory, and political imagination.

A historical-socialist romance linking the Peasants’ Revolt, labor, justice, and social hope.

A haunting Romantic memoir of memory, addiction, dreams, suffering, and the inner life.

A classic Victorian argument about culture, education, social order, criticism, and public life.

A Victorian synthesis of philosophy, science, evolution, knowledge, and social thought.

A major abolitionist autobiography on slavery, self-education, resistance, freedom, and public voice.

A revolutionary series of political essays on liberty, independence, public courage, and civic resolve.

A landmark legal classic on precedent, liability, rights, duties, and the historical life of law.

A foundational English defense of poetry, imagination, learning, and literary art.

A landmark natural-history journey through islands, species, geography, evolution, and exploration.