English Books

George Eliot's first novel studies conscience, desire, labor, and judgment in a vividly drawn rural community.

Anne Brontë's bold novel follows Helen Graham's escape from a destructive marriage and defense of moral freedom.

Charlotte Brontë sets friendship, labor unrest, and women's independence against the pressures of industrial Yorkshire.

Lucy Snowe's solitary voice turns exile, teaching, faith, and desire into Charlotte Brontë's most inward novel.

Elizabeth Gaskell brings class conflict, industrial change, and moral growth into a powerful Victorian love story.

A lookalike English gentleman is drawn into royal impersonation, romance, and danger in Ruritania.

Quatermain's final great journey turns exploration into a story of loyalty, danger, and imagined kingdoms beyond the map.

An expedition encounters Ayesha, the immortal queen whose beauty, power, and obsession dominate Haggard's fantasy romance.

Allan Quatermain leads an expedition through peril, legend, and lost kingship in Haggard's adventure romance.

A wartime Richard Hannay mission crosses Europe and the Near East in search of a dangerous political secret.

Richard Hannay runs across Britain with a secret in his pocket and a spy network at his heels.

H. G. Wells sends invention and imperial curiosity to the Moon, where discovery becomes strange, comic, and unsettling.

A riverside classic where Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad turn friendship, home, and mischief into lasting enchantment.

Shakespeare's stark tragedy of prophecy, murder, conscience, and the political ruin born from unchecked ambition.

A graceful travel narrative of feeling, manners, encounters, and inward reflection across France and Italy.

Anne Brontë's clear-eyed novel of governess work, moral independence, hardship, and quiet dignity.

A sweeping historical novel of revenge, faith, friendship, and transformation in the Roman world.

A humane animal classic that tells a horse's life through kindness, hardship, and moral witness.

A warm, observant portrait of a small English town, its women, customs, losses, and kindness.

Defoe's bold novel of survival, crime, disguise, fortune, repentance, and social mobility.

Jane Austen's witty novel of reading, imagination, manners, courtship, and Gothic expectation.

A selection of Byron's poetry, marked by romantic passion, irony, exile, heroism, and melancholy.

A classic reference work arranging English words by ideas, meanings, relations, and expression.

Chaucer's vivid pilgrimage collection of tales, voices, satire, devotion, humor, and social life.