English Books

Austen’s novel of sisters, feeling, restraint, money, marriage, and emotional education.

A ghost story of memory, conscience, poverty, generosity, and the possibility of moral change.

A swift adventure of pirates, maps, mutiny, courage, and the dangerous charm of Long John Silver.

A coming-of-age novel about ambition, shame, class illusion, love, and moral awakening.

An early Chinese anthology of songs about love, labor, ritual, war, marriage, and political complaint.

A dreamlike journey through nonsense, logic games, strange authority, and the instability of growing up.

Darwin’s revolutionary argument for evolution by natural selection, grounded in observation and comparison.

A central text of liberal political thought on rights, consent, property, resistance, and legitimate rule.

Adam Smith’s foundational inquiry into labor, markets, prices, trade, institutions, and national wealth.

A practical treasury of English phrases for style, vocabulary, speech, and composition.

A monumental English Bible whose language shaped devotion, literature, politics, and public memory.

A restrained military memoir of command, endurance, strategy, and the lived reality of the American Civil War.

Blake’s illuminated poems contrast childhood vision with social cruelty, repression, and prophetic imagination.

A bright American fairy tale about home, courage, friendship, and the strange logic of wishes.

A sequence of brilliant cases where observation, disguise, motive, and deduction become literary pleasure.

A concise strategic classic on conflict, command, timing, terrain, deception, and disciplined restraint.

A sea voyage turned metaphysical quest, obsessed with whales, fate, language, and Captain Ahab’s will.

A fierce first-person novel of conscience, love, independence, and the refusal to be diminished.

A vampire novel of fear, desire, foreignness, and modern coordination against an ancient threat.

A Gothic meditation on creation, ambition, loneliness, and the moral cost of abandoning what one has made.

A brilliant comedy of manners where first impressions, family pressure, and pride slowly give way to self-knowledge.