English Books

Seven stories by Yu Dafu explore loneliness, desire, poverty, and the troubled self-awareness of young people facing an uncertain modern world.

Seventeen groups of classical Chinese poems explore exile, ritual, questioning, grief, and imagined journeys through the world of Chu.

A Kansas financier’s rise exposes the costs of ambition, inequality, and the pursuit of wealth in small-town America.

John Burroughs observes nesting birds, honeybees, fruit, woodland neighbors, and the patient attention that makes nature newly visible.

John Dewey examines inquiry as an experimental activity, connecting logical ideas with practical problems and the reconstruction of experience.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman examines how male-centered assumptions shape literature, education, institutions, and the organization of everyday social life.

A London speculator’s financial schemes turn social ambition and intimate relationships into a sharp study of money and power.

A young countryman’s arrival in Boston tests a minister’s good intentions against class prejudice, work, and personal responsibility.

John Muir recalls a Scottish childhood, hard work on a Wisconsin farm, and the curiosity that shaped his life.

Xu Guangqi’s agricultural selections connect classical learning with practical advice on cultivation, fruit trees, land management, and animal husbandry.

Pu Songling’s fourth through sixth original volumes bring fox spirits, ghosts, scholars, and uncanny reversals together in English Volume Two.

Du Liniang’s dream-born love crosses death and the demands of family in Tang Xianzu’s celebrated fifty-five-scene romantic drama.

Twelve philosophical essays examine pure experience, consciousness, relations, and the possibility of a world shared by different minds.

Henry George examines tariffs, wages, production, and landownership to ask what genuine freedom of trade requires.

John Dewey reconsiders inherited philosophical problems through modern science, changing social conditions, practical inquiry, and democratic experience.

Twenty-six essays turn encounters with workers, animals, landscapes, and theatre into reflections on sympathy, social judgment, and artistic freedom.

Jane Addams explores how women's memories reshape hardship, industrial life, social conventions, and opposition to war.

Observations of Burmese daily life connect Buddhist beliefs with government, monastic communities, family relationships, compassion, and attitudes toward death.

Eight stories follow artists, performers, and restless outsiders whose desires collide with convention, ambition, and the costs of beauty.

Thorstein Veblen investigates nationalism, vested interests, democratic institutions, and the economic arrangements that sustain war or make lasting peace possible.

A young woman challenges family authority and Victorian convention while searching for education, independence, and an honest understanding of love.

John Dewey examines how habits, impulses, intelligence, and social conditions shape conduct and the possibilities of moral change.

Jane Addams relates the pursuit of peace to city government, industrial relations, immigrant life, women’s participation, and the protection of children.

Jack London brings migration, seafaring, failed enterprise, and human conflict together in a collection of essays, recollections, and two plays.