English Books

Hope Leslie is a public-domain classic of colonial New England, conscience and female agency.

The Coquette is a public-domain classic of letters, reputation, desire and early American society.

A brilliant satire on books, religion, authorship, digression, and the noisy print culture of Swift’s age.

A sparkling comedy of reputation, gossip, marriage, hypocrisy, and social performance in fashionable London.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning American novel of class anxiety, family ambition, self-invention, and social embarrassment.

A lyrical children’s fantasy about Diamond, the North Wind, poverty, wonder, death, and consolation.

A political novel about youth, aristocracy, reform, party identity, and the future of Victorian Britain.

A public-domain Oscar Wilde poetry collection including The Ballad of Reading Gaol and earlier poems on beauty, desire, liberty, art, faith, and suffering.

A Victorian family novel of books, inheritance, domestic affection, learning, ambition, and comic observation.

A bestselling American sentimental novel of orphanhood, kindness, class mobility, education, and moral growth.

A Victorian bestseller of friendship, love, betrayal, conscience, and social judgment on the Isle of Man.

A bestselling historical romance of William Wallace, patriotism, heroism, loyalty, and Scottish resistance.

A vivid portrait gallery of Romantic-era writers, thinkers, politicians, critics, and public personalities.

A landmark American domestic novel of childhood, faith, separation, discipline, and emotional endurance.

A major eighteenth-century novel of courtship, family pressure, youthful error, money, reputation, and social judgment.

An influential early Gothic romance of inheritance, hidden crime, family honor, and supernatural justice.

A sequence of historical tales where English history, folklore, childhood, landscape, and memory meet.

A pioneering detective novel of murder, inheritance, evidence, suspicion, and courtroom-style investigation.

A landmark Gothic romance of flight, ruined abbeys, persecution, secrecy, and emotional suspense.

A sensational Victorian bestseller about literary fame, temptation, wealth, publishing, morality, and the devil.

Mary Shelley’s historical novel of medieval Italy, political ambition, republican ideals, love, and moral conflict.

A visionary romance of the future, pastoral utopia, altered society, and ecological imagination.

A radical Enlightenment argument on justice, reason, government, property, and human improvement.

A historical novel of Alexandria, philosophy, faith, political conflict, and late antique crisis.