English Books

The first A. J. Raffles stories: gentleman burglary, friendship, sport, risk, disguise, and moral ambiguity.

A bold seventeenth-century utopian romance mixing science, empire, satire, gender, and speculative imagination.

A sensation novel of marriage, legal injustice, investigation, female agency, secrets, and courtroom memory.

A Barsetshire novel of courtship, loyalty, ambition, family pressure, social position, and moral patience.

A brilliant Restoration comedy of wit, marriage bargaining, inheritance, manners, desire, and social performance.

An early space romance of planetary travel, scientific adventure, satire, empire, and cosmic imagination.

An early Hardy novel of love, hesitation, class mobility, rural Cornwall, and romantic misrecognition.

Stevenson’s sequel to Kidnapped, mixing Scottish history, legal peril, romance, exile, and adventure.

An early Alcott novel about marriage, temperament, self-knowledge, duty, desire, and emotional education.

A comic American childhood classic about mischief, imagination, family, school, status, and small-town life.

A tropical castaway romance about childhood, survival, innocence, nature, isolation, and awakening desire.

A children’s historical adventure of the English Civil War, survival, disguise, loyalty, and woodland life.

An Elizabethan prose romance of pastoral disguise, political counsel, love, virtue, rhetoric, and adventure.

A historical romance of Shetland, Norse memory, family rivalry, sea adventure, disguise, and passion.

The penny dreadful that introduced Sweeney Todd, blending urban horror, crime, revenge, and sensational mystery.

A controversial Victorian science classic on cosmic history, life, development, geology, and pre-Darwinian evolution.

Macaulay’s sweeping narrative of English politics, monarchy, revolution, party conflict, and constitutional change.

A vivid nineteenth-century historical account of Cortés, the Aztec Empire, conquest, empire, and encounter.

Samuel Johnson’s influential moral essays on character, learning, ambition, grief, and literary judgment.

A foundational work on law, society, custom, contract, family, property, and political development.

Coleridge’s classic blend of autobiography, poetic theory, philosophy, and Romantic literary criticism.

A classic explanation of banking, credit, central banks, money markets, and financial confidence.

A powerful abolitionist life narrative of slavery, faith, freedom, gender, and public witness.

A landmark English epistolary novel about virtue, class, seduction, domestic power, and moral self-command.