English Books

A revolutionary series of political essays on liberty, independence, public courage, and civic resolve.

A landmark legal classic on precedent, liability, rights, duties, and the historical life of law.

A foundational English defense of poetry, imagination, learning, and literary art.

A landmark natural-history journey through islands, species, geography, evolution, and exploration.

A classic of close observation, natural history, birds, seasons, village life, and ecological attention.

A modern American novel of memory, scholarship, family tension, loss, and inward exile.

American transcendentalist essays on self-culture, independence, moral courage, nature, society, and individual thought.

A Barsetshire novel of clergy, ambition, debt, politics, marriage, social pressure, and Trollope’s realist comedy.

Fielding’s comic road novel, rich in satire, mistaken dignity, social observation, travel, virtue, and eighteenth-century humor.

A compact adventure novel of South African politics, treasure, danger, imperial imagination, and Buchan’s brisk thriller style.

Readable essays on psychology, art, play, rhythm, culture, individuality, and modern life by a major early twentieth-century thinker.

Kipling’s popular soldier poems of empire, barracks, battle, marching songs, slang, discipline, and comradeship.

A complete English collection of Everyman and early miracle plays, preserving the classic morality play in a fuller medieval-drama context.

The great English Arthurian cycle of King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, the Round Table, and the Grail.

Bacon’s utopian vision of science, research, experiment, knowledge, and an organized society of learning.

The classic Neverland novel of Peter Pan, Wendy, the Lost Boys, Captain Hook, childhood, and imagination.

Ruskin’s influential lectures on reading, books, education, character, gender ideals, and moral culture.

A vivid Restoration diary of London life, court politics, plague, fire, theater, work, marriage, and daily observation.

Mill’s major economic treatise on production, distribution, labor, capital, value, trade, and social reform.

Virginia Woolf’s influential essay on women, literature, money, space, and creative freedom.

A major collection of political essays on freedom, labor, education, prisons, and women’s rights.

Nitobe’s influential English account of samurai ethics, honor, courage, loyalty, and moral education.

A disturbing fin-de-siècle horror tale of forbidden experiment, pagan dread, and hidden corruption.

A visionary metaphysical journey through alien landscapes, spiritual conflict, and radical imaginative philosophy.