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A naturalist San Francisco novel of greed, marriage, obsession, money, violence, and decline.

Ruskin’s major defense of Turner and a sweeping study of landscape, truth, nature, imagination, and art.

An epistolary novel of virtue, power, class, persuasion, and the contested voice of Pamela Andrews.

Um romance brasileiro sobre imprensa, racismo, ascensão social, desencanto e vida urbana no Rio.

George Eliot’s Florence novel of Romola, Tito Melema, Savonarola, marriage, conscience, and Renaissance politics.

Edna Pontellier’s search for selfhood, desire, art, motherhood, and freedom in Creole Louisiana.

Gibbon’s monumental history of Rome’s transformation, emperors, Christianity, war, politics, and empire.

Mary Shelley’s prophetic novel of plague, friendship, political collapse, memory, and the end of humanity.

Essays on Renaissance art, beauty, style, Leonardo, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and aesthetic experience.

A Victorian art classic on sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, and obedience in architecture.

元杂剧名作，围绕忠义、复仇、托孤、牺牲与家国伦理展开。

A compressed sea tale of innocence, authority, mutiny fears, naval law, and tragic moral judgment.

Un vaste roman musical et initiatique de George Sand, entre Venise, théâtre, amour, vocation et liberté.

Des récits brefs de Daudet marqués par la guerre, la mémoire, l’ironie, la province et l’émotion populaire.

Le grand roman lunaire de Jules Verne, entre artillerie, calcul, imagination scientifique et rêve spatial.

Schopenhauers Hauptwerk über Vorstellung, Wille, Erkenntnis, Kunst, Leiden und die metaphysische Struktur der Welt.

A witty epistolary novel about a young woman entering London society, manners, courtship, and female reputation.

Un roman de George Sand sur le mariage, le désir, la domination sociale et la quête d’indépendance féminine.

Un Verne mystérieux : château isolé, village transylvain, illusion technique, amour perdu et atmosphère gothique.

A Manchester social novel about factory life, poverty, labor conflict, grief, love, and moral responsibility.

Un roman d’aventure de Jules Verne : courrier du tsar, Sibérie, mission secrète, loyauté et périls de voyage.

Une satire vive de l’héroïsme provincial, de la chasse au lion, du voyage et des fanfaronnades de Tartarin.

A humane eighteenth-century novel of family trial, moral comedy, misplaced trust, poverty, and resilience.

A foundational Western novel of Wyoming ranch life, honor, romance, frontier law, and cowboy myth.