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A Scottish adventure of betrayal, flight, friendship, and Jacobite danger after a stolen inheritance.

A comic travel narrative through Europe and the Holy Land, full of satire, observation, and cultural collision.

Locke’s foundational defense of natural rights, consent, property, resistance, and limited government.

Twain’s comic memoir of the American West, mining camps, stagecoaches, newspapers, and frontier myth.

A sharp social panorama centered on Becky Sharp, ambition, marriage markets, war, money, and moral performance.

Richardson’s monumental epistolary novel explores family pressure, coercion, virtue, reputation, and psychological conflict.

Dickens’s exuberant first novel follows Mr. Pickwick through comic travel, law, debt, friendship, and bustling English life.

A philosophical tale in which Prince Rasselas searches for happiness, wisdom, vocation, solitude, power, and human limits.

An English edition of the Daoist classic on freedom, transformation, language, dreams, usefulness, and wandering beyond fixed distinctions.

Defoe reconstructs London’s 1665 plague through observation, rumor, mortality bills, fear, charity, and civic disorder.

A foundational mercantilist argument about trade balance, national wealth, and early modern commerce.

Robert Burton’s encyclopedic study of melancholy, medicine, learning, religion, and human temperament.

A mathematical satire that imagines a two-dimensional world and the shock of higher dimensions.

Thomas Paine’s defense of popular sovereignty, natural rights, and political reform in the age of revolution.

Adam Smith’s moral philosophy of sympathy, conscience, virtue, and social judgment.

A socialist utopian romance imagining work, beauty, fellowship, and daily life after industrial capitalism.

A luminous memory novel of immigrant childhood, prairie labor, friendship, desire, and American place.

Naturalist short fiction of shipwreck, war, fear, chance, urban hardship, and human endurance.

Washington’s autobiography of emancipation, schooling, Tuskegee, self-help, race, and public leadership.

James’s accessible lectures on truth, belief, experience, pluralism, religion, and practical consequences.

A hugely influential utopian novel of future Boston, nationalized industry, equality, and social order.

A prairie novel of land, family duty, immigrant endurance, and Alexandra Bergson’s hard-won vision.

Conrad’s sea tale of first command, fire, danger, memory, imperial routes, and youthful illusion.

Kropotkin’s argument that cooperation, not only competition, shapes animals, humans, and society.