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A young tenor’s musical ambitions and forbidden affection unfold through the recollections of the philosopher who raised him.

A woman returning to New England confronts class privilege, charitable ambitions and the difficult realities of workers’ lives.

In a New England village, stubborn convictions and family loyalties threaten affection, marriage and the possibility of reconciliation.

Tao Yuanming’s poetry and prose explore rural life, withdrawal from office and the search for an independent way of living.

Sun Zhu’s anthology brings together Tang poetry on friendship, separation, landscape and public life across several traditional verse forms.

Tom Bailey recalls schoolboy adventures, friendships, and mischief in a New England town, with humor rooted in childhood experience.

Chapters 26–50 follow Wu Song’s ordeals, Song Jiang’s encounters, and the Liangshan outlaws’ repeated attacks on Zhu Family Manor.

Speculative tales of social experiments, strange worlds, scientific hazards, and the limits of human certainty.

A young woman leaves a sheltered life and enters a world of travel, desire, work, and uncertain independence.

Beth’s life becomes a searching account of education, marriage, gender expectations, and a woman’s intellectual independence.

The Story Girl’s circle enters adolescence through storytelling, summer adventures, friendship, and the first awareness of change.

A dissatisfied shopkeeper breaks from routine and discovers a more honest, adventurous way to live.

A rural English drama of desire, class, marriage, and the emotional tensions beneath a changing social order.

An unexpected angel in an English village exposes the habits, prejudices, and moral contradictions of respectable society.

A darkly comic inheritance plot turns a missing body, rival families, and mistaken identity into farce.

A collection of linked tales where a night of storytelling becomes a portrait of fear, chance, and urban life.

Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise remains one of world literature’s defining visions of sin, justice, love, memory, and transcendence.

A foundational Chinese treatise on literary form, rhetoric, style, emotion, genre, and the moral responsibilities of writing.

The Blue Fairy Book presents a focused classic of literature and cultural history.

The Golden Butterfly presents a focused classic of literature and cultural history.

The Rajah’s Diamond presents a focused classic of literature and cultural history.

The Story of a Lie presents a focused classic of literature and cultural history.

A Reformation-era historical novel of Mary, Queen of Scots, political loyalty and religious conflict.

A witty ghost story in which an ancient haunting meets an irreverent American family and the possibility of compassion.