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A political novel of betrayal, exile, revolution, surveillance, and moral pressure.

A paradox-filled Chesterton novel about faith, doubt, friendship, and a duel that becomes a pilgrimage.

A late Hardy romance of divided identity, aging desire, and the elusive pursuit of ideal beauty.

Jerome’s comic cycling tour sends three friends through Germany with wit, mishaps, and sharp social observation.

A late-Victorian novel of class anxiety, ambition, unbelief, and intellectual pride.

The opening novel of Parade’s End, a modernist study of marriage, war, and conscience.

A lively Victorian comic fantasy about a father and son who exchange bodies.

A transatlantic novel of marriage, inheritance, resilience, and social power.

A bestselling Edwardian romance about love, sacrifice, faith, illness, and second chances.

A beloved American novel about optimism, resilience, and the transforming force of a cheerful child.

Melville’s dark, experimental novel of inheritance, identity, secrecy, and moral confusion.

A visionary fantasy novel of dreams, death, spiritual awakening, and mythic transformation.

A major Victorian novel of marriage, jealousy, social pressure, and moral self-deception.

Saki’s brilliant short stories of wit, cruelty, surprise, and Edwardian social satire.

A foundational post-apocalyptic novel imagining wilderness, feudal society, and survival after civilization.

Lu Xun’s landmark modern Chinese story of paranoia, social violence, tradition, and awakening.

A lively eighteenth-century comedy of mistaken identity, courtship, class manners, and theatrical wit.

A sparkling comedy of language, romance, vanity, duels, and theatrical misunderstanding.

A Simple Story is a public-domain classic of feeling, restraint, family authority and moral consequence.

Belinda is a public-domain classic of society, education, courtship and women’s judgment.

Hope Leslie is a public-domain classic of colonial New England, conscience and female agency.

The Coquette is a public-domain classic of letters, reputation, desire and early American society.

A brilliant satire on books, religion, authorship, digression, and the noisy print culture of Swift’s age.

A sparkling comedy of reputation, gossip, marriage, hypocrisy, and social performance in fashionable London.