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Virginia Woolf’s playful, time-spanning novel of identity, biography, gender, and literary history.

A stylish cycle of gentleman-thief stories introducing A. J. Raffles, cricket hero and burglar.

A sharp Anglo-Irish novel about estate duty, social ambition, inheritance, and national belonging.

A comic classic of suburban respectability, social embarrassment, and everyday self-importance.

Comic legends, ghost stories, and verse tales rich in parody, folklore, and Victorian wit.

An early American sentimental novel of seduction, family secrecy, moral danger, and social reputation.

A public-domain classic on prison writing, suffering, love, humiliation, art, and spiritual reckoning.

A public-domain classic on comic storytelling, adventure, verbal wit, nested tales, and elegant fantasy.

A public-domain classic on lost worlds, strange metallic intelligence, scientific romance, adventure, and cosmic mystery.

A public-domain classic on South American travel, romance, political unrest, landscape, and freedom.

A public-domain classic on love, secrecy, social pressure, memory, and psychological realism.

A Hardy novel of inheritance, architecture, modern technology, divided faith, romance, and uncertainty.

A satirical country-house novel of eccentric talkers, reform schemes, politics, learning, and comic argument.

Aphra Behn’s influential novella of slavery, colonial violence, honor, love, betrayal, and royal identity.

The first A. J. Raffles stories: gentleman burglary, friendship, sport, risk, disguise, and moral ambiguity.

A bold seventeenth-century utopian romance mixing science, empire, satire, gender, and speculative imagination.

A sensation novel of marriage, legal injustice, investigation, female agency, secrets, and courtroom memory.

A Barsetshire novel of courtship, loyalty, ambition, family pressure, social position, and moral patience.

A brilliant Restoration comedy of wit, marriage bargaining, inheritance, manners, desire, and social performance.

An early space romance of planetary travel, scientific adventure, satire, empire, and cosmic imagination.

An early Hardy novel of love, hesitation, class mobility, rural Cornwall, and romantic misrecognition.

Stevenson’s sequel to Kidnapped, mixing Scottish history, legal peril, romance, exile, and adventure.

An early Alcott novel about marriage, temperament, self-knowledge, duty, desire, and emotional education.

A comic American childhood classic about mischief, imagination, family, school, status, and small-town life.