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Edward Bulwer-Lytton · English
A classic English-language work about hidden civilizations, energy, science and social progress.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton · English
A classic English-language work about hidden civilizations, energy, science and social progress.

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Henry James · English
A classic English-language work about transatlantic manners, culture, marriage and belonging.

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Walter Scott · English
A classic English-language work about debt, royal favor, London danger, honor and historical adventure.

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Henry James · English
A classic English-language work about inheritance, wealth, innocence and moral responsibility.

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George W. M. Reynolds · English
A classic English-language work about crime, poverty, wealth, secret identities and the divided city.

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Charles Dickens · English
A classic English-language work about disappearance, secrecy, obsession and an unfinished mystery.

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Anthony Trollope · English
A classic English-language work about politics, reputation, marriage and public duty.

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Henry James · English
A classic English-language work about class, revolution, identity and conscience.

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Henry James · English
A classic English-language work about inheritance, marriage, taste and family power.

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Henry James · English
A classic English-language work about art, politics, ambition, performance and vocation.

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Washington Irving · English
country-house sketches, folklore, humor, memory, and transatlantic manners.

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Charles Brockden Brown · English
American Gothic suspense, sleepwalking, frontier danger, guilt, and psychological pursuit.

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Tobias Smollett · English
eighteenth-century satire, picaresque travel, ambition, romance, and social comedy.

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Maria Edgeworth · English
prejudice, education, sympathy, family influence, and moral judgment.

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Benjamin Disraeli · English
political ambition, salons, influence, social ascent, and youthful self-fashioning.

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Henry Fielding · English
Fielding’s searching novel of marriage, debt, virtue, and social pressure in eighteenth-century London.

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John Galt · English
A quietly influential Scottish social novel told through a parish minister’s changing world.

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Thomas Love Peacock · English
A witty Robin Hood romance that blends medieval adventure with Peacock’s satirical intelligence.

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Maria Edgeworth · English
An Irish realist novel about education, character, inheritance, and moral independence.

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Ann Radcliffe · English
A landmark Gothic romance of persecution, mystery, religious power, and suspenseful revelation.

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Lu Xun · English
A complete English edition of Lu Xun’s fiction, from modern Chinese awakening to moral crisis.

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Cao Xueqin · English
The first volume of China’s great family novel of love, poetry, decline, and illusion.

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Wu Cheng'en · English
The opening volume of the great Chinese mythic journey of Monkey, Tripitaka, and the road west.

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Pu Songling · English
The first English volume of Pu Songling’s ghostly, strange, romantic, and satirical tales.