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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.

Cooley explains how sympathy, selfhood and everyday relationships connect individual experience with the wider organization of society.

William James reflects on scientists, education, human energy and peace in essays combining personal recollection with psychological inquiry.

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

Liang Qichao examines Li Hongzhang’s political career against the wars, diplomatic pressures and reform debates of the late Qing.

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.

Follett proposes a democracy built through neighborhood groups, collective decision making, and the integration of differing interests in public life.

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

Sima Qian’s account of Qin’s First Emperor is joined by biographies of Wang Jian, Lü Buwei, and Li Si.

Treatises associated with Shang Yang examine legal reform, agriculture, warfare, rewards, punishments, and the organization of a powerful state.

Adler explores moral education through stories, classroom experience, habits, and practical duties, with attention to children’s developing judgment.

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.

Essays on law, power, statecraft, political authority, and the incentives that govern rulers and officials.

Xiang Yu and Liu Bang’s rivalry reveals how ambition, military leadership, loyalty and political judgment shaped the founding of the Han dynasty.

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.