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A controversial Victorian science classic on cosmic history, life, development, geology, and pre-Darwinian evolution.

Macaulay’s sweeping narrative of English politics, monarchy, revolution, party conflict, and constitutional change.

A vivid nineteenth-century historical account of Cortés, the Aztec Empire, conquest, empire, and encounter.

Samuel Johnson’s influential moral essays on character, learning, ambition, grief, and literary judgment.

A foundational work on law, society, custom, contract, family, property, and political development.

Coleridge’s classic blend of autobiography, poetic theory, philosophy, and Romantic literary criticism.

A classic explanation of banking, credit, central banks, money markets, and financial confidence.

A powerful abolitionist life narrative of slavery, faith, freedom, gender, and public witness.

A landmark English epistolary novel about virtue, class, seduction, domestic power, and moral self-command.

A sharp Anglo-Irish novel of estate decline, unreliable narration, family power, and social change.

A witty epistolary campus novel about education, independence, gratitude, secrecy, and self-discovery.

A lively sequel of letters about orphan care, reform, friendship, stubborn affection, and practical idealism.

A utopian political sequel exploring industrial organization, economic justice, citizenship, labor, and equality.

A meditative prose classic on burial, mortality, memory, antiquity, and the fragile ambition of human fame.

A sensation novel about marriage law, athletic culture, deception, inheritance, and social hypocrisy.

Edward Lear’s collected nonsense classics, including limericks, comic songs, alphabets, botany, and playful rhymes.

A social and political novel about class division, industrial England, reform, poverty, and national identity.

A powerful early twentieth-century novel on race, passing, music, identity, violence, and American society.

A major American artist novel about music, ambition, immigrant communities, landscape, discipline, and vocation.

A classic literature work on table-talk essays, humor, memory, books, society, and humane reflection.

A classic literature work on ancient and modern learning, literary pride, satire, libraries, and mock-heroic wit.

A classic education work on English usage, composition, grammar, concision, clarity, and practical writing style.

A classic literature work on New England faith, courtship, conscience, family feeling, and community life.

A classic politics work on Progressive Era reform, democracy, monopoly power, competition, and public responsibility.