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A witty Kai Lung collection mixing comic fantasy, storytelling, irony, and elegant invented Chinese manners.

Ruskin’s influential critique of political economy, labor, wealth, justice, and social responsibility.

A landmark study connecting biology, mathematics, morphology, and the visible forms of living organisms.

A medieval English guide to contemplative prayer, mystical devotion, and the hidden life of faith.

Carlyle’s dramatic history of the French Revolution, told with force, scale, and moral urgency.

A late Conrad novel of isolation, moral danger, and psychological tension in the tropics.

A dark Victorian sensation novel of fate, murder, double identity, and manipulation.

The opening Palliser novel, rich in courtship, politics, money, and difficult choices.

A gripping sensation novel about inheritance, identity, illegitimacy, and revenge.

A bestselling Victorian horror novel of mesmerism, pursuit, disguise, and supernatural menace.

A modernist classic of unreliable narration, marriage, betrayal, memory, and moral blindness.

A South African literary classic about childhood, gender, belief, freedom, and colonial life.

A dark Gothic Oriental tale of forbidden knowledge, ambition, luxury, and damnation.

A Victorian society novel about wit, reputation, marriage, and a brilliant woman under pressure.

A witty country-house satire of systems, reformers, appetite, and argument.

A Scottish historical novel of rebellion, memory, religious conflict, and divided loyalty.

Dickens’s dark late novel of inheritance, identity, waste, class, and moral renewal.

A Victorian coming-of-age novel about ambition, vanity, journalism, love, and self-knowledge.

A generous Victorian family chronicle of money, marriage, art, class, and moral feeling.

John Carter’s leap to Barsoom launches sword-and-planet adventure at full speed.

Washington politics becomes a sharp comedy of ambition, influence, and moral compromise.

A fierce satire of American revivalism, salesmanship, celebrity, and spiritual hunger.

Fitzgerald studies beauty, money, marriage, and drift before the glamour curdles.

An artist’s hunger for beauty and success becomes a restless study of desire.