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Lu Xun · English
Essays of irony, cultural criticism, memory, and moral anger from one of modern China’s most incisive writers.
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Lu Xun · English
Essays of irony, cultural criticism, memory, and moral anger from one of modern China’s most incisive writers.

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Zhu Xi; Lü Zuqian · English
A Neo-Confucian anthology on self-cultivation, learning, moral discipline, and the ordering of everyday conduct.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A speculative Victorian novel asking what happens when unlimited wealth is placed in the hands of a man determined to remake society.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A comic historical adventure series narrated by a magnificently self-confident French cavalry officer during the Napoleonic wars.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A varied collection ranging from imperial adventure and war stories to crime, suspense, and tales of moral pressure.

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Thomas Hardy · English
A witty social novel about a poet’s widow who turns performance, secrecy, and ambition into a way through Victorian society.

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Rudyard Kipling · English
A celebrated novel of an artist confronting blindness, disappointed love, ambition, and the brutal demands of professional identity.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A supernatural psychological novel about mesmerism, manipulation, desire, and the unsettling possibility of influence over another mind.

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H. Rider Haggard · English
A lost-world adventure of exile, hidden kingdoms, forbidden love, danger, and the search for a people concealed beyond known maps.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A historical adventure moving from the French Wars of Religion to the New World, where exile, loyalty, and survival shape every choice.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
An epistolary coming-of-age novel about a young doctor testing his ideals against medical practice, ambition, friendship, and society.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A desert travel narrative that turns a tourist excursion into a tense confrontation with violence, belief, fear, and cultural misunderstanding.

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Thomas Hardy · English
A Wessex romance set against the Napoleonic wars, balancing village loyalties, divided affections, and the arrival of soldiers.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A fast-moving medieval adventure of knights, archers, chivalry, and campaign life during the Hundred Years’ War.

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Thomas Hardy · English
A bold Victorian love story that places astronomy, social rank, marriage, and emotional risk beneath an open night sky.

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Thomas Hardy · English
A tender rural comedy about music, courtship, changing customs, and the fragile pleasures of a Dorset village community.

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Marcel Proust · English
A madeleine, a remembered childhood, and the elusive workings of memory open Proust’s landmark novel cycle.

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Feng Menglong · English
A new English translation opens Feng Menglong’s Ming-dynasty story collection, where desire, wit, justice, and sudden reversals shape everyday lives.

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E. Nesbit · English
Three siblings discover a hidden garden, a sleeping princess, and a ring whose magic is less predictable than it seems.

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Oscar Wilde · English
Wilde’s fairy tales pair luminous, playful storytelling with sharp questions about poverty, kindness, beauty, and sacrifice.

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E. Nesbit · English
A wish-granting carpet and a phoenix turn an ordinary family holiday into a brisk, funny adventure.

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John Keats · English
A substantial poetry collection tracing Keats’s sensuous language, classical imagination, and meditations on beauty and mortality.

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Walter Scott · English
At Elizabeth I’s court, Amy Robsart’s secret marriage to the ambitious Earl of Leicester becomes a perilous contest between love and power.

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Samuel Smiles · English
Samuel Smiles’s influential Victorian guide uses biographies of inventors, reformers, and workers to argue for perseverance and self-education.