Literature Books

H. G. Wells sends invention and imperial curiosity to the Moon, where discovery becomes strange, comic, and unsettling.

Richard Hannay runs across Britain with a secret in his pocket and a spy network at his heels.

A wartime Richard Hannay mission crosses Europe and the Near East in search of a dangerous political secret.

Allan Quatermain leads an expedition through peril, legend, and lost kingship in Haggard's adventure romance.

An expedition encounters Ayesha, the immortal queen whose beauty, power, and obsession dominate Haggard's fantasy romance.

Quatermain's final great journey turns exploration into a story of loyalty, danger, and imagined kingdoms beyond the map.

A lookalike English gentleman is drawn into royal impersonation, romance, and danger in Ruritania.

Lucy Snowe's solitary voice turns exile, teaching, faith, and desire into Charlotte Brontë's most inward novel.

A landmark detective story introducing Dupin's analytic mind and a shocking Paris mystery.

Poe's Gothic masterpiece of decay, fear, family doom, and a house that seems alive.

A Sherlock Holmes mystery of coded warnings, hidden violence, and a secret society's long shadow.

A comic river journey full of friendship, mishaps, digressions, and relaxed Victorian wit.

Defoe's bold novel of survival, crime, disguise, fortune, repentance, and social mobility.

A selection of Byron's poetry, marked by romantic passion, irony, exile, heroism, and melancholy.

A playful, digressive comic novel that turns storytelling itself into its central adventure.

A graceful travel narrative of feeling, manners, encounters, and inward reflection across France and Italy.

A tense psychological tale of obsession, murder, guilt, and an impossible heartbeat.

The pioneering Gothic novel of inheritance, prophecy, terror, secret guilt, and haunted architecture.

Jane Austen's witty novel of reading, imagination, manners, courtship, and Gothic expectation.

Anne Brontë's clear-eyed novel of governess work, moral independence, hardship, and quiet dignity.

A warm, observant portrait of a small English town, its women, customs, losses, and kindness.

Poe's haunting poem of grief, memory, midnight visitation, and the word that will not leave.

Conrad's dark political novel of espionage, anarchism, betrayal, and private tragedy in London.

Un roman français classique sur la passion, l'errance, l'argent, la faute et la fidélité impossible.