English Books

Public-domain classic by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Silverado Squatters, a travel literature first published in 1883.

The opening volume of a sophisticated Chinese novel about desire, wealth, domestic power, commerce, and moral collapse.

The opening volume of a sweeping Chinese epic of war, strategy, loyalty, ambition, and the fall of the Han dynasty.

A foundational collection of sayings on learning, humaneness, ritual, leadership, character, and the conduct of an educated person.

The opening volume of the Chinese hero epic about Liangshan, outlaw brotherhood, justice, rebellion, and tragic loyalty.

A classic English-language work about debt, bureaucracy, family loyalty, London society and freedom.

A classic English-language work about American innocence, European convention, class, courtship and family pride.

A classic English-language work about hidden civilizations, energy, science and social progress.

A classic English-language work about transatlantic manners, culture, marriage and belonging.

A classic English-language work about debt, royal favor, London danger, honor and historical adventure.

A classic English-language work about humility, prayer, discipline, conscience and inner life.

A classic English-language work about inheritance, wealth, innocence and moral responsibility.

A classic English-language work about the life of the Buddha, renunciation, compassion and awakening.

A classic English-language work about crime, poverty, wealth, secret identities and the divided city.

A classic English-language work about disappearance, secrecy, obsession and an unfinished mystery.

A classic English-language work about politics, reputation, marriage and public duty.

A classic English-language work about class, revolution, identity and conscience.

A classic English-language work about inheritance, marriage, taste and family power.

A classic English-language work about art, politics, ambition, performance and vocation.

country-house sketches, folklore, humor, memory, and transatlantic manners.

American Gothic suspense, sleepwalking, frontier danger, guilt, and psychological pursuit.

deep time, gradual geological change, natural processes, and modern earth science.

eighteenth-century satire, picaresque travel, ambition, romance, and social comedy.

The opening volumes of Li Shizhen’s materia medica introduce classical Chinese medicine, herbs, pharmacy, and natural history.