English Books

mathematical imagination, dimensions, geometry, social hierarchy, and satire.

prejudice, education, sympathy, family influence, and moral judgment.

political ambition, salons, influence, social ascent, and youthful self-fashioning.

Fielding’s searching novel of marriage, debt, virtue, and social pressure in eighteenth-century London.

A quietly influential Scottish social novel told through a parish minister’s changing world.

A witty Robin Hood romance that blends medieval adventure with Peacock’s satirical intelligence.

An Irish realist novel about education, character, inheritance, and moral independence.

Butler’s sharp religious satire on apologetics, belief, evidence, and Victorian argument.

A landmark Gothic romance of persecution, mystery, religious power, and suspenseful revelation.

A complete English edition of Lu Xun’s fiction, from modern Chinese awakening to moral crisis.

The first volume of China’s great family novel of love, poetry, decline, and illusion.

The opening volume of the great Chinese mythic journey of Monkey, Tripitaka, and the road west.

The first English volume of Pu Songling’s ghostly, strange, romantic, and satirical tales.

An English edition of the celebrated Chinese anecdote collection on wit, character, conversation, and elite culture.

Conrad’s first novel of colonial ambition, family conflict, trade, and disillusion.

A luminous memoir of childhood, nature, memory, birds, landscape, and the Argentine pampas.

A mock-heroic English satire of zeal, politics, argument, and Restoration wit.

A roaming Victorian novel of roads, languages, books, outsiders, and English wanderings.

A foundational portrait of early American identity, farming, immigration, slavery, and revolution.

A sea-horror adventure of shipwreck, strange weed seas, monsters, and cosmic dread.

A brilliant Edwardian story collection of wit, social mischief, satire, and dark comedy.

Melville’s riverboat satire of trust, fraud, commerce, and American self-invention.

A compact sea tale of command, storm, endurance, and unsentimental seamanship.

Writings of a Wei-Jin thinker on music, freedom, self-cultivation, friendship, and refusal.