English Books

A late-Victorian novel of class anxiety, ambition, unbelief, and intellectual pride.

The opening novel of Parade’s End, a modernist study of marriage, war, and conscience.

A historically influential early work of psychology and sexology by Havelock Ellis.

A Victorian political novel of Young England, faith, empire, reform, and aristocratic imagination.

A classic economic history of industry, machinery, markets, labor, and modern capitalism.

Einstein’s concise lecture-based explanation of special and general relativity.

A lively Victorian comic fantasy about a father and son who exchange bodies.

A transatlantic novel of marriage, inheritance, resilience, and social power.

A bestselling Edwardian romance about love, sacrifice, faith, illness, and second chances.

A beloved American novel about optimism, resilience, and the transforming force of a cheerful child.

Melville’s dark, experimental novel of inheritance, identity, secrecy, and moral confusion.

A visionary fantasy novel of dreams, death, spiritual awakening, and mythic transformation.

A major Victorian novel of marriage, jealousy, social pressure, and moral self-deception.

A major Victorian education classic on knowledge, character, science, health, and child development.

Saki’s brilliant short stories of wit, cruelty, surprise, and Edwardian social satire.

A foundational post-apocalyptic novel imagining wilderness, feudal society, and survival after civilization.

Lu Xun’s landmark modern Chinese story of paranoia, social violence, tradition, and awakening.

A major poetic meditation on human nature, providence, reason, order, and moral limitation.

A foundational essay on conscience, state power, tax resistance, and the moral limits of government.

A landmark conservative response to the French Revolution, tradition, reform, rights, and political order.

A lively eighteenth-century comedy of mistaken identity, courtship, class manners, and theatrical wit.

A major work of literary biography and criticism on English poets, taste, style, and reputation.

A sparkling comedy of language, romance, vanity, duels, and theatrical misunderstanding.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica is a public-domain classic of early modern science and skepticism.