English Books

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.

James Joyce's modernist landmark following one day in Dublin through memory, language, and consciousness.

Chaucer's vivid pilgrimage collection of tales, voices, satire, devotion, humor, and social life.

A humane animal classic that tells a horse's life through kindness, hardship, and moral witness.

A sweeping historical novel of revenge, faith, friendship, and transformation in the Roman world.

A lucid philosophical inquiry into knowledge, causation, probability, miracles, and human understanding.

A foundational work of political philosophy on authority, fear, covenant, and sovereignty.

A classic defense of utility, happiness, moral judgment, liberty, and social ethics.

A sea adventure of coercion, survival, intellect, violence, and moral awakening.

A landmark argument for women’s education, reason, equality, and civic dignity.

A stark New England tragedy of desire, silence, poverty, and irreversible choice.

A children’s classic of imagination, hardship, kindness, dignity, and inner courage.

A sharp society novel of beauty, money, reputation, and social ruin.

A brilliant satire of ambition, marriage, money, status, and American social mobility.

A compact transatlantic novella of innocence, manners, judgment, and social ambiguity.

A naturalist novel of ambition, desire, urban life, theatre, and social drift.

A warm children’s classic of family loss, railway life, bravery, and generosity.

The complete sonnet sequence of beauty, time, love, jealousy, and poetic memory.

Compressed lyric poems of death, faith, nature, consciousness, and astonishment.

Romantic poems of beauty, mortality, sensation, myth, and imaginative longing.

Romantic poems of liberty, imagination, nature, revolt, and visionary music.