English Books

A wilderness novel of instinct, violence, survival, trust, and domestication.

A New York society novel of duty, desire, reputation, and emotional restraint.

A major psychological novel of independence, marriage, money, and moral choice.

A compact Civil War novel of fear, courage, shame, and battlefield perception.

Classic essays and tales including Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

A sonnet sequence of love, inward transformation, vulnerability, and devotion.

Metaphysical poems of love, wit, devotion, argument, and spiritual intensity.

A swashbuckling adventure of disguise, rescue, romance, and Revolutionary danger.

A haunted New England romance of family guilt, inheritance, secrecy, and moral renewal.

A memoir of travel, fraud, imprisonment, solitude, and a notorious transatlantic life.

A public-domain study of tipping, money habits, service culture, and everyday social pressure.

A substantial English novel of inheritance, disability, society, memory, and moral pressure.

A brisk early motoring romance of travel, chance encounters, social comedy, and adventure.

A political novel about power, machine politics, ambition, and New York public life.

The first volume of Malory’s Arthurian romance, presenting the rise of Arthur, chivalric quests, and the world of the Round Table.

Late Sherlock Holmes cases with puzzles of identity, violence, deception, and deduction.

A late Sherlock Holmes story of espionage, deduction, wartime danger, and Holmes’s final bow.

A landmark sensation novel of mystery, identity, conspiracy, and suspense.

A disturbing science-fiction classic about experiment, ethics, evolution, and humanity.

Kate Chopin’s classic novel of selfhood and desire presented with selected short stories.

Visionary English poems of innocence, experience, prophecy, imagination, and spiritual intensity.

A landmark scientific treatise on electricity, magnetism, fields, mathematics, and physical theory.

A warm coming-of-age novel about imagination, belonging, friendship, and life on Prince Edward Island.

Classic Sherlock Holmes stories of deduction, danger, disguise, and criminal puzzles.