English Books

A historical novel of Pompeii before Vesuvius, mixing romance, religion, politics, and catastrophe.

Dickens’s historical novel of mystery, family secrets, public violence, and the Gordon Riots of 1780.

A Dickens satire of selfishness, inheritance, hypocrisy, America, architecture, and moral conversion.

A Scottish historical novel of law, conscience, sisterhood, public unrest, and Jeanie Deans’s journey.

A tragic Scott romance of family feud, doomed love, political ambition, and Scottish Gothic atmosphere.

A Crusades romance featuring Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, chivalry, disguise, illness, and honor.

A compact Dickens novel about factories, utilitarian education, class pressure, and the human cost of hard facts.

A nineteenth-century travel narrative of the American West, the plains, frontier movement, and encounter.

A high-fantasy epic of Demonland, Witchland, heroic rivalry, archaic style, and mythic warfare.

Four women rent an Italian castle and discover renewal, friendship, desire, and comic self-knowledge.

Cather’s elegiac portrait of Marian Forrester, frontier memory, social change, and lost ideals.

A meditative New Mexico novel of faith, landscape, friendship, mission, and cultural encounter.

A landmark sea memoir of merchant sailing, California before statehood, labor, weather, and maritime discipline.

A visionary weird-fiction novel where an isolated house opens onto cosmic horror and collapsing time.

A dark Gothic labyrinth of temptation, imprisonment, wandering, and a soul-selling bargain.

A medieval-style romance of quest, love, peril, and the search for a life-giving well.

Faraday’s famous lectures explain flame, combustion, air, water, carbon, and scientific observation through a candle.

Taylor’s influential management classic on labor efficiency, time study, incentives, supervision, and industrial organization.

A Venetian novella of literary obsession, private papers, manipulation, aging, and the ethics of biography.

A bold imperial adventure about two drifters, a remote kingdom, false divinity, ambition, and catastrophic overreach.

Early Kipling stories of colonial India, sharp social observation, Anglo-Indian speech, ambition, loneliness, and irony.

Father Brown solves paradoxical crimes through moral insight, comic logic, theology, disguise, and human weakness.

A compact American tale of sleep, folklore, revolution, village memory, and the strange cost of returning home.

Personal essays rich in memory, humor, London life, reading, friendship, and gentle melancholy.