English Books

Micrographia explores microscopy, insects, plants, materials, and scientific observation.

Othello explores love, jealousy, manipulation, trust, reputation, and betrayal.

Pelham explores fashion, rivalry, manners, reputation, and sophisticated society.

Rienzi explores medieval Rome, political reform, popular power, and revolution.

The Lady of the Shroud explores veiled apparitions, Balkan politics, inheritance, romance, and suspense.

The Lair of the White Worm explores ancient evil, monstrous folklore, inheritance, and a cursed landscape.

The Poet at the Breakfast-Table explores poetry, science, medicine, friendship, memory, and conversation.

The Scholars, Volume One explores civil examinations, scholars, reputation, hypocrisy and social ambition.

The Tempest explores shipwreck, magic, exile, revenge, freedom, forgiveness, and art.

Zanoni explores immortality, occult initiation, love, ambition, and forbidden knowledge.

A cosmic-horror story in which an ancient presence reaches into dreams, cults, and the fragile limits of human knowledge.

A rural New England tragedy caused by an influence that falls from the sky and resists every ordinary explanation.

A rural Massachusetts family attempts to bring an impossible birth and an older-than-human power into the world.

A comic children’s adventure in which the Bastable children invent schemes to restore their family fortunes.

A collection of armchair mysteries solved through logic, newspaper evidence, and a sharp eye for contradictions.

A man wakes after centuries of sleep to find that technology has created a wealthy ruling class and a deeply unequal future.

A speculative war novel that imagines aviation transforming modern conflict, cities, and political power.

A visionary science-fiction history of atomic energy, world war, and the political reconstruction of civilization.

A wandering Revolutionary War veteran’s life story, shaped by exile, disguise, memory, and the unstable promises of national glory.

A young sailor’s first voyage from New York to Liverpool, told through shipboard labor, hunger, class, and uneasy encounters abroad.

A late Palliser novel about a widowed duke, his headstrong children, marriage choices, and the changing values of Victorian society.

A lively Parisian notebook of satire, art criticism, street observation, and cosmopolitan sketches.

A collection of Melville’s most atmospheric short fiction, from quiet pastoral mystery to the moral darkness of “Benito Cereno.”

A sailor’s detailed account of life aboard a man-of-war, combining nautical adventure with an indictment of military discipline and cruelty.