English Books

Walter Scott’s medieval romance of knights, Saxons, Normans, tournaments, outlaw bands, and the return of Richard the Lionheart.

English edition of Kafka’s modernist novel about Josef K., invisible accusation, bureaucratic nightmare, guilt, and law.

An early American gothic novel of religious delusion, ventriloquism, fear, and family catastrophe.

Origin tales full of rhythm, wit, animals, invention, and Kipling’s playful storytelling voice.

A Revolutionary War novel of espionage, divided loyalties, patriotism, and secret sacrifice.

A powerful realist novel of ambition, desire, class pressure, crime, and moral collapse.

Bacon’s program for organizing knowledge, reforming study, and advancing useful learning.

A lucid analysis of cabinet government, monarchy, parliament, and Victorian political institutions.

Swift’s savage political satire on poverty, exploitation, policy language, and moral blindness.

Bacon’s landmark statement of induction, experiment, observation, and modern scientific method.

A classic anarchist argument about cooperation, labor, mutual aid, and social organization.

A deist critique of revealed religion, scripture, priestcraft, and religious authority.

Byron’s travel poem of exile, melancholy, politics, landscape, and the Byronic hero.

Keats’s mythic romance of beauty, desire, dream, transformation, and poetic apprenticeship.

Wordsworth’s great autobiographical poem on childhood, nature, imagination, memory, and poetic growth.

A founding Romantic poetry collection about nature, common life, imagination, memory, and feeling.

A transatlantic novel about marriage, wealth, travel, American identity, and emotional reinvention.

A medical novel about science, ambition, public health, research ethics, and institutional pressure.

A richly observed Victorian novel of family, inheritance, science, love, and provincial society.

Darwin’s travel narrative from the Beagle expedition, rich in geology, natural history, and observation.

A sentimental children’s classic about innocence, inheritance, class, and transatlantic family identity.

A Palliser novel built around jewels, legal claims, social ambition, and moral slipperiness.

A landmark psychological short story about confinement, medical authority, and a woman’s mind under pressure.

Trollope’s comic cathedral-town novel of church politics, ambition, courtship, and social maneuvering.