English Books

A drawing-room drama of youth, marriage, and the social rules that adults prefer not to name.

Essays on work, traffic, war, and the moral purpose of art in modern industrial society.

Quietly devastating stories of poverty, failed ambition, loneliness, and the fragile dignity of ordinary lives.

Island storms, buried treasure, and moral dread shape Stevenson’s atmospheric tales of the sea.

A Marseille artist is drawn into a dangerous network of revolutionaries and smugglers.

A sweeping Crusades adventure of brotherhood, captivity, faith, and chivalry.

A forceful narrative of the Revolution from the fall of the Bastille to the Terror.

A young heir travels through England’s past to recover a family fortune.

A political marriage tested by ambition, public life, and conflicting ideals.

A master mariner’s vivid memoir of ships, storms, discipline, and the sea.

A young officer’s first command becomes a test of courage and moral maturity.

A well-meaning child gang turns good intentions into comic calamities.

Dickens’s observant travel account of American cities, institutions, prisons, schools, railways, and public manners.

A brisk Scottish adventure of abduction, flight, political intrigue, and hard-won identity.

A political and legal novel of ambition, reputation, parliamentary power, romance, and a dangerous accusation.

Outrageous travel tales of impossible battles, astonishing escapes, and comic self-invention.

A country-house comedy and social novel about marriage, land, reform, class, and the shock of an outsider’s judgment.

A witty anatomy of status-seeking, social vanity, inherited privilege, and the elaborate performance of respectability.

A Christmas parable about poverty, social responsibility, despair, and the possibility of moral awakening.

A richly layered historical novel of New Orleans, family inheritance, race, and moral conflict after the Louisiana Purchase.

A lavish Gothic fantasy of forbidden knowledge, sensual excess, prophecy, and damnation.

A Dickensian journey through cruelty, theatricality, family loyalty, comic villains, and social conscience.

The pioneering biography of Charlotte Brontë, her family, Haworth life, literary ambition, illness, and grief.

A dark sea voyage combining shipwreck, mutiny, exploration, terror, and the unknown beyond the map.