English Books

A Leatherstocking adventure of scouting, war, loyalty, and romance around the Great Lakes frontier.

Irving’s collection of European sketches, supernatural anecdotes, traveler’s tales, and comic observation.

A mature Emerson essay collection on fate, power, wealth, culture, behavior, beauty, and illusion.

A focused Emerson essay collection on intellect, character, friendship, heroism, nature, poetry, prudence, and moral independence.

Carlyle contrasts medieval monastic order with modern industrial unrest and social responsibility.

London’s firsthand account of poverty, labor, housing, and survival in London’s East End.

The first Barsetshire novel, centered on conscience, charity, reform, journalism, and church income.

Twain’s comic memoir of the American West, mining camps, stagecoaches, newspapers, and frontier myth.

A comic travel narrative through Europe and the Holy Land, full of satire, observation, and cultural collision.

A Scottish adventure of betrayal, flight, friendship, and Jacobite danger after a stolen inheritance.

Twain’s Tudor tale swaps a beggar and a prince to test justice, power, class, and mercy.

Locke’s foundational defense of natural rights, consent, property, resistance, and limited government.

Richardson’s monumental epistolary novel explores family pressure, coercion, virtue, reputation, and psychological conflict.

An English edition of the Daoist classic on freedom, transformation, language, dreams, usefulness, and wandering beyond fixed distinctions.

A philosophical tale in which Prince Rasselas searches for happiness, wisdom, vocation, solitude, power, and human limits.

Dickens’s exuberant first novel follows Mr. Pickwick through comic travel, law, debt, friendship, and bustling English life.

Defoe reconstructs London’s 1665 plague through observation, rumor, mortality bills, fear, charity, and civic disorder.

A sharp social panorama centered on Becky Sharp, ambition, marriage markets, war, money, and moral performance.

Thomas Paine’s defense of popular sovereignty, natural rights, and political reform in the age of revolution.

Adam Smith’s moral philosophy of sympathy, conscience, virtue, and social judgment.

Robert Burton’s encyclopedic study of melancholy, medicine, learning, religion, and human temperament.

A mathematical satire that imagines a two-dimensional world and the shock of higher dimensions.

A foundational mercantilist argument about trade balance, national wealth, and early modern commerce.

A socialist utopian romance imagining work, beauty, fellowship, and daily life after industrial capitalism.