English Books

Essays of irony, cultural criticism, memory, and moral anger from one of modern China’s most incisive writers.

A Neo-Confucian anthology on self-cultivation, learning, moral discipline, and the ordering of everyday conduct.

A speculative Victorian novel asking what happens when unlimited wealth is placed in the hands of a man determined to remake society.

A comic historical adventure series narrated by a magnificently self-confident French cavalry officer during the Napoleonic wars.

A varied collection ranging from imperial adventure and war stories to crime, suspense, and tales of moral pressure.

A witty social novel about a poet’s widow who turns performance, secrecy, and ambition into a way through Victorian society.

A celebrated novel of an artist confronting blindness, disappointed love, ambition, and the brutal demands of professional identity.

A supernatural psychological novel about mesmerism, manipulation, desire, and the unsettling possibility of influence over another mind.

A lost-world adventure of exile, hidden kingdoms, forbidden love, danger, and the search for a people concealed beyond known maps.

A historical adventure moving from the French Wars of Religion to the New World, where exile, loyalty, and survival shape every choice.

An epistolary coming-of-age novel about a young doctor testing his ideals against medical practice, ambition, friendship, and society.

A desert travel narrative that turns a tourist excursion into a tense confrontation with violence, belief, fear, and cultural misunderstanding.

A Wessex romance set against the Napoleonic wars, balancing village loyalties, divided affections, and the arrival of soldiers.

A fast-moving medieval adventure of knights, archers, chivalry, and campaign life during the Hundred Years’ War.

A bold Victorian love story that places astronomy, social rank, marriage, and emotional risk beneath an open night sky.

A tender rural comedy about music, courtship, changing customs, and the fragile pleasures of a Dorset village community.

A madeleine, a remembered childhood, and the elusive workings of memory open Proust’s landmark novel cycle.

A new English translation opens Feng Menglong’s Ming-dynasty story collection, where desire, wit, justice, and sudden reversals shape everyday lives.

Three siblings discover a hidden garden, a sleeping princess, and a ring whose magic is less predictable than it seems.

Wilde’s fairy tales pair luminous, playful storytelling with sharp questions about poverty, kindness, beauty, and sacrifice.

A wish-granting carpet and a phoenix turn an ordinary family holiday into a brisk, funny adventure.

A substantial poetry collection tracing Keats’s sensuous language, classical imagination, and meditations on beauty and mortality.

At Elizabeth I’s court, Amy Robsart’s secret marriage to the ambitious Earl of Leicester becomes a perilous contest between love and power.

Samuel Smiles’s influential Victorian guide uses biographies of inventors, reformers, and workers to argue for perseverance and self-education.