English Books

Naturalist short fiction of shipwreck, war, fear, chance, urban hardship, and human endurance.

A prairie novel of land, family duty, immigrant endurance, and Alexandra Bergson’s hard-won vision.

Washington’s autobiography of emancipation, schooling, Tuskegee, self-help, race, and public leadership.

James’s accessible lectures on truth, belief, experience, pluralism, religion, and practical consequences.

A hugely influential utopian novel of future Boston, nationalized industry, equality, and social order.

A luminous memory novel of immigrant childhood, prairie labor, friendship, desire, and American place.

Conrad’s sea tale of first command, fire, danger, memory, imperial routes, and youthful illusion.

James’s essays on belief, doubt, rationality, moral choice, religion, and the risks of decision.

Kropotkin’s argument that cooperation, not only competition, shapes animals, humans, and society.

A public-domain original edition centered on emotion, facial expression, gesture, fear, grief, rage, joy, animals, and evolutionary continuity.

A public-domain original edition centered on Egdon Heath, Eustacia Vye, Clym Yeobright, marriage, longing, provincial custom, and Hardy’s tragic Wessex imagination.

A public-domain original edition centered on Lambert Strether’s Paris mission, American innocence, European society, moral perception, missed chances, and James’s late style.

A public-domain original edition centered on the origin of Tarzan, jungle survival, lost inheritance, language, identity, adventure, and early pulp fiction.

A public-domain original edition centered on faith, doubt, medicine, mortality, charity, reason, tolerance, and seventeenth-century English prose.

A public-domain original edition centered on applied psychology, labor, vocation, fatigue, attention, selection, advertising, and workplace performance.

A public-domain original edition centered on population growth, scarcity, food supply, poverty, wages, welfare, and classical political economy.

A public-domain original edition centered on prayer, humility, charity, discipline, money, pride, daily Christian conduct, and practical devotion.

A public-domain original edition centered on goblin fruit, sisterhood, temptation, rescue, devotion, mortality, and Victorian lyric music.

A public-domain original edition centered on modernist short stories of class, childhood, family tension, servants, illness, and sudden emotional revelation.

A public-domain original edition centered on desire, marriage, loneliness, social masks, dinner-table unease, and Mansfield’s precise modernist short fiction.

A public-domain original edition centered on Jacob Flanders, absence, memory, youth, rooms, letters, war, and Woolf’s early experimental modernism.

A sharp novel of railroads, finance, political favors, and ruthless ambition in American capitalism.

Henry James’s late novel of marriage, perception, hidden betrayal, and psychological strategy.

A realist portrait of business success, social aspiration, and moral testing in Gilded Age Boston.