English Books

A tightly shaped New York novel about inheritance, courtship, parental control, and quiet resistance.

A searching American novel of faith, ambition, temptation, and intellectual disillusionment.

A Roman romance of art, innocence, secrecy, and guilt by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A complex novel of inheritance, illness, love, and moral calculation in London and Venice.

A social novel about love, class pressure, family duty, and a woman judged by public convention.

Mill’s major work on induction, scientific method, reasoning, evidence, and social science.

A landmark argument for women’s equality, legal reform, liberty, education, and marriage rights.

Newton’s classic experiments on light, color, prisms, reflection, refraction, and scientific method.

A detailed military study of Chancellorsville, command decisions, maneuver, terrain, and Civil War strategy.

A public-domain abridged edition of Mill’s economics text on production, distribution, trade, taxation, and reform.

Hogarth’s influential art treatise on line, movement, variety, grace, and visual composition.

A Puritan classic on pastoral duty, preaching, discipline, conscience, and care of souls.

A dramatic historical narrative of crowds, monarchy, terror, and revolutionary energy in France.

Dewey’s compact argument for active learning, democracy, experience, and school reform.

A nineteenth-century narrative of Pizarro, the Inca Empire, conquest, conflict, and empire.

Faraday’s experimental papers on electricity, induction, electrochemistry, magnetism, fields, and scientific method.

Keynes’s influential critique of the Versailles settlement, reparations, Europe’s economy, and postwar instability.

Boswell’s landmark biography of Samuel Johnson, conversation, literary London, character, wit, and memory.

A Puritan devotional classic on heavenly rest, meditation, repentance, hope, and disciplined Christian life.

Bacon’s utopian fiction of Salomon’s House, knowledge, experiment, science, travel, and social order.

Hume’s major work on ideas, causation, belief, personal identity, passion, morals, and human understanding.

A philosophical dialogue on design, skepticism, religious belief, evidence, analogy, and natural theology.

Locke’s foundational study of ideas, knowledge, experience, language, identity, and the limits of understanding.

A classic study of conversion, mysticism, saintliness, melancholy, pragmatism, and individual religious life.