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A major French Romantic meditation on solitude, Alpine landscape, melancholy, doubt, and the restless modern self.

Early Kipling stories of colonial India, sharp social observation, Anglo-Indian speech, ambition, loneliness, and irony.

A compact American tale of sleep, folklore, revolution, village memory, and the strange cost of returning home.

A vivid emigration voyage narrative of Atlantic crossing, shipboard society, class, hope, fear, and Italian diaspora.

A Venetian novella of literary obsession, private papers, manipulation, aging, and the ethics of biography.

Faraday’s famous lectures explain flame, combustion, air, water, carbon, and scientific observation through a candle.

A bold imperial adventure about two drifters, a remote kingdom, false divinity, ambition, and catastrophic overreach.

Taylor’s influential management classic on labor efficiency, time study, incentives, supervision, and industrial organization.

Father Brown solves paradoxical crimes through moral insight, comic logic, theology, disguise, and human weakness.

徳田秋声の代表的自然主義小説。お島の生、労働、結婚、欲望、独立心を力強く描く。

島崎藤村の長編小説。旧家、親族、相続、近代化、個人と家制度の重圧を描く。

国木田独歩の短編。青年の会話、理想、貧しさ、食卓、近代的感傷と現実感が交差する。

儒家礼制经典，集中讨论礼、乐、祭祀、丧服、教育、家庭秩序和政治伦理。

王充的东汉思想名著，以理性辩难批判迷信、天人感应、灾异和俗说。

A foundational science-fiction novella about time travel, class, evolution, and the far future.

Personal essays rich in memory, humor, London life, reading, friendship, and gentle melancholy.

A pastoral classic of fishing, riverside conversation, practical lore, songs, and contemplative leisure.

A major slave narrative tracing capture, Atlantic slavery, freedom, travel, faith, and abolition.

A dark Scottish classic of fanaticism, double identity, guilt, and psychological pursuit.

Uma sátira breve sobre adultério, comércio, honra burguesa e cálculo social em Lisboa.

Une nouvelle fantastique sur Pompéi, désir, vestiges antiques et apparition du passé.

An Italian political and psychological novel about conscience, love, faith, and public life.

Eine deutsche Ausgabe der christlichen Allegorie über Pilgerschaft, Versuchung, Glauben und Erlösung.

Un roman chinois de la fin des Qing sur diplomatie, élites, scandales, réforme et monde moderne.