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A coastal Rougon-Macquart novel about illness, inheritance, pessimism, sacrifice, and Pauline Quenu’s moral steadiness.

An early Balzac story of shopkeeping Paris, artistic desire, marriage, and the painful mismatch between worlds.

Zola’s rural novel confronts land hunger, inheritance, family violence, peasant labor, and the harsh material life of Beauce.

Mörike’s elegant novella imagines Mozart in transit to Prague, blending music, hospitality, charm, and mortality.

Zola’s apartment-house novel exposes bourgeois manners, adultery, servants, commerce, and hypocrisy in Second Empire Paris.

Proudhon’s provocative political classic examines property, labor, justice, equality, and social order.

Fichte’s addresses link national renewal, education, language, civic formation, and political identity in Napoleonic Europe.

Zola’s political Rougon-Macquart novel studies power, patronage, bureaucracy, salons, and ambition under Napoleon III.

Antero’s sonnets combine metaphysical doubt, moral intensity, political disappointment, suffering, and disciplined lyric form.

Wharton’s intense rural novella follows Charity Royall through desire, class constraint, shame, and the limits of escape.

A coastal historical novel of love, press-gangs, Quaker witness, family loyalty, and wartime trauma in Yorkshire.

Henry James’s American novel explores reform politics, public speech, feminism, rivalry, and emotional possession in Boston.

Jack London’s dystopian political novel imagines oligarchy, class war, labor movements, repression, and revolutionary memory.

Virginia Woolf’s modernist novel of the Ramsay family, time, memory, art, grief, and perception in a French BooksWhale edition.

A daring James novel that sees divorce, adult selfishness, desire, and moral confusion through a child’s changing awareness.

Kant’s concise political essay proposes conditions for peace, republican government, international law, and cosmopolitan right.

徐光启综合农学、水利、作物、蚕桑、荒政与农业治理，是中国古代科技、农业实践和民生制度的重要经典。

李贽思想文集锋利讨论礼教、真伪、童心、学问与权威，是晚明思想史中极具争议、极具启发性的经典文本。

Novella verista di Verga su passione, gelosia, onore e violenza nella Sicilia rurale.

Stifters Erzählung über Erziehung, Einsamkeit, Besitz, Familienbindung und die langsame Erkenntnis des Herzens.

Historische Waldnovelle Stifters über Krieg, Rückzug, Naturgewalt, Schutz und tragische Familiengeschichte.

Drama de Lope de Vega donde el rey restaura la justicia frente al abuso nobiliario y la violencia contra los humildes.

E. Nesbit’s children’s fantasy sends five siblings into wish-making adventures with the strange sand-fairy Psammead.

Commedia pirandelliana su onore, pazzia sociale, reputazione, matrimonio e maschere quotidiane.