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The Flaming Forest

James Oliver Curwood · English

An injured Canadian police officer is drawn into a river journey filled with hidden loyalties, danger, and an approaching forest fire.

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The Great Impersonation

E. Phillips Oppenheim · English

A meeting between lookalikes in Africa leads to a tense struggle over identity, espionage, and trust in prewar English society.

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Stewart Edward White · English

Two men pursue a fugitive through the Canadian wilderness, where endurance, divided loyalties, and local knowledge shape an unforgiving journey.

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The Whirlpool

George Gissing · English

London ambition, musical aspiration, and financial uncertainty draw a marriage into the restless pressures of late Victorian society.

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Sinking and Other Stories

Yu Dafu · English

Seven stories by Yu Dafu explore loneliness, desire, poverty, and the troubled self-awareness of young people facing an uncertain modern world.

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Songs of Chu

Qu Yuan and other poets · English

Seventeen groups of classical Chinese poems explore exile, ritual, questioning, grief, and imagined journeys through the world of Chu.

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A Certain Rich Man

William Allen White · English

A Kansas financier’s rise exposes the costs of ambition, inequality, and the pursuit of wealth in small-town America.

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The Market-Place

Harold Frederic · English

A London speculator’s financial schemes turn social ambition and intimate relationships into a sharp study of money and power.

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Tang Xianzu · English

Du Liniang’s dream-born love crosses death and the demands of family in Tang Xianzu’s celebrated fifty-five-scene romantic drama.

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Youth and the Bright Medusa

Willa Cather · English

Eight stories follow artists, performers, and restless outsiders whose desires collide with convention, ambition, and the costs of beauty.

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Ann Veronica

H. G. Wells · English

A young woman challenges family authority and Victorian convention while searching for education, independence, and an honest understanding of love.

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The Human Drift

Jack London · English

Jack London brings migration, seafaring, failed enterprise, and human conflict together in a collection of essays, recollections, and two plays.

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The New Machiavelli

H. G. Wells · English

A politician’s account of ambition and an illicit relationship exposes the tension between public reform, private desire, and social respectability.

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Selected Poems of Li Bai

Li Bai · English

Li Bai's selected poems explore mountains, travel, wine, friendship, parting, ambition, and exile in a new English translation.

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The Crux

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · English

Gilman's novel follows Vivian Lane from a New England community toward new choices about work, marriage, and health.

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Afoot in England

W. H. Hudson · English

Hudson’s English walking essays find unexpected stories in village roads, old buildings, birds, landscapes, and encounters with strangers.

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The Head of the House of Coombe

Frances Hodgson Burnett · English

A neglected child grows up amid fashionable London society as Lord Coombe’s guarded interventions complicate appearances, loyalties, and love.

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A Roman Singer

F. Marion Crawford · English

A young tenor’s musical ambitions and forbidden affection unfold through the recollections of the philosopher who raised him.

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Annie Kilburn

William Dean Howells · English

A woman returning to New England confronts class privilege, charitable ambitions and the difficult realities of workers’ lives.

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