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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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William Dean Howells · English
A young countryman’s arrival in Boston tests a minister’s good intentions against class prejudice, work, and personal responsibility.

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John Muir · English
John Muir recalls a Scottish childhood, hard work on a Wisconsin farm, and the curiosity that shaped his life.

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Pu Songling · English
Pu Songling’s fourth through sixth original volumes bring fox spirits, ghosts, scholars, and uncanny reversals together in English Volume Two.

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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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John Galsworthy · English
Twenty-six essays turn encounters with workers, animals, landscapes, and theatre into reflections on sympathy, social judgment, and artistic freedom.

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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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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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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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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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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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Anonymous · English
Mountains, seas, strange creatures, distant peoples, and ancient myths unfold across all eighteen chapters of the Chinese classic.

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