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Karl Pearson · English
A foundational philosophy-of-science work on method, causation, measurement, and scientific knowledge.
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Karl Pearson · English
A foundational philosophy-of-science work on method, causation, measurement, and scientific knowledge.

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Literature
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John Millington Synge · English
A landmark Irish drama of myth, scandal, rural speech, violence, romance, and comic identity.

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Virginia Woolf · English
Virginia Woolf’s debut novel, a modernist voyage into youth, society, selfhood, and emotional awakening.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · English
A complete English BooksWhale translation of Goethe’s Faust, joining philosophical drama, temptation, love, striving, and redemption.

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Peter Kropotkin · English
A classic political-economy study of decentralized production, agriculture, industry, and social cooperation.

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Marie Belloc Lowndes · English
A tense English crime classic about suspicion, domestic unease, and a mysterious London lodger.

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Arnold Bennett · English
A richly detailed English novel tracing two sisters, family life, aging, commerce, and social change.

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Robert Tressell · English
A landmark English social novel about labor, poverty, class power, and the moral cost of everyday exploitation.

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Economics
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Thorstein Veblen · English
A foundational economics text analyzing business enterprise, industry, finance, and modern capitalism.

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H. G. Wells · English
A sharp English social novel about advertising, commerce, ambition, class, and modern capitalism.

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Elizabeth von Arnim · English
A bestselling garden classic of wit, solitude, domestic observation, and quiet independence.

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W. H. Hudson · English
Hudson’s romantic forest novel of exile, mystery, nature, and the unforgettable Rima.

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Ernest Bramah · English
A clever detective-story collection centered on Max Carrados, a blind sleuth with extraordinary perception.

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George MacDonald · English
A foundational fantasy romance of fairyland, dream logic, temptation, beauty, and spiritual quest.

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Politics
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John Milton · English
Milton’s republican argument about tyranny, public authority, conscience, and political accountability.

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Literature
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Ernest Bramah · English
A witty Kai Lung collection mixing comic fantasy, storytelling, irony, and elegant invented Chinese manners.

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Economics
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John Ruskin · English
Ruskin’s influential critique of political economy, labor, wealth, justice, and social responsibility.

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Science
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D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson · English
A landmark study connecting biology, mathematics, morphology, and the visible forms of living organisms.

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Religion
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Anonymous · English
A medieval English guide to contemplative prayer, mystical devotion, and the hidden life of faith.

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History
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Thomas Carlyle · English
Carlyle’s dramatic history of the French Revolution, told with force, scale, and moral urgency.

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Literature
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Joseph Conrad · English
A late Conrad novel of isolation, moral danger, and psychological tension in the tropics.

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Wilkie Collins · English
A dark Victorian sensation novel of fate, murder, double identity, and manipulation.

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Anthony Trollope · English
The opening Palliser novel, rich in courtship, politics, money, and difficult choices.

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Wilkie Collins · English
A gripping sensation novel about inheritance, identity, illegitimacy, and revenge.