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Bram Stoker · English
An archaeological horror novel of ancient Egypt, mesmerism, forbidden knowledge, and the dead.
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Bram Stoker · English
An archaeological horror novel of ancient Egypt, mesmerism, forbidden knowledge, and the dead.

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John Ruskin · English
A luminous fairy tale contrasting greed and generosity through mountains, rivers, and a mysterious golden king.

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E. Nesbit · English
A child’s city built from household objects becomes a living quest of towers, puzzles, danger, and courage.

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Edith Wharton · English
Two cousins confront family secrecy, motherhood, respectability, and sacrifice.

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Marie Corelli · English
A Victorian romance about innocence, artistic life, ambition, and the pressure of London society.

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Thomas Hardy · English
Five stories of rural desire, class, coincidence, moral pressure, and social custom.

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William Congreve · English
A sparkling marriage plot driven by wit, money, and shifting desire.

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Ben Jonson · English
A fast-moving con game in which every victim wants to believe.

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John Gay · English
A ballad opera where thieves, lovers, and politicians mirror one another.

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William Congreve · English
A comic tangle of courtship, disguise, and cynical bachelorhood.

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Ben Jonson · English
A dazzling comedy of greed built around a rich Venetian impostor.

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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
A lively canoe journey through rivers, friendship, weather, and wandering.

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Miguel de Cervantes · English
The first volume of the great comic novel of chivalry, reading, and reality.

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Du Fu · English
A selection of poems joining war, exile, family, history, friendship, and compassion.

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Charlotte Mary Yonge · English
A Victorian family novel about good intentions, charity, and unintended harm.

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Matsuo Bashō · English
A luminous travel diary blending landscapes, linked verse, memory, and impermanence.

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Xu Xiake · English
A journey across China’s mountains, rivers, caves, roads, and changing landscapes.

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Lu Xun · English
Essays of irony, cultural criticism, memory, and moral anger from one of modern China’s most incisive writers.

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Zhu Xi; Lü Zuqian · English
A Neo-Confucian anthology on self-cultivation, learning, moral discipline, and the ordering of everyday conduct.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A speculative Victorian novel asking what happens when unlimited wealth is placed in the hands of a man determined to remake society.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A comic historical adventure series narrated by a magnificently self-confident French cavalry officer during the Napoleonic wars.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A varied collection ranging from imperial adventure and war stories to crime, suspense, and tales of moral pressure.

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Thomas Hardy · English
A witty social novel about a poet’s widow who turns performance, secrecy, and ambition into a way through Victorian society.

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Rudyard Kipling · English
A celebrated novel of an artist confronting blindness, disappointed love, ambition, and the brutal demands of professional identity.