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Richard Marsh · English
A bestselling Victorian horror novel of mesmerism, pursuit, disguise, and supernatural menace.
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Richard Marsh · English
A bestselling Victorian horror novel of mesmerism, pursuit, disguise, and supernatural menace.

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Ford Madox Ford · English
A modernist classic of unreliable narration, marriage, betrayal, memory, and moral blindness.

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Olive Schreiner · English
A South African literary classic about childhood, gender, belief, freedom, and colonial life.

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William Beckford · English
A dark Gothic Oriental tale of forbidden knowledge, ambition, luxury, and damnation.

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George Meredith · English
A Victorian society novel about wit, reputation, marriage, and a brilliant woman under pressure.

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Thomas Love Peacock · English
A witty country-house satire of systems, reformers, appetite, and argument.

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Walter Scott · English
A Scottish historical novel of rebellion, memory, religious conflict, and divided loyalty.

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Charles Dickens · English
Dickens’s dark late novel of inheritance, identity, waste, class, and moral renewal.

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William Makepeace Thackeray · English
A Victorian coming-of-age novel about ambition, vanity, journalism, love, and self-knowledge.

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William Makepeace Thackeray · English
A generous Victorian family chronicle of money, marriage, art, class, and moral feeling.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs · English
John Carter’s leap to Barsoom launches sword-and-planet adventure at full speed.

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Henry Adams · English
Washington politics becomes a sharp comedy of ambition, influence, and moral compromise.

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Sinclair Lewis · English
A fierce satire of American revivalism, salesmanship, celebrity, and spiritual hunger.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald · English
Fitzgerald studies beauty, money, marriage, and drift before the glamour curdles.

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Theodore Dreiser · English
An artist’s hunger for beauty and success becomes a restless study of desire.

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Booth Tarkington · English
A proud family declines as automobiles, industry, and modern manners remake America.

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Theodore Dreiser · English
Frank Cowperwood expands his empire through finance, politics, desire, and ruthless charm.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald · English
Youth, privilege, love, and restlessness define Fitzgerald’s first Jazz Age breakthrough.

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Jeremy Taylor · English
A seventeenth-century devotional classic on mortality, preparation, repentance, and Christian hope.

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Jeremy Taylor · English
Jeremy Taylor gives practical Anglican guidance on devotion, discipline, charity, and daily holiness.

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G. K. Chesterton · English
Chesterton answers modern history with a sweeping Christian vision of humanity and Christ.

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Herman Melville · English
A haunting Wall Street tale of refusal, office routine, alienation, and moral bewilderment.

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George Eliot · English
A political and social novel about reform, inheritance, conscience, and class conflict.

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George Eliot · English
Three early George Eliot stories about clergy, provincial life, sympathy, and moral trial.