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James Joyce · English
A public-domain classic of artistic awakening, identity, religion, and modernist style, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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James Joyce · English
A public-domain classic of artistic awakening, identity, religion, and modernist style, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Anonymous · English
A public-domain classic of heroic battle, monsters, kingship, and early epic poetry, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Francis Bacon · English
A public-domain classic of practical wisdom, politics, learning, and human conduct, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Jacob A. Riis · English
A public-domain classic of urban poverty, immigration, housing, and social reform, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Harriet Jacobs · English
A public-domain classic of slavery, resistance, family, and self-emancipation, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Jane Austen · English
A public-domain classic of family, morality, social rank, and inward judgment, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Isaac Newton · English
A public-domain classic of motion, gravity, mathematics, and the foundations of physics, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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William Wordsworth · English
A public-domain classic of nature, memory, childhood, feeling, and Romantic poetry, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Daniel Defoe · English
A public-domain classic of shipwreck, survival, empire, labor, and solitude, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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G. K. Chesterton · English
A public-domain classic of epic poetry, legend, faith, and national memory, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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William Shakespeare · English
A public-domain classic of tragedy, comedy, history, poetry, and dramatic language, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Olaudah Equiano · English
A public-domain classic of enslavement, freedom, travel, and abolitionist witness, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Walter Scott · English
A public-domain classic of romance, Highland landscape, conflict, and narrative verse, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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John Forster · English
A public-domain classic of literary biography, Victorian publishing, friendship, and authorship, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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G. K. Chesterton · English
A public-domain classic of anarchist conspiracy, metaphysical comedy, and paradox, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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William Blake · English
A public-domain classic of prophetic poetry, contraries, imagination, and spiritual rebellion, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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H. G. Wells · English
A public-domain classic of world history, civilization, science, and human development, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Christopher Marlowe · English
A public-domain classic of ambition, knowledge, temptation, and Renaissance tragedy, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Lewis Carroll · English
A public-domain classic of nonsense, childhood imagination, chess, and verbal play, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Thomas More · English
A public-domain classic of ideal society, law, property, politics, and satire, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.
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Charles Dickens · English
A vast Dickens novel of law, inheritance, secrecy, poverty, and moral vision.
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu · English
A Gothic vampire tale of fascination, dread, intimacy, and supernatural danger.
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Lord Byron · English
Byron's comic epic turns seduction, travel, politics, and society into dazzling satire.
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Jane Austen · English
Austen's comedy of self-knowledge follows matchmaking, misreading, class, and quiet transformation.