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Thomas Hardy · English
A tragic rural novel of innocence, social judgment, desire, and fate.
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Thomas Hardy · English
A tragic rural novel of innocence, social judgment, desire, and fate.
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Mark Twain · English
A lively boyhood adventure of mischief, friendship, fear, and moral awakening on the Mississippi.
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Washington Irving · English
A ghostly American tale of superstition, rivalry, and the Headless Horseman.
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Silvanus P. Thompson · English
A famously approachable introduction to differential and integral calculus.
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James Joyce · English
A landmark story collection portraying ordinary Dublin lives with restraint and emotional force.
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Walt Whitman · English
A landmark poetry collection of self, body, democracy, nature, and American voice.
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Mozi · English
An English edition of the Mohist classic on universal care, merit, frugality, and social order.
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John Stuart Mill · English
A classic argument for individual freedom, open debate, and limits on social authority.
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John Milton · English
Milton’s epic poem of rebellion, temptation, loss, and the fall of humankind.
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Benjamin Franklin · English
A foundational American autobiography about self-education, civic life, work, and character.
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G. K. Chesterton · English
Detective stories where paradox, moral insight, and quiet observation solve strange crimes.
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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A collection of Sherlock Holmes stories marking the detective’s dramatic return.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge · English
A haunting Romantic poem of guilt, wonder, punishment, and spiritual transformation.
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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A Sherlock Holmes novel of mystery, treasure, pursuit, deduction, and imperial shadows.
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Henry James · English
A haunted and ambiguous novella of fear, perception, childhood, and psychological pressure.
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Solomon Northup · English
A powerful firsthand narrative of kidnapping, enslavement, endurance, and the fight for freedom.
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Joseph Conrad · English
A dark novella of empire, violence, narration, and moral uncertainty.
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Mark Twain · English
A memoir of river life, steamboats, memory, humor, and American change.
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Mary Wollstonecraft · English
A moving collection of letters about love, vulnerability, disappointment, and independence.
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Frederick Douglass · English
A powerful autobiographical account of slavery, literacy, resistance, and the struggle for freedom.
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Tobias Smollett · English
A vigorous picaresque novel of sea life, social climbing, hardship, and satire.
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Edgar Lee Masters · English
A poetic portrait of a town told through voices from the grave.
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Tobias Smollett · English
A picaresque novel of deception, social ambition, schemes, and moral danger.
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L. M. Montgomery · English
A warm novel of late self-discovery, courage, romance, and escape from family pressure.