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Catharine Maria Sedgwick · English
Hope Leslie is a public-domain classic of colonial New England, conscience and female agency.
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick · English
Hope Leslie is a public-domain classic of colonial New England, conscience and female agency.

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Hannah Webster Foster · English
The Coquette is a public-domain classic of letters, reputation, desire and early American society.

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Jonathan Swift · English
A brilliant satire on books, religion, authorship, digression, and the noisy print culture of Swift’s age.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan · English
A sparkling comedy of reputation, gossip, marriage, hypocrisy, and social performance in fashionable London.

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Booth Tarkington · English
A Pulitzer Prize-winning American novel of class anxiety, family ambition, self-invention, and social embarrassment.

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George MacDonald · English
A lyrical children’s fantasy about Diamond, the North Wind, poverty, wonder, death, and consolation.

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Benjamin Disraeli · English
A political novel about youth, aristocracy, reform, party identity, and the future of Victorian Britain.

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Oscar Wilde · English
A public-domain Oscar Wilde poetry collection including The Ballad of Reading Gaol and earlier poems on beauty, desire, liberty, art, faith, and suffering.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton · English
A Victorian family novel of books, inheritance, domestic affection, learning, ambition, and comic observation.

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Maria Susanna Cummins · English
A bestselling American sentimental novel of orphanhood, kindness, class mobility, education, and moral growth.

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Hall Caine · English
A Victorian bestseller of friendship, love, betrayal, conscience, and social judgment on the Isle of Man.

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Jane Porter · English
A bestselling historical romance of William Wallace, patriotism, heroism, loyalty, and Scottish resistance.

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William Hazlitt · English
A vivid portrait gallery of Romantic-era writers, thinkers, politicians, critics, and public personalities.

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Susan Warner · English
A landmark American domestic novel of childhood, faith, separation, discipline, and emotional endurance.

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Frances Burney · English
A major eighteenth-century novel of courtship, family pressure, youthful error, money, reputation, and social judgment.

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Clara Reeve · English
An influential early Gothic romance of inheritance, hidden crime, family honor, and supernatural justice.

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Rudyard Kipling · English
A sequence of historical tales where English history, folklore, childhood, landscape, and memory meet.

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Anna Katharine Green · English
A pioneering detective novel of murder, inheritance, evidence, suspicion, and courtroom-style investigation.

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Ann Radcliffe · English
A landmark Gothic romance of flight, ruined abbeys, persecution, secrecy, and emotional suspense.

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Marie Corelli · English
A sensational Victorian bestseller about literary fame, temptation, wealth, publishing, morality, and the devil.

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Mary Shelley · English
Mary Shelley’s historical novel of medieval Italy, political ambition, republican ideals, love, and moral conflict.

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W. H. Hudson · English
A visionary romance of the future, pastoral utopia, altered society, and ecological imagination.

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William Godwin · English
A radical Enlightenment argument on justice, reason, government, property, and human improvement.

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Charles Kingsley · English
A historical novel of Alexandria, philosophy, faith, political conflict, and late antique crisis.