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Maria Edgeworth · English
A sharp Anglo-Irish novel of estate decline, unreliable narration, family power, and social change.
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Maria Edgeworth · English
A sharp Anglo-Irish novel of estate decline, unreliable narration, family power, and social change.

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Jean Webster · English
A witty epistolary campus novel about education, independence, gratitude, secrecy, and self-discovery.

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Jean Webster · English
A lively sequel of letters about orphan care, reform, friendship, stubborn affection, and practical idealism.

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Edward Bellamy · English
A utopian political sequel exploring industrial organization, economic justice, citizenship, labor, and equality.

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Thomas Browne · English
A meditative prose classic on burial, mortality, memory, antiquity, and the fragile ambition of human fame.

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Wilkie Collins · English
A sensation novel about marriage law, athletic culture, deception, inheritance, and social hypocrisy.

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Edward Lear · English
Edward Lear’s collected nonsense classics, including limericks, comic songs, alphabets, botany, and playful rhymes.

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Benjamin Disraeli · English
A social and political novel about class division, industrial England, reform, poverty, and national identity.

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James Weldon Johnson · English
A powerful early twentieth-century novel on race, passing, music, identity, violence, and American society.

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Willa Cather · English
A major American artist novel about music, ambition, immigrant communities, landscape, discipline, and vocation.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. · English
A classic literature work on table-talk essays, humor, memory, books, society, and humane reflection.

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Jonathan Swift · English
A classic literature work on ancient and modern learning, literary pride, satire, libraries, and mock-heroic wit.

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William Strunk Jr. · English
A classic education work on English usage, composition, grammar, concision, clarity, and practical writing style.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe · English
A classic literature work on New England faith, courtship, conscience, family feeling, and community life.

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Woodrow Wilson · English
A classic politics work on Progressive Era reform, democracy, monopoly power, competition, and public responsibility.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs · English
A classic literature work on lost-world adventure, survival, prehistoric danger, exploration, and pulp imagination.

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Zane Grey · English
A classic literature work on Texas frontier justice, outlaw country, danger, loyalty, and redemption.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs · English
A classic literature work on jungle adventure, espionage, lost treasure, travel, survival, and heroic return.

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Edmund Spenser · English
A monumental English Renaissance epic of holiness, virtue, chivalry, allegory, and political imagination.

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William Morris · English
A historical-socialist romance linking the Peasants’ Revolt, labor, justice, and social hope.

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Thomas De Quincey · English
A haunting Romantic memoir of memory, addiction, dreams, suffering, and the inner life.

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Matthew Arnold · English
A classic Victorian argument about culture, education, social order, criticism, and public life.

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Herbert Spencer · English
A Victorian synthesis of philosophy, science, evolution, knowledge, and social thought.

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Frederick Douglass · English
A major abolitionist autobiography on slavery, self-education, resistance, freedom, and public voice.