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Thomas Paine · English
A revolutionary series of political essays on liberty, independence, public courage, and civic resolve.
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Politics
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Thomas Paine · English
A revolutionary series of political essays on liberty, independence, public courage, and civic resolve.

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Politics
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · English
A landmark legal classic on precedent, liability, rights, duties, and the historical life of law.

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Art
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Philip Sidney · English
A foundational English defense of poetry, imagination, learning, and literary art.

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Science
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Alfred Russel Wallace · English
A landmark natural-history journey through islands, species, geography, evolution, and exploration.

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Science
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Gilbert White · English
A classic of close observation, natural history, birds, seasons, village life, and ecological attention.

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Literature
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Willa Cather · English
A modern American novel of memory, scholarship, family tension, loss, and inward exile.

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Philosophy
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Ralph Waldo Emerson · English
American transcendentalist essays on self-culture, independence, moral courage, nature, society, and individual thought.

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Literature
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Anthony Trollope · English
A Barsetshire novel of clergy, ambition, debt, politics, marriage, social pressure, and Trollope’s realist comedy.

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Literature
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Henry Fielding · English
Fielding’s comic road novel, rich in satire, mistaken dignity, social observation, travel, virtue, and eighteenth-century humor.

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Literature
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John Buchan · English
A compact adventure novel of South African politics, treasure, danger, imperial imagination, and Buchan’s brisk thriller style.

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Psychology
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Havelock Ellis · English
Readable essays on psychology, art, play, rhythm, culture, individuality, and modern life by a major early twentieth-century thinker.

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Literature
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Rudyard Kipling · English
Kipling’s popular soldier poems of empire, barracks, battle, marching songs, slang, discipline, and comradeship.

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Literature
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Anonymous · English
A complete English collection of Everyman and early miracle plays, preserving the classic morality play in a fuller medieval-drama context.

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Literature
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Thomas Malory · English
The great English Arthurian cycle of King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, the Round Table, and the Grail.

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Philosophy
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Francis Bacon · English
Bacon’s utopian vision of science, research, experiment, knowledge, and an organized society of learning.

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Literature
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J. M. Barrie · English
The classic Neverland novel of Peter Pan, Wendy, the Lost Boys, Captain Hook, childhood, and imagination.

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Education
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John Ruskin · English
Ruskin’s influential lectures on reading, books, education, character, gender ideals, and moral culture.

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History
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Samuel Pepys · English
A vivid Restoration diary of London life, court politics, plague, fire, theater, work, marriage, and daily observation.

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Economics
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John Stuart Mill · English
Mill’s major economic treatise on production, distribution, labor, capital, value, trade, and social reform.

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Education
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Virginia Woolf · English
Virginia Woolf’s influential essay on women, literature, money, space, and creative freedom.

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Politics
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Emma Goldman · English
A major collection of political essays on freedom, labor, education, prisons, and women’s rights.

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Philosophy
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Inazo Nitobe · English
Nitobe’s influential English account of samurai ethics, honor, courage, loyalty, and moral education.

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Literature
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Arthur Machen · English
A disturbing fin-de-siècle horror tale of forbidden experiment, pagan dread, and hidden corruption.

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Literature
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David Lindsay · English
A visionary metaphysical journey through alien landscapes, spiritual conflict, and radical imaginative philosophy.