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Conrad's dark political novel of espionage, anarchism, betrayal, and private tragedy in London.
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Joseph Conrad · English
Conrad's dark political novel of espionage, anarchism, betrayal, and private tragedy in London.
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Edgar Allan Poe · English
A tense psychological tale of obsession, murder, guilt, and an impossible heartbeat.
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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A Sherlock Holmes mystery of coded warnings, hidden violence, and a secret society's long shadow.
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Jerome K. Jerome · English
A comic river journey full of friendship, mishaps, digressions, and relaxed Victorian wit.
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Laurence Sterne · English
A playful, digressive comic novel that turns storytelling itself into its central adventure.
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James Joyce · English
James Joyce's modernist landmark following one day in Dublin through memory, language, and consciousness.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett · English
A children’s classic of imagination, hardship, kindness, dignity, and inner courage.
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Mary Wollstonecraft · English
A landmark argument for women’s education, reason, equality, and civic dignity.
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David Hume · English
A lucid philosophical inquiry into knowledge, causation, probability, miracles, and human understanding.
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Henry James · English
A compact transatlantic novella of innocence, manners, judgment, and social ambiguity.
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Edith Wharton · English
A stark New England tragedy of desire, silence, poverty, and irreversible choice.
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Thomas Hobbes · English
A foundational work of political philosophy on authority, fear, covenant, and sovereignty.
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Theodore Dreiser · English
A naturalist novel of ambition, desire, urban life, theatre, and social drift.
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Edith Wharton · English
A brilliant satire of ambition, marriage, money, status, and American social mobility.
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Edith Wharton · English
A sharp society novel of beauty, money, reputation, and social ruin.
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E. Nesbit · English
A warm children’s classic of family loss, railway life, bravery, and generosity.
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Jack London · English
A sea adventure of coercion, survival, intellect, violence, and moral awakening.
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John Stuart Mill · English
A classic defense of utility, happiness, moral judgment, liberty, and social ethics.
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John Donne · English
Metaphysical poems of love, wit, devotion, argument, and spiritual intensity.
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John Keats · English
Romantic poems of beauty, mortality, sensation, myth, and imaginative longing.
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Emily Dickinson · English
Compressed lyric poems of death, faith, nature, consciousness, and astonishment.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley · English
Romantic poems of liberty, imagination, nature, revolt, and visionary music.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning · English
A sonnet sequence of love, inward transformation, vulnerability, and devotion.
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Edith Wharton · English
A New York society novel of duty, desire, reputation, and emotional restraint.