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Joseph Conrad · English
A satirical, unsettling novel about idealism confronting modern politics, money, and the machinery of power.
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Joseph Conrad · English
A satirical, unsettling novel about idealism confronting modern politics, money, and the machinery of power.

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Jack London · English
A visionary prison novel in which imagination travels beyond bodily confinement through dreams, memory, and earlier lives.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery · English
A richly nostalgic coming-of-age novel built around stories, friendship, family, and the imaginative life of children.

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Oscar Wilde · English
A polished comedy about political reputation, old secrets, and moral compromise.

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Jack London · English
A modern dreamer remembers a brutal prehistoric world of early humans and survival.

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Jack London · English
A gold-rush fortune transforms a frontier survivor and tests wealth, identity, love, and change.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau · English
Rousseau’s influential vision of childhood, freedom, experience, moral development, and education.

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Oscar Wilde · English
A society comedy of gossip, marriage, scandal, and hidden identity.

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Anthony Hope · English
A royal adventure of disguises, divided loyalties, duels, romance, and political danger.

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Arnold Bennett · English
A humorous rise-to-success story about luck, publicity, business, and self-invention.

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G. K. Chesterton · English
Playful mysteries built around strange professions, ingenious schemes, and London eccentricity.

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Leo Tolstoy · English
A powerful novella about illness, fear, social success, mortality, and truth at the edge of death.

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G. K. Chesterton · English
Political mysteries of espionage, hidden power, diplomacy, and moral uncertainty.

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William Hope Hodgson · English
A far-future journey through darkness, monstrous threats, isolation, and enduring love.

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E. Nesbit · English
Children travel through time with an ancient amulet, meeting lost civilizations and historical figures.

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Anthony Trollope · English
Three young men enter office life, where friendship, romance, ambition, and money collide.

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Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Osbourne · English
A satirical adventure of anarchists, disguises, mistaken identities, and conspiracies in Victorian London.

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Henry James · English
A drawing-room drama of youth, marriage, and the social rules that adults prefer not to name.

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John Ruskin · English
Essays on work, traffic, war, and the moral purpose of art in modern industrial society.

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George Gissing · English
Quietly devastating stories of poverty, failed ambition, loneliness, and the fragile dignity of ordinary lives.

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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
Island storms, buried treasure, and moral dread shape Stevenson’s atmospheric tales of the sea.

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Joseph Conrad · English
A Marseille artist is drawn into a dangerous network of revolutionaries and smugglers.

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H. Rider Haggard · English
A sweeping Crusades adventure of brotherhood, captivity, faith, and chivalry.

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Thomas Carlyle · English
A forceful narrative of the Revolution from the fall of the Bastille to the Terror.