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George Grossmith · English
A comic classic of ordinary suburban life, office anxieties, small embarrassments, and domestic pride.
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George Grossmith · English
A comic classic of ordinary suburban life, office anxieties, small embarrassments, and domestic pride.

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G. K. Chesterton · English
A spirited satirical adventure about liberty, law, hospitality, and resistance to sterile modern regulation.

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A. Merritt · English
An early fantasy-adventure classic of hidden worlds, strange science, and luminous supernatural mystery.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A Professor Challenger adventure in which Earth appears to pass through a deadly cosmic ether.

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E. Nesbit · English
A lively children’s adventure about the Bastable children and their imaginative attempts to restore family fortune.

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David Ricardo · English
A foundational work of classical economics on value, rent, wages, profit, taxation, and trade.

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John Dewey · English
Dewey’s practical classic on reflective thought, education, judgment, inquiry, habit, and disciplined learning.

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J. A. Hobson · English
Hobson’s influential analysis of empire, finance, markets, militarism, and modern political economy.

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Thorstein Veblen · English
Veblen’s major study of work, institutions, technology, habits, ownership, and economic evolution.

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William James · English
A key pragmatist text on truth, experience, belief, verification, reality, and philosophical method.

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Frank Norris · English
A Chicago novel of wheat speculation, finance, marriage, ambition, and market obsession.

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Hugh Lofting · English
A children’s classic about a doctor who talks with animals, voyages abroad, and chooses kindness.

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John Reed · English
John Reed’s vivid eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution, crowded with speeches, street scenes, and political drama.

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Church of England · English
The classic Anglican prayer book of worship, psalms, liturgy, sacraments, and English devotional prose.

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H. G. Wells · English
A concise Wells lecture on prediction, science, social change, and humanity’s responsibility toward the future.

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Hendrik Willem van Loon · English
A popular world-history classic that turns civilizations, discoveries, wars, and ideas into a broad human story.

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Ernest Shackleton · English
Shackleton’s firsthand Antarctic account of endurance, leadership, exploration, disaster, and survival.

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George Meredith · English
A Victorian novel of education, desire, family theory, youth, marriage, and emotional consequence.

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George Gissing · English
A reflective English classic of reading, solitude, aging, nature, memory, and literary retirement.

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George Gissing · English
A gritty English social novel about class, poverty, gender, aspiration, and moral isolation.

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Thomas Browne · English
A compact English classic on mortality, burial customs, memory, antiquity, and metaphysical prose.

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John Galsworthy · English
A major English family saga about property, marriage, class, inheritance, and Victorian wealth.

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H. G. Wells · English
A speculative political classic imagining a world state, social reform, travel, and modern utopian government.

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Philip Wicksteed · English
An influential economics classic on choice, value, marginal utility, exchange, and everyday economic reasoning.