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Honoré de Balzac · French
Sarrasine est un classique du domaine public autour de art, illusion, identité et désir.
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French
Literature
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Honoré de Balzac · French
Sarrasine est un classique du domaine public autour de art, illusion, identité et désir.

English
Literature
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Hannah Webster Foster · English
The Coquette is a public-domain classic of letters, reputation, desire and early American society.

English
Literature
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Jonathan Swift · English
A brilliant satire on books, religion, authorship, digression, and the noisy print culture of Swift’s age.

English
Literature
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan · English
A sparkling comedy of reputation, gossip, marriage, hypocrisy, and social performance in fashionable London.

English
Literature
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Booth Tarkington · English
A Pulitzer Prize-winning American novel of class anxiety, family ambition, self-invention, and social embarrassment.

English
Literature
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George MacDonald · English
A lyrical children’s fantasy about Diamond, the North Wind, poverty, wonder, death, and consolation.

Portuguese
Education
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Francisco Manuel de Melo · Portuguese
Um clássico português de conselho moral sobre casamento, prudência, vida doméstica e costumes sociais.

French
Literature
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Paul Valéry · French
Un recueil essentiel de Valéry, entre rigueur musicale, pensée poétique, mer, corps et conscience.

English
Politics
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Benjamin Disraeli · English
A political novel about youth, aristocracy, reform, party identity, and the future of Victorian Britain.

German
Literature
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Heinrich von Kleist · German
Ein romantisches Ritterschauspiel über Traum, Treue, Stand, Geheimnis und leidenschaftliche Hingabe.

French
Literature
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Alain-René Lesage · French
Un grand roman picaresque français fait d’aventures, de satire sociale, de fortune changeante et d’ironie.

German
Art
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Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder · German
Ein Schlüsseltext der deutschen Romantik über Kunst, Musik, Frömmigkeit, Innerlichkeit und Künstlerverehrung.

Spanish
Literature
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Jorge de Montemayor · Spanish
La novela pastoril que abrió una tradición de amores, canciones, naturaleza idealizada y melancolía.

French
Literature
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Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly · French
Un roman sombre de Normandie, traversé par religion, guerre civile, passion, rumeur et fatalité.

Spanish
Religion
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Gonzalo de Berceo · Spanish
Un clásico medieval castellano de milagros marianos, devoción, narración ejemplar y poesía religiosa.

English
Literature
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Oscar Wilde · English
A public-domain Oscar Wilde poetry collection including The Ballad of Reading Gaol and earlier poems on beauty, desire, liberty, art, faith, and suffering.

French
Literature
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Alfred de Vigny · French
Un recueil majeur du romantisme français, entre méditation historique, solitude morale et grandeur poétique.

German
Religion
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Immanuel Kant · German
Kants religionsphilosophisches Hauptwerk über Vernunft, Moral, Böses, Kirche und Glaubenspraxis.

English
Literature
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton · English
A Victorian family novel of books, inheritance, domestic affection, learning, ambition, and comic observation.

English
Literature
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Maria Susanna Cummins · English
A bestselling American sentimental novel of orphanhood, kindness, class mobility, education, and moral growth.

English
Literature
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Hall Caine · English
A Victorian bestseller of friendship, love, betrayal, conscience, and social judgment on the Isle of Man.

English
Literature
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Jane Porter · English
A bestselling historical romance of William Wallace, patriotism, heroism, loyalty, and Scottish resistance.

English
Literature
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William Hazlitt · English
A vivid portrait gallery of Romantic-era writers, thinkers, politicians, critics, and public personalities.

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Literature
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Susan Warner · English
A landmark American domestic novel of childhood, faith, separation, discipline, and emotional endurance.