Gulliver's Travels

By Jonathan Swift

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The story of Lemuel Gulliver and his many extraordinary voyages at sea has delighted readers for over 200 years. After a devastating shipwreck on his first foray onto the ocean, Gulliver finds himself ...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain's classic depiction of a happy-go-lucky boy on a voyage of growth and discovery. Set in pre-Civil war Missouri, this novel is the story of Tom and his best f ...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

By Oscar Wilde

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Dorian Gray is the most beautiful young man Lord Henry Wotton has ever seen. What is his secret? Introduced to him through a friend who has just painted Dorian's portrait, Lord Henry finds much to dis ...

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

By Edwin Abbott

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I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Line ...

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A Young Girl's Diary

By Anonymous

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First published in 1919, A Young Girl’s Diary was a landmark in the field of child psychology. It is a young girl’s written testament to her inner thoughts, fears, and hopes as she moves from chil ...

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Poetics

By Aristotle

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An ancient text still relevant to this day, Aristotle’s Poetics describes the nature of all verse. As Aristotle saw it, poetry could be classified as one of three types: Tragedy, Comedy, or Epic. Of ...

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Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

By Walter Bagehot

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A vivid depiction of the world of stocks, investments, and trades. As true today as in 1873, this is a classic and a must-read for all would-be Wall Street types.

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The World War And What Was Behind It

By Louis P. Benezet

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[Illustration: The Peace Palace at the Hague] The call from Europe.--Friend against friend.--Why?--Death and devastation.--No private quarrel.--Ordered by government.--What makes government?--The infl ...

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

By Arnold Bennett

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With the advent of the modern corporate workplace in the twentieth century, more and more Americans were toiling away behind desks, wearily clocking the standard forty-hour week. By 1910, writer Arno ...

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The Devil's Dictionary

By Ambrose Bierce

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In the 1860s, Ambrose Bierce, a San Francisco humorist with a sharp wit for satire, purchased a copy of Webster’s Dictionary. Not content to let his agile mind sit idle even while consulting this re ...

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Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories

By Jack London

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She had delayed, because of the dew-wet grass, in order to put on her overshoes, and when she emerged from the house found her waiting husband absorbed in the wonder of a bursting almond-bud. She sent ...

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Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy

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In Anna Karenina, faith is challenged, bonds are broken, love dies and is reborn. Originally published in serial form between 1873 and 1877, the novel is set in the glamorous world of the aristocracy ...

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Little Women

By Louisa May Alcott

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The four March sisters come of age against the backdrop of a nation forever changed by the Civil War. While their father serves in the conflict, the sisters—dutiful Meg, fiery Jo, gentle Beth, a ...

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Dracula

By Bram Stoker

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Bram Stoker's Dracula is full of the kind of chills and thrills that mark the very best horror stories and films. Jonathan Harker, a freshly-minted English lawyer, travels to Transylvania to take on a ...

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War of the Worlds

By H.G. Wells

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Humanity's worst fears come true in this grand science-fiction adventure from H.G. Wells. Through telescopes fixed on faraway planets, scientists begin noticing strange events occurring on the surface ...

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Pride and Prejudice

By Jane Austen

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The carefully controlled and chess-like movements of polite society often conceal passionate hearts, keen minds, and rebellious wills. High-spirited Elizabeth Bennet attempts to stay true to her ideal ...

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