The Art of War

By Sun Tzu

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The Art of War is a Chinese text dating from the sixth century B.C. on the nature of warfare. Written by Sun Tzu, a brilliant and innovative military expert, The Art of War has been studied for centur ...

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The Artist of the Beautiful

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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In The Artist of the Beautiful, an 1844 tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a shy and lonely artist becomes obsessed with bringing beauty to life. Owen Warland is a slight and delicate man, sensitive and cre ...

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As You Like It

By William Shakespeare

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Here, in one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, the courtly world collides with the world of nature. Frederick has usurped his brother Duke Senior’s throne, and Senior has been forced to flee ...

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Ashputtel

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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The Aspern Papers

By Henry James

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What price will a young writer pay for the secrets of a legendary poet? Our hero and narrator, who is never named, travels to Venice in search of the closely guarded papers of Jeffrey Aspern. In recen ...

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Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge

By Rainer Maria Rilke

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Ich sehe seit einer Weile ein, daß ich Menschen, die in der Entwicklung ihres Wesens zart und suchend sind, streng davor warnen muß, in den Aufzeichnungen Analogien für das zu finden, was sie durch ...

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Authors in the Kitchen

By Megan Halpern

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Interviews with 21 bestselling contemporary authors about food, memory, and their experiments in the kitchen.

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By Benjamin Franklin

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From his family origins and youth to his professional and intellectual life as a printer, publisher, diplomat, and brilliant inventor, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is an astounding work that chal ...

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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

By Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The interruption referred to in the first sentence of the first of these papers was just a quarter of a century in duration. Two articles entitled "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" will be found i ...

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The Awakening

By Kate Chopin

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A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!" He could speak a little Spanish, and also a ...

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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

By Kate Chopin

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Here we have a collection of Kate Chopin's writing that includes her masterpiece The Awakening. In that 1899 novel, a vacation brings about a wave of new experience and passion that one woman has neve ...

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Babbitt

By Sinclair Lewis

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Babbitt is an everyman who has achieved the "American Dream." He has a family and comfortable home, and is respected at his office job in real estate. We read of his daily life in a fictiona ...

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The Bacchae

By Euripides

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

By Oscar Wilde

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In 1895, playwright Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for homosexuality. His cruel fall from grace left Wilde in the cold and gloomy atmosphere of Reading Gaol, or Prison, for two long years. Although cut of ...

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Banzai!

By Parabellum

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BANZAI! Every American familiar with the modern international political horizon must have experienced a feeling of solid satisfaction at the news that a formidable American fleet was to be dispatched ...

Barchester Towers

By Anthony Trollope

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A wry tale of posturing and clerical politics—and one very overbearing wife named Mrs. Proudie—in nineteenth century England.

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Bartleby the Scrivener

By Herman Melville

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The Beast in the Jungle

By Henry James

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A romance is threatened by a strange and mysterious curse in Henry James’s 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle. One day, John Marcher runs into his old acquaintance, May Bartrum. Ten years have pas ...

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