Many Thoughts of Many Minds (Quotations)

By Various

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Have you ever wished that you could talk with the great minds of the past? Or attend a party where all of your favorite authors would be in attendance? Many Thoughts of Many Minds is an invaluable col ...

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War and Peace

By Leo Tolstoy

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Perhaps one of the most revered works in all of literature, Tolstoy's War and Peace is an epic story of Russian life in the days of Napoleon. Here are the sagas of five families who must face the ups ...

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The Count of Monte Cristo

By Alexandre Dumas

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The Count of Monte Cristo is Alexandre Dumas's riveting tale of romantic rivalries, struggles for power, daring escapes, clever disguises, buried treasure, and solemn promises. What more could an adve ...

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The Arabian Nights

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Considered by many to be the greatest work in all of literature, The Arabian Nights is a masterpiece sure to entertain all who seek its riches. The story begins when a vengeful king, angered by a form ...

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Leaves of Grass

By Walt Whitman

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Leaves of Grass is a groundbreaking collection of poems by nineteenth century poet Walt Whitman. An early free spirit, Whitman was inspired to put what he felt was the voice of the American everyman o ...

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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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Poems by Emily Dickinson

By Emily Dickinson

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From the seclusion of her modest New England home, the Belle of Amherst wrote hundreds of poems that perplex and delight readers to this day. As unusual as their creator, Dickinson's poems remained la ...

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Don Quixote

By Miguel de Cervantes

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Don Quixote is a reader who has lost sight of the horizon between fiction and reality. Full to the brim of tales of adventure and romance, Quixote comes to believe that he himself is a knight straight ...

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Famous Modern Ghost Stories

By Various

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In the mood for some thrills and chills? Curl up with this 1921 collection of spooky tales by some of the English language’s best writers. Such masters of the supernatural as Edgar Allen Poe, Ambros ...

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Les Miserables

By Victor Hugo

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Les Miserables, Victor Hugo's 1862 masterpiece, tells a story of personal turmoil in the midst of the traumatic political and social upheaval of nineteenth century France. At its heart is Jean Valjean ...

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

By Harriet Beecher Stowe

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More than a landmark of American literature, Uncle Tom's Cabin makes a powerful anti-slavery statement about the inhumanity of the "peculiar institution." Throughout Stowe's sentimental tale ...

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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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Moby Dick

By Herman Melville

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"Call me Ishmael." So begins Melville's tale of adventure on the high seas. Long ago an enormous white whale ruined the boat and ravaged the body of Captain Ahab. When unsuspecting sailor Is ...

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Ulysses

By James Joyce

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Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through the course of an ordinary day in Dublin, Ireland, in 1904. While the novel is structured after Homer's Odyssey, this is not a mythic journey of classical proporti ...

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Jane Eyre

By Charlotte Brontë

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In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, an independent woman must decide if the heartaches that come with love and trust are too high a price to pay. Eyre, an intelligent but lonely young girl, is all alon ...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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In this, his last work, Russian master Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of one family torn apart by greed, jealousy, and tragedy. Fyodor Pavlovich is a poor father: he's never shown an interest in an ...

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Great Expectations

By Charles Dickens

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An Oprah Book Club pick!

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Grimm's Fairy Tales

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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"Once upon a time..." So begin many well-known and light-hearted fairy tales. In Grimm's Fairy Tales, however, the fables we read are full of a more potent combination of the dark and light, ...

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