The Woman in White

By Wilkie Collins

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Love, mystery, and danger combine in Wilkie Collins's haunting tale of The Woman in White. A young art teacher falls in love with one of his students, a girl who is promised to another man. Although ...

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On the Origin of Species

By Charles Darwin

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On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin's groundbreaking 1859 work that first introduced the theory of natural selection and evolution. The book was the result of years of research, travel, and col ...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Here are twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the first to feature his immortal detective, Sherlock Holmes. A man of reason and astute reflection, Sherlock Holmes brings order and answers to the myst ...

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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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Wuthering Heights

By Emily Brontë

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The wild and mysterious moors of Yorkshire are the setting for a passionate connection between childhood friends Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. Though they grow up and marry other peop ...

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1

By Edward Gibbon

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Over the course of one pivotal year in history, the colossal Roman Empire crumbled into ruin. Or so the story goes. But the fall of Rome in 480 A.D. may not have occurred in the single dramatic moment ...

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Women in Love

By D.H. Lawrence

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Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence's sequel to The Rainbow, continues the tumultuous stories of sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen. The sisters are definitively modern women, bolder and more intense in nat ...

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The Best American Humorous Short Stories

By Various

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Looking for a cure for everyday blahs? Try The Best American Humorous Short Stories, a 1920 treasury of favorite American writers at their funniest. Characters who range from the conniving to the ecc ...

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Essays

By Michel de Montaigne

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What is human nature? What can a single person know of himself, the world around him, or even of God? Since their publication in 1580, Montaigne's Essays have been a fixture in the field of philosophy ...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are back for another rip-roaring adventure on the mighty Mississippi River. Feeling the call of life outside of his comfortable but ordinary home, Huck boldly fak ...

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Crime and Punishment

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Fear. Desperation. Anguish. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is a shockingly intimate tale of a murder and a murderer. Raskolnikov is a man on the brink of madness as he plots and carries out a grisl ...

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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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The Three Musketeers

By Alexandre Dumas

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Growing up in genteel poverty in seventeenth-century France, young d'Artagnan dreams of becoming a hero. With hopes for glory and adventure in his heart, he sets out to join the elite company of the K ...

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My Life and Work

By Henry Ford

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Born into a modest Detroit family, Henry Ford became a pioneer of American ingenuity and industry. In 1922, at the peak of his success in putting countless automobiles on the road, Ford put his own st ...

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A Tale of Two Cities

By Charles Dickens

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An Oprah Book Club pick!

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The Republic

By Plato

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Plato's The Republic is one of the most important philosophical works ever written. It is the account, as told by Socrates, of a meeting and debate between some of the greatest minds of ancient Greece ...

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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 Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer

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In the middle of a springtime pilgrimage, several weary travelers on their way to Canterbury decide to stop for the night. The men and women gather at an inn and begin a story-telling contest to see w ...

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