David Copperfield

By Charles Dickens

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"I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield." Dickens's tender words about his 1850 novel invite us to enter into the world of David Copperfield, a youn ...

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The Federalist Papers

By Alexander Hamilton

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One of the most important set of documents at the heart of our nation's birth, The Federalist Papers were first published in early American newspapers between 1787 and 1788. Here the thoughts and hope ...

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Famous Stories Every Child Should Know

By Various

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Here is a collection of tales for all ages, for those young in years or young at heart. Famous Stories Every Child Should Know, first assembled by Hamilton Wright Mabie in 1907, brings together some o ...

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The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories

By P. G. Wodehouse

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P.G. Wodehouse’s The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories is an early collection of works written just as the author’s celebrated comic genius was reaching its razor-sharp peak. Whether encoun ...

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Emma

By Jane Austen

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Emma Woodhouse is the self-appointed matchmaker within her small circle of friends and acquaintances. Scheming and presumptuous, however, Emma's vision for who belongs with whom often runs at cross-pu ...

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Madame Bovary

By Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert's 1856 novel, for all of its modern sense of honesty and power, could have been written yesterday. Here we have one of literature's tragic heroines—the beautiful Emma Bovary&mda ...

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

By Harriet Ann Jacobs

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One woman's amazing story of abuse, degradation, and courage as she faces the devastating hardships of America's "peculiar institution."

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A Room with a View

By E.M. Forster

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A voyage to Italy becomes a journey of self-discovery and awakening for Lucy Honeychurch in E.M. Forster's A Room with a View. Engaged to fussy, virtuous Cecil, Lucy encounters new possibilities for p ...

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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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It Can Be Done, Poems of Inspiration

By Joseph Morris

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Have you ever wished you could start the day with some words of wisdom, courage, or optimism to guide you? The pieces featured in this 1921 collection offer just this sort of advice. Cheer up and real ...

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

By Thomas Hardy

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An impoverished family, a tragic rape, an overpowering love, a shocking murder—these are just a few of the haunting events in Thomas Hardy’s absorbing novel. Tess Durbeyfield is a plain country gi ...

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Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer

By Poets & Writers

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This collection offers eight timeless short stories—by Chekhov, Fitzgerald, Poe, and others—for readers who want to rediscover the pleasures of the past. This collection was created exclusively f ...

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Robin Hood

By J. Walker Mcspadden

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The Moonstone

By Wilkie Collins

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On her eighteenth birthday, beautiful Rachel Verinder receives a present like no other—an enormous, glittering, diamond. Little does she know that this legendary stone will bring with it a world ...

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Middlemarch

By George Eliot

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One of the most famous novels of the Victorian age and a fabulously juicy read to this day, Middlemarch is George Eliot's masterpiece. At the heart of the story are sisters Dorothea and Cecilia Brook ...

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Walden

By Henry David Thoreau

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First published in 1854, Walden is Henry David Thoreau's famous account of his radical experiment in living. For one year, Thoreau threw off the burdens of society to live alone in the woods. In a sim ...

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The Iliad

By Homer

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War. Love. Betrayal. Revenge. These are the forces that define the Iliad, an ancient work by the Greek poet Homer. Here, Homer sings of the tense and violent days of the Trojan War, a battle of gods a ...

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Lincoln's Yarns and Stories

By Alexander Kelly

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This 1901 collection of personal anecdotes and fables brings warmth and humanity to our image of Abraham Lincoln. Insightful and often humorous, these stories capture the essence of a man who has gone ...

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