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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
By Daniel Defoe
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Moll Flanders, the heroine of the 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe that bears her name, enters the world as the daughter of a convict saved from execution only by her pregnancy. Moll's felonious birth-mothe ...
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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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History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
By Henry Fielding
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Don't be fooled by the title: this "history" is a bawdy romp through eighteenth century England led by the indefatigable Tom Jones, a boy whose deeds (and misdeeds) make for a rollicking good read.
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House of Mirth
By Edith Wharton
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Glitz and glamour collide with poverty and scandal in The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton’s celebrated novel about the vicious nature of Old New York society. Our smart, lovely heroine Lily Bart moves ...
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The Alchemist
By Ben Jonson
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It's been called the greatest farce in the English language, with one of the three most perfect plots in all of literature. What are you waiting for? Get thee to the first installment!
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Little Dorrit
By Charles Dickens
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Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Everything ...
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The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Volume 1
By Frances Burney
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Fanny Burney, one of the most important British novelists of the eighteenth century, led an extraordinary life. Not one to take “no” for an answer, Burney had willpower and spirit uncommon among w ...
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Frankenstein
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Dr. Frankenstein's dark alchemy brings a monster to life one fateful day. His form is a hulking mass of dead body parts, his appearance wild and ghoulish. This is a nightmarish creature, frightening a ...
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The Souls of Black Folk
By W.E.B. Du Bois
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In 1903, sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois set out to describe the experience and position of African Americans living in the United States. Du Bois was a tireless writer and thinker, seeking an end to the r ...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
By Alexandre Dumas
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The dramatic conclusion to the saga of d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers—and the revelation of the mysterious man in the iron mask
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Poems of Christina Rossetti
By Christina Rossetti
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POEMS. BY CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI. I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK. June 8, 1857. Not a hope in the world remained: Gained and gained and gained. Young, strong, and so full of life: The a ...
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A Damsel in Distress
By P. G. Wodehouse
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A Damsel in Distress is a madcap adventure whose comic twists and turns could only have come from the zany imagination of P.G. Wodehouse. Respectable George Bevan is minding his own business, zooming ...
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My Bondage and My Freedom
By Frederick Douglass
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If the volume now presented to the public were a mere work of ART, the history of its misfortune might be written in two very simple words--TOO LATE. The nature and character of slavery have been sub ...
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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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Robinson Crusoe
By Daniel Defoe
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A young man weighs two very different options for his future at the start of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Robinson can either settle down to a comfortable career in law or set sail for faraway plac ...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll
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A lazy afternoon by the water melts away into a wild adventure when young Alice chases a mysterious White Rabbit straight into Wonderland. Created as a gift to one of his favorite young fans, Alice Li ...
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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 Aeneid
By Virgil
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Epic battles, meddlesome gods, a great city’s downfall, a heartbroken queen—these are the subjects of The Aeneid, an epic poem by the ancient Roman writer Virgil. The story begins with the destruc ...
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