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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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A family curse. A mysterious murder. A ghostly black dog whose footsteps appear at the scene of the crime. First published in serial form beginning in 1901, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the B ...
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This final novel by renowned author Charles Dickens explores the meaning of value, both financial and moral. The novel begins with a death: a rich, cranky miser has passed away, leaving his estate to ...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter is a tale of Puritanical America, a time and place when life was marked by harsh facts and firm beliefs, when people believed in the importance of c ...
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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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Hank Morgan is an ordinary resident of Hartford, Connecticut who one day wakes up in the middle of medieval England. Although startled at this wild and shocking turn of events, Hank is an eminently pr ...
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Gargantua and Pantagruel is a series of five short novels by sixteenth century French writer Francois Rabelais. Here are the comic misadventures of a pair of giants: Pantagruel and his father, Gargant ...
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First published in serial form, Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel North and South is an important work about the serious changes in life and society that the Industrial Revolution brought about in Englan ...
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A novel about the future that's closer than we think. ... Roo'd is geek-addled cyberpunk fiction at its finest, about a teenage boy with two prosthetic legs and a band of misfit body-modders, shamanis ...
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In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1864 novel Notes From the Underground, a hermitic man puts forth his personal recollections, thoughts, and ideas. In the first part of this astonishing work, the unnamed narra ...
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This swashbuckling story of adventure follows young man Jim Hawkins as he sets out on a quest for buried treasure. Robert Louis Stevenson’s ageless classic begins when Billy Bones, an old sea captai ...
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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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Medieval England was a time and place of great conflict. As the Crusades came to a close, Normans and Saxons clashed in constant battles over control of the land. A citizen's allegiance to one side or ...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fascinating novel, The Lost World, was first published in 1912. Trying to win the heart of a young woman, newspaperman Ed Malone seeks out a glamorous and risky assignment fro ...
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Thursday, Welbeck Street. other praise. I almost think you will like my "Criminal Queens." you will go with me in my view as to the Queen of Scots. Guilty! guilty always! Adultery, murder, tr ...
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A trip to Mars leads to the discovery of a utopia/dystopia. Introduced the word "astronaut" to the English language.
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John Bunyan's 1678 fable The Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most fundamental works of English literature. This is the tale of a spiritual journey that demands the utmost commitment from all who emba ...
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Faithfully to relate how Eliphalet Hopper came try St. Louis is to betray no secret. Mr. Hopper is wont to tell the story now, when his daughter-in-law is not by; and sometimes he tells it in her pres ...
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