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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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 ...

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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The Arabian Nights

By Anonymous

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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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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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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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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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A Tale of Two Cities

By Charles Dickens

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Civil unrest and dramatic upheavals in the French Revolutionary era set the stage for Charles Dickens's Tale of Two Cities. Two men, one French, one English, are at the heart of the novel. Their chara ...

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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 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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Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer

By Poets & Writers

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This collection of short stories launches a series of short stories available via DailyLit. Additional collections in this series will automatically be sent to you once they become available. ... Ev ...

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Great Expectations

By Charles Dickens

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A young orphan named Pip is the main character in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations. Beginning from humble origins in the home of his guardians, Pip's eye is drawn to a more lavish and aristo ...

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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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Sense and Sensibility

By Jane Austen

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The death of Henry Dashwood forces his daughters and their mother to give up their comfortable home and fashionable lifestyle. Stuck in a modest rural cottage, the eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and ...

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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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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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The Idiot

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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In Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Prince Myshkin is a mentally unstable young man, and one of the last of his royal bloodline. Suffering from epilepsy and unexplained spells of insanity, he is an outsider, l ...

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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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