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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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 ...

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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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 ...

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 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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Bleak House

By Charles Dickens

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A mysterious lawsuit, a dark secret, a framed murder, and an illegitimate child: these are the themes of Charles Dickens’ suspenseful, intricate book. The narrator and heroine, Esther Summerson, is ...

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Persuasion

By Jane Austen

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When she least expects it, love is put to the test of time for lonely Anne Elliot. After the unhappy ending of a love affair, Anne has spent precious years in the shadows. Her lonely life is a cruel c ...

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Mansfield Park

By Jane Austen

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Mansfield Park is a witty social comedy, weighing predictable propriety against the consequences of carelessness. Young Fanny Price, born to a large and struggling family, is taken to live at Mansfiel ...

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

By Agatha Christie

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Here is the great Agatha Christie's first novel and the debut of her infallible detective Hercule Poirot. In the midst of World War One, a group of guests at an old mansion in the countryside find the ...

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Poems Every Child Should Know

By Various

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Is this another collection of stupid poems that children cannot use? Will they look hopelessly through this volume for poems that suit them? Will they say despairingly, "This is too long," and "That ...

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Secret Adversary

By Agatha Christie

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Down on their luck and without any prospect of employment, Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley, the hero and heroine of Agatha Christie’s 1922 mystery novel The Secret Adversary come up with a plan ...

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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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Varieties of Religious Experience

By William James

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A key work in the burgeoning field of psychology, William James's Varieties of Religious Experience probes value systems and faith across a number of contexts. How do we attach meaning or belief in an ...

The Art of War

By Sun Tzu

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The Art of War is a Chinese text dating from the sixth century B.C. on the nature of warfare. Written by Sun Tzu, a brilliant and innovative military expert, The Art of War has been studied for centur ...

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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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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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Journey to the Centre of the Earth

By Jules Verne

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Science-fiction wizard Jules Verne takes us not to outer space or to the ocean's depths, but straight into the heart of the planet in this astonishing 1864 work. Professor Lidenbrock comes across an a ...

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