The Best American Humorous Short Stories

By Various

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Looking for a cure for everyday blahs? Try The Best American Humorous Short Stories, a 1920 treasury of favorite American writers at their funniest. Characters who range from the conniving to the ecc ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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On the Origin of Species: Part 1

By Charles Darwin

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On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin's groundbreaking 1859 work that first introduced the theory of natural selection and evolution. The book was the result of years of research, travel, and col ...

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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Uncle Tom's Cabin

By Harriet Beecher Stowe

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More than a landmark of American literature, Uncle Tom's Cabin makes a powerful anti-slavery statement about the inhumanity of the "peculiar institution." Throughout Stowe's sentimental tale ...

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My Life and Work

By Henry Ford

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Born into a modest Detroit family, Henry Ford became a pioneer of American ingenuity and industry. In 1922, at the peak of his success in putting countless automobiles on the road, Ford put his own st ...

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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 ...

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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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Essays

By Michel de Montaigne

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What is human nature? What can a single person know of himself, the world around him, or even of God? Since their publication in 1580, Montaigne's Essays have been a fixture in the field of philosophy ...

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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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Sonnets

By William Shakespeare

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Here is the very heart of English poetry, still beating strong and clear after nearly four centuries. Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in their entirety in 1609. They feature some of the mos ...

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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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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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