The Pickwick Papers

By Charles Dickens

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The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens's first novel, published in serial form in 1837. This is the story of the "Pickwick Club," a private society of eccentric gentlemen who feel themselve ...

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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 ...

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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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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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How to Speak and Write Correctly

By Joseph Devlin

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The English language is quirky, to say the least. The twists and turns of sentences, the difficulty of finding just the right words—we all could use a helpful hint from time to time. This 1910 g ...

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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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The Enchanted Castle

By E. Nesbit

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In childhood, the borders between reality and fantasy often blur just enough for a grand adventure to take place. E. Nesbit's The Enchanted Castle tells the story of an afternoon game of "pretend ...

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Villette

By Charlotte Brontë

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Lucy Snowe is seeking some much-needed stability and security when she takes a job as a teacher in the faraway city of Villette. What she does not realize is that she's in for a wild ride of mystery, ...

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The Last of the Mohicans

By James Fenimore Cooper

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Captures, disguises, chases, and daring escapes, all set against a backdrop of war: this is the stirring adventure story you've been looking for

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Democracy in America, Book One

By Alexis De Tocqueville

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A valuable consideration of the American political system through the eyes of an outsider, Democracy in America is based on the French Alexis de Toqueville's 1831 visit to the young United States. Toq ...

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The Age of Innocence

By Edith Wharton

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The rustle of silk, the glitter of diamonds—here is New York society in all of its Gilded Age splendor. May Welland is pure and delicate, a vision of young American womanhood. Her fiancé Newlan ...

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By Washington Irving

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In Washington Irving’s classic 1820 tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, two men vie for the hand of the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel. Abraham Van Brunt, a dim-witted oaf, is sure that Katrina will cho ...

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The Prince

By Niccolò Machiavelli

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Published in 1532, The Prince is a shockingly frank guide to the art of cultivating power. How does one establish power and maintain control over other people—or an entire nation? How does a pri ...

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Swann's Way

By Marcel Proust

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A cup of tea and some fragrant cookies transport a man into the past. So begins one of the most famous literary epics ever written. His senses full of scents and flavors of his childhood, our narrator ...

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A Young Girl's Diary

By Anonymous

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First published in 1919, A Young Girl’s Diary was a landmark in the field of child psychology. It is a young girl’s written testament to her inner thoughts, fears, and hopes as she moves from chil ...

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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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The Secret Garden

By Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Little Mary Lennox is orphaned and alone in India, where her parents had settled during British colonial rule of the country. Sent far away to live with her uncle in England, Mary is angry with the wo ...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain's classic depiction of a happy-go-lucky boy on a voyage of growth and discovery. Set in pre-Civil war Missouri, this novel is the story of Tom and his best f ...

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