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    Don Quixote

    By Miguel de Cervantes

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    Don Quixote is a reader who has lost sight of the horizon between fiction and reality. Full to the brim of tales of adventure and romance, Quixote comes to believe that he himself is a knight straight ...

    Rating: 2.67

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    Vanity Fair

    By William Makepeace Thackeray

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    Becky Sharp is a keen navigator of the ranks of Victorian society. With no family fortune or pedigree to invite her into the finest circles, Becky relies on determination and her sly intelligence to p ...

    Rating: 5.00

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    Northanger Abbey

    By Jane Austen

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    A vacation to the exotic location of Bath brings excitement and novelty to teenager Catherine Morland's life. Eager for a grand adventure to begin once she arrives, Catherine is delighted to receive t ...

    Rating: 3.80

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    Dead Souls

    By Nikolai Gogol

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    In provincial nineteenth century Russia, poor working people are considered the property of the landowners on whose farms they work. This human property—the serfs—are known as "souls& ...

    Rating: 4.00

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    The Devil's Dictionary

    By Ambrose Bierce

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    In the 1860s, Ambrose Bierce, a San Francisco humorist with a sharp wit for satire, purchased a copy of Webster’s Dictionary. Not content to let his agile mind sit idle even while consulting this re ...

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    Gulliver's Travels

    By Jonathan Swift

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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 ...

    Rating: 3.00

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    An Ideal Husband

    By Oscar Wilde

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    Secrets and mistakes haunt a politician care of the most charming blackmailer one could ever meet. But the stakes are high when political power hangs in the balance, and the delicate game these charac ...

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    A Tale of a Tub

    By Jonathan Swift

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    A work of bizarre parody and countless literary magic tricks, Jonathan Swift’s 1704 work A Tale of a Tub is a witty religious treatise disguised as the simple fable of three brothers. Peter, Martin, ...

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    A Modest Proposal

    By Jonathan Swift

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    In his 1729 essay A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift offers a scintillating parody of eternally popular cut-and-dry economic theory. To start, he describes, in heart-rending detail, the painful struggl ...

    Rating: 3.50

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    Utopia

    By Thomas More

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    Readers may find themselves wishing they could live on the island described in Sir Thomas More’s 1516 work Utopia. More describes this wondrous island as a philosophical and political meditation on ...

    Rating: 2.00

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