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History

The Johnstown Horror!!!

A vivid contemporary account of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, when a failed dam sent a wall of water through a Pennsylvania valley and killed thousands.

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Classics

The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims ride toward Canterbury, swapping stories that argue, tease and confess.

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History

Fishing from the Earliest Times

A scholarly and affectionate history of angling in the ancient world, tracing how the peoples of antiquity fished the rivers and seas.

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Non-fiction

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid

The foundational text of geometry, presenting Euclid's first six books of the Elements with their definitions, propositions and proofs.

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Fiction

One Woman

A novel centred on a single woman and the course of her life, love, and struggles.

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Children

Russian Fairy Tales

by Various

A vivid collection of Russian folk tales full of shape-shifting magic, dangerous bargains, brave children, and the strange logic of the old wonder tale.

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Children

English Fairy Tales

A treasury of the tales England told its children, gathered from folk tradition.

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Children

Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

by Various

A collection of tales gathered from the storytelling traditions of the East, bringing together stories of adventure, wisdom, and wonder.

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Non-fiction

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

John Stuart Mill's foundational treatise on reasoning, evidence, and the methods of science.

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Adventure

The Martian

A strange and haunting tale in which an earthly life is shaped by an unseen guiding spirit from another world.

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Classics

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth

Three of Cicero's great philosophical works together, the Tusculan Disputations on how to live and die well, On the Nature of the Gods on religion, and On the Commonwealth on the j

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History

On War

by Carl von Clausewitz

On War by Carl von Clausewitz is the monumental modern classic on strategy, uncertainty, politics, friction, and the enduring logic of armed conflict.

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Adventure

The Czar's Spy

William Le Queux's fast-moving tale of intrigue and espionage, set among the secrets and dangers of imperial Russia's reach.

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Classics

Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

by Guy de Maupassant

The full range of Maupassant's short fiction, from Norman farmhouses to Parisian salons.

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Essays

Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients

by Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon's celebrated Essays paired with his Wisdom of the Ancients, gathering some of the shrewdest prose in English.

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Classics

Notre-Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo's sweeping medieval romance, gathered around the great cathedral of Paris and the souls whose fates are bound to it.

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Non-fiction

The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell's classic short introduction to philosophy, a lucid, invigorating guide to the deepest questions about knowledge, reality and the limits of what we can be sure we

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Biography & Memoir

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

Sir Walter Scott's private journal, printed from the manuscript at Abbotsford, is one of the great diaries in English, candid, courageous and moving as the celebrated novelist face

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Classics

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The private meditations of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, written for himself alone.

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Essays

Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures delivered at Columbia University

by Edward MacDowell

Edward MacDowell's lectures on music, delivered at Columbia University, in which the celebrated American composer reflects on the history and meaning of his art with a practitioner

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Classics

Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a sophisticated classic about desire, marriage, social performance, and the hidden costs of respectability in Gilded Age New York.

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Classics

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2

The gathered poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the founding voices of English Romanticism.

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History

A History of Roman Classical Literature

by Robert William Browne

A comprehensive survey of the great writers of ancient Rome, from Plautus and Cicero to Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, tracing the rise and flowering of Latin literature.

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