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Children

The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II

Ovid's dazzling epic of transformation rendered into English blank verse across two volumes.

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Adventure

Aladdin & Co

by Herbert Quick

A brisk American novel of enterprise, ambition, and fortune-making in a fast-growing town, told with wit and a keen eye for the schemes of its go-getting characters.

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Adventure

Love-at-arms : $b being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty

Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling historical romance set in Renaissance Italy: a tale of honour, love, and intrigue among the courts and condottieri of Urbino, told with the master s

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Classics

Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres

Goethe's towering drama of a scholar who bargains with the devil, rendered into English in the meters of the original.

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History

The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy

A history of the Choctaw Freedmen, formerly enslaved by the Choctaw Nation, and the founding of Oak Hill Industrial Academy to educate their children.

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History

The Frontier in American History

Frederick Jackson Turner's landmark essays advancing the frontier thesis, arguing that the moving edge of settlement shaped American democracy and character.

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Biography & Memoir

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Diogenes Laertius's rich compendium of the lives, sayings and doctrines of the ancient Greek philosophers.

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Art & Design

Contemporary American Composers

A survey of American composers of its era, offering portraits of the musicians shaping the nation's serious music.

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Children

The Aeneid

Virgil's great Roman epic, following the Trojan hero Aeneas from the ruins of Troy toward the founding of a new destiny in Italy.

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Non-fiction

The Birth of Tragedy

Nietzsche's daring first book, which finds the origins of Greek tragedy in the clash between the Apollonian and the Dionysian.

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Fiction

The Heather-Moon

A romance carried along by open roads, wild landscapes and the pull of the heart, told in the graceful, atmospheric style of an earlier age of popular fiction.

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Children

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

by M. I. Ebbutt

A stirring retelling of the great heroic legends of Britain, from Beowulf to the deeds of Arthur and beyond.

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Classics

Love's Labour's Lost

Shakespeare's sparkling early comedy of a king and his lords who forswear love for study, only to be undone by the arrival of a princess and her ladies.

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Adventure

The Spy

James Fenimore Cooper's Revolutionary War novel of a mysterious pedlar suspected as a British spy, torn loyalties and midnight risks in the contested no-man's-land of the Hudson.

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Crime

Fantômas

The first novel of the notorious French master-criminal Fantômas, a lurid and headlong thriller in which an elusive genius of crime terrorises Paris while a dogged detective pursue

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Poetry

Life: Poem XXI

A short poem meditating on life itself, in the reflective lyric tradition.

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History

Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

Alexander van Millingen's classic survey walks the great land walls of Constantinople stone by stone, tracing the defences that guarded the Byzantine capital for a thousand years a

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Horror

At the mountains of madness

by H. P. Lovecraft

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Mystery

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

Sax Rohmer's pulp thriller unleashes the criminal mastermind Dr.

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Poetry

Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

by Matthew Arnold

The collected poetry of one of the Victorian age's finest voices, ranging from elegy and lyric to meditations on faith, culture, and loss.

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Fiction

By Advice of Counsel

by Arthur Train

Arthur Train's engaging stories from the world of law, drawing on his own experience as a lawyer.

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Crime

The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The final collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories gathers twelve late cases for the world's most famous detective, closing the canon with fresh puzzles and a few

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Classics

Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell

by Dante Alighieri

Dante's Inferno in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's celebrated English translation, following the poet's descent through the nine circles of Hell.

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Fiction

The Grand Babylon Hôtel

Arnold Bennett's sparkling comic thriller set in a grand London hotel, where a millionaire's whim, a vanished guest and a tangle of intrigue turn luxury into high-stakes mystery.

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