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Drama

Carmen

by Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée’s compact novella of obsession, freedom, jealousy, and fatal desire gave the world one of literature’s most enduring heroines.

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Biography & Memoir

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African: Written By Himself

One of the first slave narratives written by a formerly enslaved African, Equiano's 1789 memoir carried a captive from West Africa across the Atlantic to freedom, print, and the fi

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Fiction

The History of Sir Richard Calmady

Lucas Malet's ambitious, controversial novel about a man born with a severe physical deformity and the life he must build in a world of privilege, beauty, and cruelty.

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Children

The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse

One of the great epics of India, the story of Rama's exile, the abduction of Sita, and the war to reclaim her, rendered into English verse.

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Non-fiction

The lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia, the book of evil spirits : $b contains two hundred diagrams and seals for invocation

A classic edition of the Goetia, first book of the Lesser Key of Solomon, the notorious grimoire cataloguing seventy-two spirits with their seals, offices and the rites of their co

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Non-fiction

On the Duties of the Clergy

Saint Ambrose of Milan's early Christian guide to moral conduct, reworking the classical ideal of duty into a pastoral handbook for those who serve the Church.

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History

The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain: Second Edition, Revised

A foundational survey of Britain's prehistoric stone tools, weapons, and ornaments, richly illustrated and carefully classified by type and period.

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Fiction

The Mysteries of Udolpho

by Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe's landmark Gothic novel, in which a young woman, orphaned and imperilled, is carried to a brooding Italian castle where terror, mystery and the power of the imaginati

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Adventure

The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

by Homer

Homer's great homecoming epic in Samuel Butler's clear, readable prose — the ten-year wandering of Odysseus toward Ithaca, his waiting wife and his imperilled home.

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Non-fiction

Pharmacographia

A landmark history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, tracing the plants that became medicines across cultures and centuries.

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Biography & Memoir

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude

by Austin Bidwell

Austin Bidwell's own account of the great Bank of England forgery and the fifteen years of imprisonment that followed.

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Biography & Memoir

The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay

by Mary Wollstonecraft

The intimate letters of the pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to her American lover Gilbert Imlay.

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Adventure

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

by Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift's classic satire following Lemuel Gulliver to lands of miniature people, giants, deranged intellectuals, and rational horses.

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Children

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Rema

The ancient Sanskrit classic attributed to Vatsyayana, presented in the famous Victorian translation.

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Biography & Memoir

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass's electrifying account of his life in bondage and his fight to be free.

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Non-fiction

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

A nineteenth-century traveler's account of a journey across the Sahara, recording the landscapes, peoples, and hardships of the great desert.

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Essays

The Federalist Papers

by Hamilton, Madison, Jay

The foundational essays by Hamilton, Madison and Jay, written to defend the proposed United States Constitution.

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Children

Oedipus King of Thebes: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes

by Sophocles, translated by Gilbert Murray

Sophocles' towering tragedy of the king who unknowingly fulfills a terrible prophecy, here in a rhyming English verse translation with explanatory notes.

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Biography & Memoir

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Franklin, Benjamin

Benjamin Franklin's classic account of his own life, from humble beginnings to fame as a printer, inventor, and statesman.

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Non-fiction

The Works of Mr. George Gillespie

The collected writings of a formidable seventeenth-century Scottish divine, a leading voice at the Westminster Assembly.

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Fiction

White nights, and other stories

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A gathering of Dostoevsky's shorter fiction, led by the tender, aching "White Nights" — four luminous evenings in the life of a St Petersburg dreamer who loves too well and too lat

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Classics

Ulysses

by James Joyce

James Joyce's epic of a single ordinary Dublin day, following Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom through the city.

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Biography & Memoir

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

Mark Twain's rich memoir of learning the great river as a steamboat pilot, then returning years later to find both the Mississippi and America transformed.

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