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Leviathan

by Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes's landmark of political philosophy, arguing that only a strong sovereign can lift humanity out of the violent chaos of the state of nature.

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Classics

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau's two great works together: the record of his experiment in simple living by Walden Pond, and his ringing argument for conscience over unjust law.

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Non-fiction

The 2006 CIA World Factbook

The 2006 edition of the celebrated global almanac, profiling every nation's geography, people, government and economy in one clear reference.

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History

Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

by T. Rice Holmes

A rigorous scholarly reconstruction of pre-Roman Britain and Caesar's two expeditions across the Channel.

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Adventure

Beowulf

by Francis Barton Gummere (translator)

The great Old English epic of a hero who battles a monster, its vengeful mother, and finally a dragon, in Francis Barton Gummere's stately verse translation.

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Fiction

Thus Spake Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's visionary philosophical masterwork, in which the prophet Zarathustra descends to teach the overman, eternal recurrence and the transvaluation of values.

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Non-fiction

The 2003 CIA World Factbook

by United States Central Intelligence Agency

A comprehensive almanac of the world's nations as they stood in 2003, gathering geography, population, government, economy and more into one indispensable reference.

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Adventure

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

by Mark Twain

Mark Twain's immortal boyhood idyll: whitewashed fences, midnight graveyards, hidden treasure and a cave.

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Non-fiction

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

by Grenville Kleiser

A practical treasury of ready-made phrases and expressions, gathered to help writers and speakers reach for the apt word with grace, precision and a little more colour.

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Biography & Memoir

The Confessions of St. Augustine

by St. Augustine

Augustine of Hippo turns his life into a prayer, tracing a restless soul from youthful appetite to faith.

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Essays

A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or countr

by Swift, Jonathan

Jonathan Swift's ferocious 1729 satire, straight-faced and monstrous, coolly proposing that the poor of Ireland sell their children as food.

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Adventure

The Adventures of Roderick Random

by Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett's boisterous eighteenth-century picaresque, following a young Scotsman through misfortune, sea voyages, and rogues aplenty in a raucous, satirical tour of Georgian

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Children

The Two Magics

by Henry James

Henry James pairs his celebrated ghost story with a lighter companion tale.

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Adventure

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding's sprawling comic masterpiece follows a good-hearted foundling through misadventure, love, and English society toward the truth of his birth.

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Essays

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

by Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett's comic epistolary masterpiece sends a cantankerous squire and his household on a rollicking tour of eighteenth-century Britain, told through their clashing letters

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Adventure

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete

by Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett's picaresque novel follows a charming, unscrupulous rogue as he cheats and connives his way across eighteenth century Europe.

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Classics

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen’s breakthrough drama turns a bourgeois marriage into one of modern literature’s sharpest studies of freedom, performance, and self-respect.

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Classics

Spoon River Anthology

by Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology lets the dead of a small American town speak in piercing monologues of ambition, shame, desire, and regret.

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Fiction

The Enchanted April

by Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim's radiant novel of four very different Englishwomen who share a medieval Italian castle for a month, and find themselves gently transformed.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s sparkling social comedy turns false names, courtship, and perfect manners into one of the sharpest and funniest plays in English.

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History

Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

by United States Warren Commission

The official Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F.

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Classics

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fiction

The Blue Castle

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Fantasy

The King in Yellow

Robert W.

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