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The most famous word-finder in the English language: Peter Mark Roget's great map of meaning, grouping the tongue's riches by idea rather than alphabet.

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A witty gallery of English character sketches from the early seventeenth century, portraying types high and low with sharp observation and dry humour.

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Plato’s compact defense of Socrates joins courtroom speech to enduring questions about philosophy and conscience.

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Solomon Northup's searing 1853 memoir: a free Black man from New York, lured south and kidnapped into slavery in Louisiana, endures twelve years in bondage before his desperate str

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Robert Boyle's landmark 1661 dialogue challenges the old doctrines of the alchemists and Aristotelians, pressing the questions that would help turn alchemy into modern chemistry.

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Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths: Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911 is a polished DotBooks classic tale collection for readers who want w

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Bill Nye’s illustrated satirical history turns major episodes of the American past into brisk, deadpan comic sketches.

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George Saintsbury's sweeping survey of the golden age of English writing, from its poets and dramatists to its prose.

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Catharine Esther Beecher’s influential nineteenth-century manual blends household management, health guidance, moral instruction, and practical advice for domestic life and educati

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First-person testimony of enslaved and formerly enslaved people, preserving in their own words the experience of bondage, resistance and the long reach toward freedom in America.

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Louise Imogen Guiney's A Little English Gallery gathers graceful literary portraits of Lady Danvers, Henry Vaughan, George Farquhar, Beauclerk and Langton, and William Hazlitt.

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Rabelais's riotous Renaissance saga of two giants — a torrent of comedy, satire, learning and appetite that celebrates the body, the mind and the freedom of laughter.

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A popular history of the fighting ship, tracing how vessels of war evolved across the ages.

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A classic Persian frame-tale in which a young man, condemned to death, spins story after story to buy time and reveal the truth.

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A Victorian-American tale of deception and detection, in which a young woman betrayed by those she trusted is drawn into a world of disguise, pursuit and hard-won justice.

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The complete three series of Emily Dickinson's poems, the quiet Amherst recluse whose compressed, dazzling verse remade American poetry.

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Horace Walpole's foundational gothic novel, where a doomed castle, a monstrous prophecy, and supernatural terror announce a whole new genre.

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A later collection of Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries, framed by the priest's own account of his method.

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George Meredith's late novel of a headstrong marriage gone wrong, told with his signature wit and psychological depth.

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The biting verse satires of Rome's great satirists, Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius, rendered into English prose with notes, offering an unsparing portrait of ancient Roman

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A scholarly inquiry into where poetry comes from, tracing verse back to song, ritual and the communal life of early peoples.

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A collection of the great love stories of history, retelling the famous romances and attachments of kings, queens, and celebrated figures.

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A pioneering argument that folklore, the tales, customs, and beliefs of a people, can be read as genuine historical evidence.

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