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Art & Design

A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

Clara Erskine Clement Waters's accessible survey of the great arts — painting, sculpture and architecture — written to guide beginners through the story of human creativity.

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History

An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

by Henry C. Lea

Henry Charles Lea's landmark history of clerical celibacy, tracing the long and contested development of the Church's discipline of the unmarried priesthood.

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Mystery

The Murder on the Links

by Agatha Christie

Summoned to France by a frightened millionaire, Hercule Poirot arrives too late to prevent a murder and finds himself matching wits with a proud French detective, in one of Agatha

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Mystery

The Seven Dials Mystery

by Agatha Christie

A practical joke at a country house ends in death, and the irrepressible Bundle Brimble finds herself chasing a secret society through 1920s England in one of Agatha Christie's bre

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Classics

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe's world-shaking novel of slavery in America, whose portrait of human suffering and dignity helped galvanise the abolitionist cause and change the course of a

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Classics

Letters of Two Brides

by Balzac, Honoré de

Balzac's epistolary novel following two convent friends into contrasting marriages, one of passion, one of prudence.

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Adventure

Anabasis

by Xenophon

Xenophon’s classic march narrative follows a stranded Greek army through retreat, leadership crisis, and survival.

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Adventure

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

Erskine Childers's pioneering spy novel of two Englishmen who stumble on a secret while yachting the tidal shallows of the North Sea.

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Classics

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

by Lord Byron

Lord Byron's landmark narrative poem follows a brooding, world-weary wanderer across Europe, blending travel, reflection and passionate feeling to create the archetypal Byronic her

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Fantasy

The Green Mouse

by Robert W. Chambers

Robert W.

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Adventure

The Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

Johann David Wyss's beloved tale of a shipwrecked family who build an ingenious new life on a tropical island.

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Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays

by Goldman, Emma

Emma Goldman's bracing collection of essays on anarchism, freedom, and the questions of her age.

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Fiction

Ann Veronica

by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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Biography & Memoir

My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War

by Ben J. Viljoen

A Boer general's firsthand account of the South African War, written by a commander who fought the British in the field and lived to set the campaign down in his own plain, unflinc

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Adventure

Peter the Brazen

by George F. Worts

George F.

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Crime

Poirot Investigates

by Agatha Christie

Eleven brisk cases showcase Hercule Poirot's little grey cells at their sharpest, narrated by the loyal Captain Hastings, in Agatha Christie's first and much-loved collection of th

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Classics

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

James Joyce traces Stephen Dedalus from childhood to artistic self-assertion in a modern novel of language, conscience, faith, and ambition.

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Classics

Carmilla

by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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Crime

Celebrated Crimes

by Alexandre Dumas

A vivid collection of true and legendary crimes from European history, retold with a novelist's flair for drama and character.

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Non-fiction

A Dictionary of Islam

by Thomas Patrick Hughes

A comprehensive nineteenth-century reference work on the religion, doctrines, rites, and terminology of Islam, arranged for ready consultation.

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Fiction

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill

by Alice Hegan Rice

Alice Hegan Rice, author of Mrs.

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History

Antiquities of the Jews

by Flavius Josephus

Josephus's monumental history of the Jewish people, from the creation of the world through the biblical narrative to the eve of revolt against Rome.

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Fiction

Occasion ... for Disaster

by Randall Garrett

Randall Garrett’s brisk Cold War science-fiction caper turns paranoia, bureaucracy, and psychic disruption into a fast-moving comic thriller.

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Fiction

A Case in Camera

by Oliver Onions

A novel by Oliver Onions, a writer prized for his craft and his unsettling command of atmosphere.

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Children

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop

Aesop's Fables is a timeless collection of moral tales whose talking animals, clever reversals, and concise lessons have shaped storytelling for centuries.

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Classics

Candide

by Voltaire

Voltaire's Candide is a brisk Enlightenment satire that follows its battered hero across wars, disasters, and absurd philosophies while dismantling easy optimism.

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Classics

Camille

by Alexandre Dumas fils

Alexandre Dumas fils turns an affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois lover into a tragic novel of love, sacrifice, class judgment, and social performance.

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Adventure

Tarrano the Conqueror

by Ray Cummings

A fast-moving early science-fiction thriller about tyranny, resistance, and perilous escape in Ray Cummings’s imagined future.

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Non-fiction

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

by Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Ludwig Wittgenstein's austere masterpiece on language, logic and the limits of what can be said.

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Crime

The Secret Adversary

by Agatha Christie

Two out-of-work friends advertise themselves as adventurers for hire and stumble into international intrigue, introducing Agatha Christie's beloved sleuthing pair, Tommy and Tuppen

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Classics

The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle

by Aristotle

Aristotle's foundational inquiry into how a human life should be lived, and what it means to flourish.

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Non-fiction

The Land of Thor

by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)

A nineteenth-century traveller's account of journeys through the North, blending observation, incident, and wry humour.

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Children

Anne of the Island

by L. M. Montgomery

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Classics

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

John Milton's towering epic of the fall of humankind, telling of Satan's rebellion, the loss of Eden, and the temptation of Adam and Eve.

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Fiction

The call of Cthulhu

by H. P. Lovecraft

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Fiction

A pair of blue eyes

by Thomas Hardy

One of Thomas Hardy's early novels, a tale of love and social divide set against the dramatic cliffs of the Cornish coast.

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Adventure

Sword and Pen: Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier

by John Algernon Owens

A biography of Willard Glazier, Civil War cavalryman, prisoner, escapee, author, and explorer.

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Classics

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

A witty Shakespearean comedy of exile, disguise, pastoral courtship, and reinvention in the Forest of Arden.

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Humor

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

Mark Twain's uproarious account of his years in the American West, from stagecoach and silver mine to newspaper desk.

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Adventure

Catriona

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson continues David Balfour’s adventures through kidnapping, legal peril, divided loyalties, romance, and Jacobite intrigue with wit and momentum.

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History

The Governments of Europe

by Ogg, Frederic Austin

A comprehensive survey of European political systems by Frederic Austin Ogg, describing the constitutions, institutions and everyday workings of the continent's governments.

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Essays

Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre

by De Cleyre, Voltairine

A gathering of the essays, poems and lectures of Voltairine de Cleyre, one of American anarchism's most eloquent voices.

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Adventure

The Silent Barrier

by Louis Tracy

Louis Tracy’s alpine romance-thriller of chance encounter, concealed motive, social performance, and danger in the high Engadine.

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Crime

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's very first novel, and the debut of Hercule Poirot.

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Fiction

The Cask of Amontillado

by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece of cold revenge, told by a narrator luring his victim into the catacombs by the promise of a rare wine.

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Classics

Dubliners

by James Joyce

James Joyce's incomparable collection of stories mapping the everyday lives of early-twentieth-century Dublin.

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Biography & Memoir

Autobiography of a Yogi

by Paramahansa Yogananda

Paramahansa Yogananda's celebrated spiritual autobiography, a luminous account of a life devoted to yoga, meditation, and the search for God, and the book that introduced millions

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