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Fiction

The Passionate Friends

H.G.

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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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Horror

The Damned Thing: 1898, From "In the Midst of Life"

Ambrose Bierce's chilling tale of an unseen menace, told at a coroner's inquest over a mangled corpse.

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Art & Design

The Handbook to English Heraldry

A clear, systematic guide to the language and design of English coats of arms.

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History

Shakespearean Playhouses

A pioneering history of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres, reconstructing the playhouses where Shakespeare's dramas first came alive, from the Globe to the Fortune and beyond.

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Biography & Memoir

My Recollections of Lord Byron

An intimate memoir of the poet Lord Byron by one who knew him closely, drawing on personal memory and the testimony of others who shared his life.

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Classics

Lady Audley's Secret

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensational Victorian bestseller, in which a beautiful, seemingly angelic young wife guards a dangerous secret, and a determined amateur sleuth sets out to

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Classics

His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes

A late gathering of Sherlock Holmes cases by Arthur Conan Doyle, ranging from cryptic country mysteries to wartime espionage, closing with the great detective's most sombre and mem

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Classics

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen's chilling novella of forbidden experiment and ancient dread, in which a glimpse behind the veil of the world unleashes a creeping, unnameable horror.

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Nature & Environment

The Book of the National Parks

An early, richly detailed celebration of America's national parks, written to help readers understand and cherish these wild landscapes.

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Classics

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad's dark, ironic novel of anarchists, spies, and a bombing plot in Victorian London.

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Non-fiction

The Parables of Our Lord

A thoughtful study of the parables Jesus told, drawing out the meaning and imagery of these short, enduring stories.

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Fiction

Torchy and Vee

by Sewell Ford

More breezy adventures of Torchy, the wisecracking office boy turned man about business, told in the fast, slangy patter that made the series a comic favourite.

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Fiction

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

A wide-ranging anthology of classic mystery and detective fiction, gathering tales of crime, deduction and the uncanny from many hands.

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Non-fiction

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique

A practical laboratory manual from the era when bacteriology was young, setting out the methods, apparatus and procedures for culturing and studying microorganisms, written to guid

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Fiction

The Red Lily — Complete

Anatole France's novel of a Parisian woman who follows her heart to Florence, where a new passion collides with jealousy, memory, and the cost of desire.

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Children

Practical Mechanics for Boys

A hands-on guide introducing young readers to the principles of mechanics and the pleasures of making things.

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Adventure

The Thirty-Nine Steps

by John Buchan

John Buchan's breakneck thriller of espionage and pursuit.

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Fiction

The Shunned House

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Classics

The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories

by Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin's landmark novel of a woman's sensual and spiritual awakening, gathered with short stories that made her a pioneer of American literature.

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Biography & Memoir

Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

Elizabeth Cady Stanton looks back across a long life at the center of the fight for women's rights.

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Art & Design

The Tapestry Book

An engaging history and appreciation of tapestry, tracing the great weavings of Europe and the stories they tell.

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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

Children's Literature

A gathering of stories, verses, and tales drawn from the rich tradition of writing for the young.

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Fiction

The Horsewoman

A novel whose title promises a woman and the horses at the center of her life, a story of nerve, devotion, and the bond between rider and animal.

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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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Non-fiction

Vegetable Teratology

A nineteenth-century work of botanical science devoted to the abnormal and monstrous forms plants can take.

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Non-fiction

Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

Thomas Tusser's celebrated Tudor manual of farming and household wisdom, set out in memorable rhyming verse.

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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

Plague Ship

A tense science-fiction adventure aboard a free-trading spaceship whose crew, having landed a rich trading deal, find themselves quarantined and accused of carrying a deadly plague

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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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History

Poine

A short literary work whose title carries the old Greek weight of penalty and requital.

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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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Children

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll's dazzling sequel to Wonderland sends Alice through a mirror into a topsy-turvy chessboard world of talking flowers, warring kings, and unforgettable nonsense, where

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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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Children

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne

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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

Undine

by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's exquisite fairy-tale romance of a water spirit who wins a human soul through love.

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Biography & Memoir

A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography

A biographical reference gathering the lives of notable Canadians.

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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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Classics

Complete Short Works of George Meredith

by George Meredith

A gathering of the shorter fiction of George Meredith, the Victorian novelist and poet known for his psychological subtlety and glittering, demanding prose.

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Fiction

The Candidate

A novel that turns its gaze on ambition, public life and the compromises of seeking office or standing.

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Children

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

A clear, orderly retelling of the classical myths, from the gods of Olympus to the heroes and their labours, gathering the ancient stories into one accessible volume.

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