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Fiction

The Sex Life of the Gods

A provocative title from the mid-century paperback tradition, blending myth and pulp appetite.

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Adventure

Thuvia, maid of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs returns to Barsoom for a swift tale of a Martian princess, a lovestruck prince, telepathic beasts and phantom armies across the dying red planet.

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Classics

A farewell to arms

by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway's stark, tender novel of love and war on the Italian front.

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Children

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

Mark Twain's beloved tale of two identical boys, a Tudor prince and a beggar, who trade places and learn hard truths about power and poverty in old England.

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Adventure

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain is a witty, inventive classic that blends time travel, satire, adventure, and social criticism.

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Children

Four Arthurian Romances

by Chretien de Troyes

Chrétien de Troyes's foundational tales of Arthur's court — knightly quests, courtly love and moral trial from the poet who shaped the Round Table for all who followed.

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Adventure

The Misplaced Battleship

A brisk, witty science-fiction caper in the golden tradition of the interstellar rogue.

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Non-fiction

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill's landmark defence of individual freedom against the pressure of the state and the crowd.

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Children

Poems Every Child Should Know

A beloved anthology gathering the poems generations were once expected to grow up with — verses to be memorised, recited, and carried for life.

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History

Roman Stoicism

A study of Stoic philosophy as it flowered in the Roman world, tracing how a demanding Greek school became the ethical backbone of an empire.

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History

The Waterloo Roll Call

by Charles Dalton

Charles Dalton's meticulous roster of the British officers present at Waterloo, with biographical notes on their lives and services.

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Adventure

A Honeymoon in Space

by George Griffith

George Griffith sends newlyweds beyond Earth for a fin-de-siècle voyage through the solar system, mixing wonder, satire, and early spacefaring imagination.

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Classics

The Complete Works of Jane Austen

The complete works of Jane Austen gathered in one volume, from Pride and Prejudice to Emma and Persuasion, the full range of her wit, irony, and unmatched understanding of the huma

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Non-fiction

Second Treatise of Government

by John Locke

John Locke's foundational argument for natural rights, consent and limited government.

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Non-fiction

Calculus Made Easy

by Silvanus P. Thompson

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Fiction

The Man Who Was Thursday

by G. K. Chesterton

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Fiction

The Green Mummy

A twisting Victorian-era mystery from Fergus Hume, in which a stolen Peruvian mummy, a scholar's obsession and a sudden death draw a small English circle into suspicion and detecti

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Biography & Memoir

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete

Suetonius's gossipy, unforgettable portraits of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors, packed with scandal, omen and telling detail from the heart of imperial Rome.

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History

The Anabasis of Alexander : $b or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the Great

Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander, the most trusted ancient account of Alexander the Great's campaigns, follows the Macedonian conqueror from Greece to the edge of India in discipline

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Historical Fiction

The Lady of the Lake

by Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott's sweeping narrative poem of the Scottish Highlands, weaving love, honour, and clan rivalry around a mysterious lady and a hunted king.

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Crime

The Secret of Chimneys

by Agatha Christie

A casual errand draws a footloose adventurer into murder, blackmail and international intrigue at a grand English country house, in one of Agatha Christie's most sparkling early th

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Children

The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII

by Ovid (translated by Arthur Golding)

The first seven books of Ovid's dazzling poem of transformation, from the making of the world through a cascade of myths in which gods and mortals are changed into beast, tree and

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Art & Design

Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art

A study of how the ancient Greeks commemorated their victorious athletes in sculpture and monument, tracing the meeting point of sport, religion and art in the classical world.

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Non-fiction

Color Images from Mars Rovers: Spirit and Opportunity

A collection of colour images sent back from the surface of Mars by NASA's twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.

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Non-fiction

Putnam's Word Book

A practical word book and writer's reference, gathering synonyms, related terms and shades of meaning to help anyone choose language with more precision, variety and care.

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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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