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A collection of literary and historical essays, ranging across authors, ideas, and eras with the reflective breadth of a cultivated critical mind.

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A detailed history of Britain's fraught relationship with the American Civil War, examining diplomacy, public opinion and the tensions that nearly drew the two nations into open co

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A first-person memoir told in the author's own voice, recounting a remarkable life and the struggles, convictions, and events that shaped it.

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Jacques Futrelle's classic detective tale, in which the brilliant Professor Van Dusen, the Thinking Machine, wagers he can escape a locked prison cell using only his intellect.

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A rich collection of Italian folk stories gathered from oral tradition: fairy tales, legends, and comic anecdotes from across the peninsula.

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Booth Tarkington’s comic portrait of Midwestern boyhood follows Penrod Schofield through pranks, friendships, and social embarrassment.

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The second volume of a life told largely through the letters of a leading Royal Navy commander of the Napoleonic wars.

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Robert E.

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A collection of short stories about Pennsylvania, originally prepared for publication in the state's leading daily newspapers, offering brief tales drawn from its people, places an

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Cardinal Gibbons's enduring explanation and defense of Catholic belief, written in plain, generous prose for believers, seekers, and the simply curious alike.

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Henri Bergson’s major philosophical work rethinks life, mind, time, and change through a bold critique of mechanism and a dynamic account of evolution.

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An inviting introduction to philosophical thinking, written to lead newcomers past jargon and into the real questions.

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A work whose title evokes the turning of the world and the cycles of human life.

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William James's landmark study of religion as lived personal experience, examining conversion, mysticism, saintliness, and the inner life of faith with the eye of a pioneering psyc

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Baldassare Castiglione's Renaissance dialogue imagines the perfect courtier over four candlelit evenings at Urbino, weighing grace, wit, love and virtue with the ease of good compa

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A historical novel of old French Canada, following friendship and loyalty as the fortunes of war divide two young men.

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A compact Hercule Poirot mystery from Agatha Christie.

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William Graham Sumner's influential study of how customs, habits, and mores shape human societies.

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A warm-hearted story of young women returning from a religious gathering determined to live out their new faith, carrying earnest ideals into the tests of everyday life.

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Charles Darwin's world-changing 1859 work, laying out the theory of evolution by natural selection with patient evidence and cautious brilliance.

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A classic Spanish-language reader assembling passages for students of the language and of Spanish American life and letters.

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Jonathan Swift's intimate letters to Esther Johnson, written from London during his years at the heart of politics.

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The very first issue of a legendary pulp magazine, this January 1930 number launched what would become a cornerstone of American science fiction.

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A tender, enormously popular romance about love tested by pride, appearance, and the slow work of the heart.

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Classic pulp science fiction from John W.

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The vivid, troubling first-hand narrative of a nineteenth-century adventurer's years in the Atlantic slave trade.

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A historical study of William Pitt the Younger and Britain's recovery and resurgence under his leadership.

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Randolph B.

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Julia Cartwright's graceful biography brings to life Beatrice d'Este, the brilliant young Duchess of Milan whose short career sat at the dazzling, dangerous centre of the Italian R

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A scholarly survey of the institutions of ancient Rome, its magistrates, assemblies, senate, and law, explaining how the Republic and Empire were actually governed.

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Thomas Hardy's poignant novel of a love that reaches across barriers of class and age, played out beneath the vast indifference of the stars.

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Eugène Sue's sprawling nineteenth-century epic of intrigue, following a scattered family pursued across the world by a ruthless conspiracy.

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A distinguished collection of essays surveying what the modern world owes to ancient Greece, from philosophy and science to art, literature, and religion.

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Hudson Stuck's vivid record of winter journeys by dog sled across Alaska, a missionary-explorer's account of the far North, its trails, peoples and unforgiving cold.

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The famous Anglo-Indian glossary that traces how words like bungalow, shampoo, curry and pyjama passed from India into English, part dictionary, part treasure-house of colonial enc

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A foundational inquiry into how we ought to live and what makes conduct right or good.

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An early Sinclair Lewis novel about a restless young American who trades the flatness of small-town life for the open sky, finding in flight and ambition a new kind of frontier.

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A vivid gallery of frontier types drawn from the border life of the American West, sketching the settlers, adventurers and originals who peopled a raw and changing land.

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The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is a foundational work of history and political realism on war, power, leadership, rhetoric, and civil conflict.

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A young woman is found dead beneath the seat of a railway carriage, her jewels missing, and Hercule Poirot untangles a crime of theft, deception and family secrets in this compact

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A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne is a foundational science-fiction adventure filled with subterranean wonder, peril, discovery, and scientific imagination.

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Dorothy L.

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An insider's sweeping memoir of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing his rise from soldier to emperor and his fall, drawn from close personal acquaintance with one of history's most consequ

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A generous story collection offering a tale for every week of the year, gathered for young readers.

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Camille Flammarion's beloved introduction to the night sky, written to make the heavens accessible to anyone willing to look up.

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A historically revealing survey of Indian society and religion, best read today with attention to its missionary-colonial perspective.

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Agatha Christie's short case sends Hercule Poirot after a dead man's hidden testament, a puzzle set as a deliberate test of wits, solved by the little Belgian's endlessly methodica

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The short, incendiary pamphlet by Marx and Engels that reframed history as a struggle between classes.

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A twisting Victorian mystery of stolen jewels, hidden identities and patient detection, in which a determined investigator works to unmask the schemers behind a web of theft and de

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Ingersoll Lockwood's curious Victorian fantasy.

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Thornton Burgess's charming natural-history storybook, introducing young readers to the birds and mammals of the American wild through the gentle lessons of Mother Nature and her w

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A contemporary account of the catastrophic 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, gathering the terrible events into a single dramatic record.

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A short novel about love, memory, and the ache of a passion recalled from later life.

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Twain and Warner’s satirical novel exposes speculation, corruption, boosterism, and political performance in post–Civil War America.

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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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