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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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Anthony Trollope's beloved comedy of clerical politics, where a new bishop, his formidable wife, and an oily chaplain upend the quiet cathedral town of Barchester.

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Hamlin Garland's Pulitzer-winning memoir of prairie life, family, and hard-won artistic ambition, a warm, clear-eyed portrait of the American Midwest and the people who shaped it.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson's founding essay of American Transcendentalism, arguing that the natural world is the visible face of spirit.

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Thomas Hardy’s first published novel blends romance, secrecy, mistaken motives, and melodramatic danger into a fast-moving story of ambition and manipulation.

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James Fergusson's monumental survey of the architecture of India and the East, tracing temples, monuments, and building traditions across centuries.

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A landmark anthology of speeches and orations by Black Americans, gathering the great voices of abolition, uplift, and civil rights in a testament to African American eloquence and

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A retelling of the crusading English king, his wars in the Holy Land and his legend of chivalry, aimed at readers who love medieval history and heroic biography.

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Annie Besant's Theosophical reading of Christianity as a repository of hidden, mystical truths, arguing that behind the familiar faith lies an ancient wisdom meant for the spiritua

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Thomas Carlyle's admiring life of the great German poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller, with a searching study of his plays, poetry, and thought.

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A survey of geology in its practical and economic dimension, examining how the earth's minerals, ores, fuels and materials underpin industry, wealth and the workings of a modern ec

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A vivid archaeological journey through the Eternal City as it passed from pagan antiquity to Christianity, tracing the temples, tombs, and monuments where two worlds met and merged

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The trial record of the notorious 1814 Stock Exchange fraud, in which Lord Cochrane and others stood accused of spreading false news to manipulate the markets: a landmark case of f

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A compact single-volume reference of general knowledge, the Nuttall Encyclopaedia offers brief, wide-ranging entries on people, places, ideas and events, a snapshot of learning fro

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A nineteenth-century polemical travel narrative journeying from the Alps to Rome, arguing a critical case about the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on commerce, law and lear

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William Hone's beloved Every-Day Book, an almanac of British customs, festivals, folklore and popular amusements arranged through the calendar year, this first volume brimming with

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Booker T.

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The firsthand record of one of history's great expeditions, as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark cross the North American continent, charting rivers, peoples, wildlife and landsca

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Nietzsche's swift, incendiary late work, a philosophy delivered with a hammer.

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A warm domestic story of sisters growing up together, in the family-centred tradition of nineteenth-century fiction for young readers.

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A fast-paced Nick Carter detective adventure from the great age of the American dime novel, pitting the famous sleuth against a formidable and dangerous woman.

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A Victorian teaching text by G.

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A nineteenth-century treasury of true and traditional tales about dogs, gathered to celebrate their loyalty, courage, and uncanny intelligence.

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An account of one of America's great public universities, its founding, growth and character.

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A collection of P.

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Dorothy L.

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A vivid contemporary account of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, when a failed dam sent a wall of water through a Pennsylvania valley and killed thousands.

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Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims ride toward Canterbury, swapping stories that argue, tease and confess.

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A scholarly and affectionate history of angling in the ancient world, tracing how the peoples of antiquity fished the rivers and seas.

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The foundational text of geometry, presenting Euclid's first six books of the Elements with their definitions, propositions and proofs.

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A novel centred on a single woman and the course of her life, love, and struggles.

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A vivid collection of Russian folk tales full of shape-shifting magic, dangerous bargains, brave children, and the strange logic of the old wonder tale.

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A treasury of the tales England told its children, gathered from folk tradition.

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A collection of tales gathered from the storytelling traditions of the East, bringing together stories of adventure, wisdom, and wonder.

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John Stuart Mill's foundational treatise on reasoning, evidence, and the methods of science.

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A strange and haunting tale in which an earthly life is shaped by an unseen guiding spirit from another world.

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Three of Cicero's great philosophical works together, the Tusculan Disputations on how to live and die well, On the Nature of the Gods on religion, and On the Commonwealth on the j

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz is the monumental modern classic on strategy, uncertainty, politics, friction, and the enduring logic of armed conflict.

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William Le Queux's fast-moving tale of intrigue and espionage, set among the secrets and dangers of imperial Russia's reach.

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The full range of Maupassant's short fiction, from Norman farmhouses to Parisian salons.

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Francis Bacon's celebrated Essays paired with his Wisdom of the Ancients, gathering some of the shrewdest prose in English.

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