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Victor Hugo's sweeping medieval romance, gathered around the great cathedral of Paris and the souls whose fates are bound to it.

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Bertrand Russell's classic short introduction to philosophy, a lucid, invigorating guide to the deepest questions about knowledge, reality and the limits of what we can be sure we

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Sir Walter Scott's private journal, printed from the manuscript at Abbotsford, is one of the great diaries in English, candid, courageous and moving as the celebrated novelist face

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The private meditations of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, written for himself alone.

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Edward MacDowell's lectures on music, delivered at Columbia University, in which the celebrated American composer reflects on the history and meaning of his art with a practitioner

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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a sophisticated classic about desire, marriage, social performance, and the hidden costs of respectability in Gilded Age New York.

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The gathered poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the founding voices of English Romanticism.

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A comprehensive survey of the great writers of ancient Rome, from Plautus and Cicero to Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, tracing the rise and flowering of Latin literature.

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A biography of Charles Frohman, the great American theatrical producer who shaped Broadway and the London stage before his death aboard the Lusitania.

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A foundational chemistry textbook by William McPherson and William Edwards Henderson, introducing the elements, reactions, and laws of the science to beginning students.

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A story of the city's underworld and the struggle to rise out of it, where crime, love and the longing for a better life collide.

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A concise survey of English literature from the medieval age to the Victorian era, tracing its major writers and movements across five centuries.

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A volume of careful, warm-hearted biblical exposition covering Second Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, and the letters that follow: scripture opened passage by pass

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William Stearns Davis's rousing historical novel of ancient Greece, set amid the Persian Wars and the great sea battle of Salamis, where courage and love are tested against the fat

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Mark Twain circles the globe on a lecture tour, notebook in hand, turning ocean crossings, colonial outposts and human folly into wry, watchful travel writing edged with anger.

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A tale of soldiering and valour that takes its title from Tennyson's immortal charge, where six hundred rode into the guns.

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Emile Cammaerts's sweeping history of Belgium, tracing the fortunes of a small but pivotal European land from ancient times to the modern era.

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A guide to education for parents, teachers and the young themselves — setting out principles for the forming of mind and character in a spirit of broad instruction.

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A novel turning on questions of conscience and moral choice, whose title promises a story of a man measured by his decisions.

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A novel by Maria Thompson Daviess set against the contrast of country and city life, its title playing rural Kentucky against the bright lights of the stage.

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A biography of Edward VII, the long-waiting heir who became king and gave his name to an age.

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A tender romance in the popular Victorian tradition, following the trials and devotion of a young woman's heart against obstacles of class and circumstance.

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Virginia Woolf's luminous novel follows a single London day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, weaving memory, consciousness, and the shadow of the Great War.

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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's landmark work reveals the mathematics and physics behind the shapes of living things, uniting biology, geometry, and beauty.

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Hercule Poirot faces not a single killer but a global criminal conspiracy of four masterminds bent on world domination, in Agatha Christie's most unusual and action-packed Poirot a

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A study of alcohol, its nature, effects, and place in human life.

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A wealthy heiress is found murdered aboard the luxury train to the Riviera, her famous rubies gone, and Hercule Poirot, a fellow passenger, takes up a case tangled in money, love a

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A gathering of Emerson's essays, the works that carried American Transcendentalism to the world.

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Plato's account of Socrates' final hours, spent not in fear but in conversation about the soul and its fate.

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Anna Sewell's beloved horse tells his own life story, from green meadows to hard city streets.

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An early twentieth-century educational text linking good citizenship with public and personal health.

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Ovid's dazzling epic of transformation rendered into English blank verse across two volumes.

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A brisk American novel of enterprise, ambition, and fortune-making in a fast-growing town, told with wit and a keen eye for the schemes of its go-getting characters.

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Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling historical romance set in Renaissance Italy: a tale of honour, love, and intrigue among the courts and condottieri of Urbino, told with the master s

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Goethe's towering drama of a scholar who bargains with the devil, rendered into English in the meters of the original.

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A history of the Choctaw Freedmen, formerly enslaved by the Choctaw Nation, and the founding of Oak Hill Industrial Academy to educate their children.

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Frederick Jackson Turner's landmark essays advancing the frontier thesis, arguing that the moving edge of settlement shaped American democracy and character.

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Diogenes Laertius's rich compendium of the lives, sayings and doctrines of the ancient Greek philosophers.

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A survey of American composers of its era, offering portraits of the musicians shaping the nation's serious music.

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Virgil's great Roman epic, following the Trojan hero Aeneas from the ruins of Troy toward the founding of a new destiny in Italy.

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Nietzsche's daring first book, which finds the origins of Greek tragedy in the clash between the Apollonian and the Dionysian.

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A romance carried along by open roads, wild landscapes and the pull of the heart, told in the graceful, atmospheric style of an earlier age of popular fiction.

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A stirring retelling of the great heroic legends of Britain, from Beowulf to the deeds of Arthur and beyond.

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Shakespeare's sparkling early comedy of a king and his lords who forswear love for study, only to be undone by the arrival of a princess and her ladies.

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James Fenimore Cooper's Revolutionary War novel of a mysterious pedlar suspected as a British spy, torn loyalties and midnight risks in the contested no-man's-land of the Hudson.

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The first novel of the notorious French master-criminal Fantômas, a lurid and headlong thriller in which an elusive genius of crime terrorises Paris while a dogged detective pursue

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A short poem meditating on life itself, in the reflective lyric tradition.

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Alexander van Millingen's classic survey walks the great land walls of Constantinople stone by stone, tracing the defences that guarded the Byzantine capital for a thousand years a

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Sax Rohmer's pulp thriller unleashes the criminal mastermind Dr.

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The collected poetry of one of the Victorian age's finest voices, ranging from elegy and lyric to meditations on faith, culture, and loss.

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Arthur Train's engaging stories from the world of law, drawing on his own experience as a lawyer.

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The final collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories gathers twelve late cases for the world's most famous detective, closing the canon with fresh puzzles and a few

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Dante's Inferno in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's celebrated English translation, following the poet's descent through the nine circles of Hell.

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Arnold Bennett's sparkling comic thriller set in a grand London hotel, where a millionaire's whim, a vanished guest and a tangle of intrigue turn luxury into high-stakes mystery.

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Blaise Pascal's unfinished masterpiece: fragments toward a defence of faith by one of history's great mathematical minds.

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A narrative history of Paris, tracing the city's growth from its origins through the centuries of its splendour.

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