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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's world-shaking novel of slavery in America, whose portrait of human suffering and dignity helped galvanise the abolitionist cause and change the course of a
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The Real Adventure
A novel of a young woman seeking a life of her own beyond the expected roles of marriage and comfort.
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The Ambulance Made Two Trips
A short work whose brisk, arresting title promises incident and consequence.
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Letters of Two Brides
Balzac's epistolary novel following two convent friends into contrasting marriages, one of passion, one of prudence.
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
The classic fictionalised memoir of a legendary Wall Street speculator, still revered as one of the wisest books ever written about markets, trading psychology, and the eternal fol
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Anabasis
Xenophon’s classic march narrative follows a stranded Greek army through retreat, leadership crisis, and survival.
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The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English
An anthology of classic mystery and detective fiction, this volume gathers modern English tales of crime, puzzle and suspense from the golden age of the short story.
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Sir Philip Sidney's sprawling pastoral romance sends disguised princes into a green world of shepherds, love and danger, blending adventure, poetry and courtly ideals in one of the
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The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers's pioneering spy novel of two Englishmen who stumble on a secret while yachting the tidal shallows of the North Sea.
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lord Byron's landmark narrative poem follows a brooding, world-weary wanderer across Europe, blending travel, reflection and passionate feeling to create the archetypal Byronic her
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German composition : $b A theoretical and practical guide to the art of translating English prose into German
A practical textbook for students of German, offering theory, examples and exercises in the art of translating English prose into idiomatic German.
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The Big Fix
A story whose title promises intrigue and the solving of a large problem, a tale of scheming, stakes, and the effort to set something right or put it over.
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss's beloved tale of a shipwrecked family who build an ingenious new life on a tropical island.
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Tales of Terror and Mystery
A collection of dark and suspenseful stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, ranging from the eerie to the horrifying.
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On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin's world-altering argument that life's endless forms arose through descent with modification and natural selection — the book that remade our understanding of nature
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Anarchism and Other Essays
Emma Goldman's bracing collection of essays on anarchism, freedom, and the questions of her age.
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The Philippines a Century Hence
José Rizal's searching essay on the future of his colonised homeland.
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That Which Hath Wings
A wartime novel of love, loss and endurance, its title borrowed from scripture, following characters whose lives are caught up in the shadow of a great conflict.
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Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads
A pioneering collection of the songs and ballads of the American West, gathered from the range and the trail.
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Phaedrus
Plato's luminous dialogue on love, beauty, and the written word, staged as a conversation beneath a plane tree by the Ilissus.
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The Art of Stage Dancing
A practical guide to dance for the stage from the era of vaudeville and the revue, covering technique, training, and the discipline of the professional dancer.
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Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners
A late nineteenth century guide to health, marriage, morality, and the facts of life, written to instruct a rising generation.
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The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Algernon Blackwood's unsettling tales of the uncanny, where dread seeps in through the ordinary.
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
The second volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan continues his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their ruling houses, chivalry and antiquities
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Woodwork Joints: How They Are Set Out, How Made and Where Used
A clear, practical handbook of the woodworker's essential joints — how each is marked out, cut and fitted, and the tasks for which it is best suited.
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A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day
A classic survey of economic thought, tracing the development of theory from the Physiocrats through the great schools of political economy to the modern era.
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In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
A novel of family, fortune and moral testing centred on a disputed inheritance, following the fortunes of those entangled in the De Willoughby claim as long-standing hopes meet the
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The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
William James's spirited defense of the right to believe where evidence runs out, gathered with other essays in his lucid, humane philosophy.
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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
Boccaccio's dazzling collection of a hundred tales, told by young Florentines sheltering from the plague.
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My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
A Boer general's firsthand account of the South African War, written by a commander who fought the British in the field and lived to set the campaign down in his own plain, unflinc
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The Landloper
A tale of the open road and a wandering hero, in which a man on the move stirs up a community and finds himself drawn into its affairs.
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The Hand in the Dark
A classic golden-age style mystery in which a death in a country house sets detection in motion, unfolding through suspicion, hidden motives and patient investigation toward a conc
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Quintus Claudius
A historical romance of imperial Rome, bringing the intrigues, splendour, and dangers of the ancient city to life.
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The Gay Cockade
A collection of short stories in the popular romantic style of the early twentieth century, gathering tales of love, sentiment, and everyday life.
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The Sovereignty of the Sea
A historical study of the long contest over control of the seas, tracing the claims, disputes, and legal battles by which nations asserted dominion over the waters around their coa
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy's tragic masterwork of a country girl wronged and hounded by fate, class and cruel morality, told against the fading beauty of rural Wessex.
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A Literary History of Ireland, from Earliest Times to the Present Day
Douglas Hyde's landmark survey of Irish literature from ancient bardic tradition to modern times.
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'Firebrand' Trevison
A hard-riding Western of the open range, in which a strong-willed man clashes with powerful interests over land, law and love in a frontier town where nerve settles most arguments.
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Poirot Investigates
Eleven brisk cases showcase Hercule Poirot's little grey cells at their sharpest, narrated by the loyal Captain Hastings, in Agatha Christie's first and much-loved collection of th
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce traces Stephen Dedalus from childhood to artistic self-assertion in a modern novel of language, conscience, faith, and ambition.
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The Idiot
Dostoevsky's tragic novel of a guileless, Christlike prince set loose in a grasping St Petersburg society, where his innocence dazzles, disturbs and is finally broken.
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Royal Palaces and Parks of France
An illustrated tour of the great royal palaces and gardens of France, from Versailles and Fontainebleau to the châteaux of the Loire.
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Lone Star Planet
A brisk, witty science-fiction tale of a young diplomat sent to a frontier world where the locals have made the murder of bad politicians perfectly legal.
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The Place of Honeymoons
A romantic novel of love, travel and adventure from the popular fiction of its era.
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Celebrated Crimes
A vivid collection of true and legendary crimes from European history, retold with a novelist's flair for drama and character.
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A Dictionary of Islam
A comprehensive nineteenth-century reference work on the religion, doctrines, rites, and terminology of Islam, arranged for ready consultation.
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Antiquities of the Jews
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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Occasion ... for Disaster
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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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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The Handbook to English Heraldry
A clear, systematic guide to the language and design of English coats of arms.
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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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