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Goethe's incendiary early novel lays bare the anguished heart of a sensitive young man consumed by hopeless love, a work that gripped a generation, defined literary Romanticism and

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Benjamin Disraeli's romance follows a young heir who falls suddenly and completely in love, only to find passion at war with debt, duty, and circumstance.

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Matthew Lewis's notorious Gothic novel, a lurid, gripping tale of a revered monk undone by temptation, in which piety collapses into obsession, corruption and supernatural terror.

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A reference resource from the Moby lexical project, gathering lists of common words across multiple languages, a practical trove for linguists, word-lovers, puzzle-makers and anyon

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Jules Verne's thrilling descent into the hollow depths of the planet, where a determined professor and his companions find a lost world beneath our feet.

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The once and future king, his fellowship of the Round Table, and the long dream of Camelot, retold with the sweep and sorrow of the old romances.

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A substantial devotional study of the life and mission of Jesus, drawing on scripture to present his ministry, teaching and significance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Silvanus P.

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Maurice Leblanc's dazzling debut collection introducing Arsène Lupin, the charming master thief who robs the rich, outwits the police, and turns every crime into a performance.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A landmark history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, tracing the plants that became medicines across cultures and centuries.

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Austin Bidwell's own account of the great Bank of England forgery and the fifteen years of imprisonment that followed.

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The intimate letters of the pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to her American lover Gilbert Imlay.

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Jonathan Swift's classic satire following Lemuel Gulliver to lands of miniature people, giants, deranged intellectuals, and rational horses.

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The ancient Sanskrit classic attributed to Vatsyayana, presented in the famous Victorian translation.

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Frederick Douglass's electrifying account of his life in bondage and his fight to be free.

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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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The foundational essays by Hamilton, Madison and Jay, written to defend the proposed United States Constitution.

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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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Benjamin Franklin's classic account of his own life, from humble beginnings to fame as a printer, inventor, and statesman.

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The collected writings of a formidable seventeenth-century Scottish divine, a leading voice at the Westminster Assembly.

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A gathering of Dostoevsky's shorter fiction, led by the tender, aching "White Nights" — four luminous evenings in the life of a St Petersburg dreamer who loves too well and too lat

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James Joyce's epic of a single ordinary Dublin day, following Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom through the city.

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Mark Twain's rich memoir of learning the great river as a steamboat pilot, then returning years later to find both the Mississippi and America transformed.

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Thomas Hobbes's landmark of political philosophy, arguing that only a strong sovereign can lift humanity out of the violent chaos of the state of nature.

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