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An intimate memoir of the poet Lord Byron by one who knew him closely, drawing on personal memory and the testimony of others who shared his life.

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensational Victorian bestseller, in which a beautiful, seemingly angelic young wife guards a dangerous secret, and a determined amateur sleuth sets out to

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A late gathering of Sherlock Holmes cases by Arthur Conan Doyle, ranging from cryptic country mysteries to wartime espionage, closing with the great detective's most sombre and mem

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Arthur Machen's chilling novella of forbidden experiment and ancient dread, in which a glimpse behind the veil of the world unleashes a creeping, unnameable horror.

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An early, richly detailed celebration of America's national parks, written to help readers understand and cherish these wild landscapes.

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Joseph Conrad's dark, ironic novel of anarchists, spies, and a bombing plot in Victorian London.

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A thoughtful study of the parables Jesus told, drawing out the meaning and imagery of these short, enduring stories.

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More breezy adventures of Torchy, the wisecracking office boy turned man about business, told in the fast, slangy patter that made the series a comic favourite.

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A wide-ranging anthology of classic mystery and detective fiction, gathering tales of crime, deduction and the uncanny from many hands.

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A practical laboratory manual from the era when bacteriology was young, setting out the methods, apparatus and procedures for culturing and studying microorganisms, written to guid

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Anatole France's novel of a Parisian woman who follows her heart to Florence, where a new passion collides with jealousy, memory, and the cost of desire.

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A hands-on guide introducing young readers to the principles of mechanics and the pleasures of making things.

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John Buchan's breakneck thriller of espionage and pursuit.

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Kate Chopin's landmark novel of a woman's sensual and spiritual awakening, gathered with short stories that made her a pioneer of American literature.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton looks back across a long life at the center of the fight for women's rights.

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An engaging history and appreciation of tapestry, tracing the great weavings of Europe and the stories they tell.

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A novel by Oliver Onions, a writer prized for his craft and his unsettling command of atmosphere.

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A gathering of stories, verses, and tales drawn from the rich tradition of writing for the young.

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A novel whose title promises a woman and the horses at the center of her life, a story of nerve, devotion, and the bond between rider and animal.

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Aesop's Fables is a timeless collection of moral tales whose talking animals, clever reversals, and concise lessons have shaped storytelling for centuries.

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A nineteenth-century work of botanical science devoted to the abnormal and monstrous forms plants can take.

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Thomas Tusser's celebrated Tudor manual of farming and household wisdom, set out in memorable rhyming verse.

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Voltaire's Candide is a brisk Enlightenment satire that follows its battered hero across wars, disasters, and absurd philosophies while dismantling easy optimism.

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Alexandre Dumas fils turns an affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois lover into a tragic novel of love, sacrifice, class judgment, and social performance.

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A tense science-fiction adventure aboard a free-trading spaceship whose crew, having landed a rich trading deal, find themselves quarantined and accused of carrying a deadly plague

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A fast-moving early science-fiction thriller about tyranny, resistance, and perilous escape in Ray Cummings’s imagined future.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein's austere masterpiece on language, logic and the limits of what can be said.

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A short literary work whose title carries the old Greek weight of penalty and requital.

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Two out-of-work friends advertise themselves as adventurers for hire and stumble into international intrigue, introducing Agatha Christie's beloved sleuthing pair, Tommy and Tuppen

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Lewis Carroll's dazzling sequel to Wonderland sends Alice through a mirror into a topsy-turvy chessboard world of talking flowers, warring kings, and unforgettable nonsense, where

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Aristotle's foundational inquiry into how a human life should be lived, and what it means to flourish.

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A nineteenth-century traveller's account of journeys through the North, blending observation, incident, and wry humour.

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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's exquisite fairy-tale romance of a water spirit who wins a human soul through love.

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A biographical reference gathering the lives of notable Canadians.

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John Milton's towering epic of the fall of humankind, telling of Satan's rebellion, the loss of Eden, and the temptation of Adam and Eve.

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A gathering of the shorter fiction of George Meredith, the Victorian novelist and poet known for his psychological subtlety and glittering, demanding prose.

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A novel that turns its gaze on ambition, public life and the compromises of seeking office or standing.

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A clear, orderly retelling of the classical myths, from the gods of Olympus to the heroes and their labours, gathering the ancient stories into one accessible volume.

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William Bradford's own history of the Plymouth Colony, printed from his original manuscript, is the foundational eyewitness chronicle of the Pilgrims, their voyage, their first har

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One of Thomas Hardy's early novels, a tale of love and social divide set against the dramatic cliffs of the Cornish coast.

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A detailed history of the pivotal 1776 campaign around New York and Brooklyn in the American Revolution, including a full account of the Battle of Long Island: strategy, terrain, a

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Adam Smith's foundational treatise on economics, where the division of labour, free markets, and the famous 'invisible hand' first take shape.

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A biography of Harriet Martineau, the pioneering nineteenth-century writer, social theorist and reformer, tracing the life and work of one of the first women to make a public caree

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A frank, tender novel told through a young woman's letters and diary as she leaves comfort behind for a hard, hopeful life on the North American prairie with the man she has marrie

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A biography of Willard Glazier, Civil War cavalryman, prisoner, escapee, author, and explorer.

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Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, guided first by Virgil and then by Beatrice.

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A witty Shakespearean comedy of exile, disguise, pastoral courtship, and reinvention in the Forest of Arden.

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A historical study of Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror and Duke of Normandy, whose turbulent life and rivalry over the English succession shaped the Anglo-Norma

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An account of Lord Milner's controversial career in South Africa, from his arrival in 1897 through the Boer War to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902: administration, empire, and a d

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The second collection of G.K.

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A vintage juvenile science-fiction adventure that hurtles young readers into the far reaches of space, where a crew must outwit ruthless raiders among the stars in the pulp-era spi

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Christopher Marlowe's mighty tragedy of the scholar who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and power.

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A cycle of elegies celebrating love, sensuality, and the intoxication of Rome, by one of the giants of European letters.

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Mark Twain's uproarious account of his years in the American West, from stagecoach and silver mine to newspaper desk.

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