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A lively installment in the classic Rover Boys series of adventures for young readers.

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An epistolary work told through a series of letters, in the eighteenth-century tradition of the novel in correspondence, unfolding its story and sentiment through the exchange of w

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Agatha Christie's very first novel, and the debut of Hercule Poirot.

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Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece of cold revenge, told by a narrator luring his victim into the catacombs by the promise of a rare wine.

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A bawdy, high-spirited collection of Renaissance tales in the tradition of Boccaccio: a hundred short stories of wit, mischief, love, and folly, told for the pleasure of good compa

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A collection of bite-sized detective puzzles, each a small crime laid out for the reader to solve in minutes — with the solution turning on a single telling detail.

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John Fiske's classic study of the turbulent years between American independence and the Constitution, when the young republic nearly came apart.

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James Joyce's incomparable collection of stories mapping the everyday lives of early-twentieth-century Dublin.

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A sweeping romance of the French Revolution from the great Dumas, carrying its characters through the fever of Paris as an old regime falls and a new age is born in blood.

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The opening book of Edmund Spenser's great Elizabethan epic, following the Red Cross Knight and the lady Una on a quest that is at once a thrilling romance and a rich allegory of h

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Edward Westermarck's landmark study tracing the origins and development of marriage across human societies.

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Dickens's tantalizing final novel, a tale of obsession and disappearance in a cathedral town, left forever unfinished by the author's death mid-story.

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Paramahansa Yogananda's celebrated spiritual autobiography, a luminous account of a life devoted to yoga, meditation, and the search for God, and the book that introduced millions

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Holman Day's brisk sea-and-shore adventure of a young man making his way in the hard world of shipping and coastal trade, full of salt air, rivalry and grit.

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An adventure tale built around the lure of hidden riches, following the search for a fabled treasure of pearls.

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The King James Version of the Bible is the landmark 1611 English translation whose language, cadence, and imagery shaped centuries of literature, worship, and public speech.

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Gaston Leroux's haunting gothic romance of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera and fixes his obsession on a young soprano.

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Berta Ruck’s wartime novel blends romance, aviation, danger, and emotional resilience in a story shaped by flight and modern longing.

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A king's own hand, unguarded and impatient: the surviving letters Henry VIII wrote to Anne Boleyn as desire, dynasty, and the fate of a church all began to gather around a single c

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The original penny dreadful that gave the world Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, and Mrs Lovett's terrible pies.

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A romance of motoring and intrigue from the golden age of the automobile, when the open road promised adventure, mystery and love.

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The declassified wartime guide produced by the American OSS, teaching ordinary citizens in occupied Europe how to obstruct the enemy through everyday slowness and mistakes.

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A historical adventure novel of loyalty, intrigue, and derring-do set against the turbulence of eighteenth-century England.

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Henry Charles Lea's landmark study of medieval legal procedure, tracing how Europe sought truth through oaths, trial by combat, the ordeal, and torture.

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Compton Mackenzie's elegant first novel, a witty and stylish period romance set in an eighteenth-century spa town.

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The Abbé Prévost's famous tale of a young man's ruinous passion for the beautiful, faithless Manon.

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A detailed early twentieth-century engineering handbook on building with concrete, setting out the practical methods, materials and economics of a material then transforming constr

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A nineteenth-century historical romance of pursuit, loyalty, and danger unfolding through woodland England.

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A collection of biographical accounts of Jewish people who converted to Christianity, gathering the lives and testimonies of many such figures from across the centuries in one devo

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The legendary seducer reimagined as the hero of a sprawling, satirical verse epic.

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A witty Victorian send-up of the dry grammar book, teaching the rules of English through humour, satire and comic example, so that the driest of subjects becomes an unexpected sour

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An illustrated study of American mushrooms — edible, poisonous and curious — combining careful description with the naturalist's delight in one of nature's strangest kingdoms.

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A novel following its heroine, Linnet, through the fortunes of love and circumstance.

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A wide-ranging account of the Philippine archipelago — its lands, peoples, and history.

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Daniel Defoe’s enduring adventure classic follows Robinson Crusoe through shipwreck, solitude, labor, fear, and survival on a remote island.

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Shakespeare’s moonlit comedy mixes lovers, fairies, artisans, and theatrical mischief in one of the most durable plays of enchantment and confusion.

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A seafaring tale presented in an edition associated with Andrew Lang, the great Victorian anthologist and man of letters.

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A remarkably thorough nineteenth-century American reference describing nearly eleven hundred vegetable species and varieties: a gardener's and farmer's encyclopedia of what grew in

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An early Middle English verse retelling of the opening books of the Bible, rendering the great stories of creation, the patriarchs, and the deliverance from Egypt in the poetry of

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo, an old soldier of Cortés, recounts the conquest of Mexico as he lived it, this first volume opening one of history's great firsthand adventure narratives.

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A biography of Emily Brontë, the fiercely private author of Wuthering Heights, seeking the life and inner world behind one of English literature's most singular and enigmatic imagi

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A dramatic sequel to Dumas's beloved Count of Monte Cristo, carrying the saga of vengeance, fortune and destiny into a new generation.

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Plutarch's wide-ranging essays and dialogues on how to live, think, and govern oneself.

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Epictetus's compact handbook of Stoic wisdom, distilled by his pupil Arrian.

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A notorious work of Victorian erotic fiction, published anonymously and long circulated underground.

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A curated collection of primary documents tracing the early Christian church from the apostolic age through the great councils.

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A novel probing the pressures of reputation, appearance, and social judgment on the choices people make.

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The life of José Rizal, the Philippines' national hero, drawn largely from his own words: the memories, reflections and testimony of the writer and patriot whose ideas helped awake

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A retired industrialist is found stabbed in his study, and Hercule Poirot comes out of quiet seclusion to investigate, in the Agatha Christie novel routinely named one of the fines

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A narrative portrait of the court, favourites and intrigues of Elizabeth I.

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Oscar Wilde’s long prison letter turns suffering, memory, vanity, love, humiliation, and spiritual reckoning into one of the most searching autobiographical works in English.

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Harriet Jacobs's searing first-person account of enslavement, escape, and seven years hidden in a cramped attic.

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Timothy Dexter's gloriously eccentric self-published tract, famous for its erratic spelling and absent punctuation, which the author supplied by the page for readers to insert them

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A wide-ranging anthology of writing from the American South across more than three centuries, gathering poetry, prose and historical documents to trace the literary voice of a regi

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A late-Victorian novel of society, conscience, and thwarted feeling by the writer known as John Oliver Hobbes.

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The second Sherlock Holmes novel sends the great detective and Dr.

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Washington Irving's immortal tale of the gangling schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, the drowsy Dutch hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, and the terrifying midnight rider who haunts its glen.

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The private letters of Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine trace one of history's most famous relationships from passionate ardor to estrangement, offering an intimate view of the empe

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Charles Dickens's timeless ghost story of a miser, three spirits, and one cold heart thawed in a single night.

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A story of the American West and a spirited young heroine, set against frontier country where identity, belonging and the past all come into play.

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