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Henry David Thoreau's two great works together: the record of his experiment in simple living by Walden Pond, and his ringing argument for conscience over unjust law.

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The 2006 edition of the celebrated global almanac, profiling every nation's geography, people, government and economy in one clear reference.

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A rigorous scholarly reconstruction of pre-Roman Britain and Caesar's two expeditions across the Channel.

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The great Old English epic of a hero who battles a monster, its vengeful mother, and finally a dragon, in Francis Barton Gummere's stately verse translation.

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Friedrich Nietzsche's visionary philosophical masterwork, in which the prophet Zarathustra descends to teach the overman, eternal recurrence and the transvaluation of values.

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A comprehensive almanac of the world's nations as they stood in 2003, gathering geography, population, government, economy and more into one indispensable reference.

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Mark Twain's immortal boyhood idyll: whitewashed fences, midnight graveyards, hidden treasure and a cave.

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A practical treasury of ready-made phrases and expressions, gathered to help writers and speakers reach for the apt word with grace, precision and a little more colour.

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Augustine of Hippo turns his life into a prayer, tracing a restless soul from youthful appetite to faith.

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Jonathan Swift's ferocious 1729 satire, straight-faced and monstrous, coolly proposing that the poor of Ireland sell their children as food.

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Tobias Smollett's boisterous eighteenth-century picaresque, following a young Scotsman through misfortune, sea voyages, and rogues aplenty in a raucous, satirical tour of Georgian

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Henry James pairs his celebrated ghost story with a lighter companion tale.

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Henry Fielding's sprawling comic masterpiece follows a good-hearted foundling through misadventure, love, and English society toward the truth of his birth.

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Tobias Smollett's comic epistolary masterpiece sends a cantankerous squire and his household on a rollicking tour of eighteenth-century Britain, told through their clashing letters

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Tobias Smollett's picaresque novel follows a charming, unscrupulous rogue as he cheats and connives his way across eighteenth century Europe.

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Henrik Ibsen’s breakthrough drama turns a bourgeois marriage into one of modern literature’s sharpest studies of freedom, performance, and self-respect.

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Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology lets the dead of a small American town speak in piercing monologues of ambition, shame, desire, and regret.

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Elizabeth von Arnim's radiant novel of four very different Englishwomen who share a medieval Italian castle for a month, and find themselves gently transformed.

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Oscar Wilde’s sparkling social comedy turns false names, courtship, and perfect manners into one of the sharpest and funniest plays in English.

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The official Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F.

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The life of one of the most fearless reformers of his age, a champion of free thought and free speech who fought his way into public life.

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A Room with a View by E.

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A sweeping study of where our sense of right and wrong comes from, drawing on custom, law, and belief across many peoples.

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Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a respectable doctor and his monstrous alter ego, a taut and unsettling fable of the double life hidden within a single divided soul.

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Herman Melville's vast, oceanic masterpiece of obsession and the whale.

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Henry James's great late novel of Europe, self-discovery, missed chances, and the cost of a truly examined life.

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A spirited young American inherits a fortune and the freedom to choose her own life in Europe, only to find her choices narrowing.

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Henry James’s gothic novella traps a young governess, two children, and a country house inside one of literature’s most unnerving studies in ambiguity, repression, and dread.

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Herman Melville's tense novella sets an American captain aboard a strange Spanish slave ship where nothing is as it seems, in a masterful, unsettling study of slavery, perception a

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Herman Melville's haunting final work.

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Herman Melville's rollicking sequel to Typee, following a restless sailor through the islands of the South Pacific.

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A sailor jumps ship in the South Pacific and lives among an island people both alluring and unsettling.

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A group of idealists retreats to found a utopian farming community, where high hopes tangle with jealousy and self-deception.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's rich short-story collection gathers dark allegories and moral fables from his years in a Concord parsonage, probing sin, obsession and the shadowed corners of

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A gathering of short stories and sketches, by turns allegorical, eerie and quietly moral.

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The House of the Seven Gables is a polished DotBooks classic novel for readers who want character, atmosphere, and enduring literary appeal in a clean digital edition.

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Edith Wharton's brilliant social novel follows ambition, marriage, money, and status in Gilded Age America and Europe.

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A young woman coming of age in a stifling New England village discovers desire, freedom and its costs over one transformative summer, in a spare and sensuous classic of American re

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Edith Wharton's stark, unforgettable tragedy of thwarted desire.

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Edith Wharton’s great novel of New York society follows Lily Bart through wealth, scrutiny, desire, and social ruin with wit, elegance, and devastating precision.

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A gifted girl from a small Colorado town follows her voice toward the world of grand opera.

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Willa Cather's luminous elegy for the American prairie.

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Willa Cather's luminous prairie novel follows a strong-willed Swedish immigrant woman who tames the wild Nebraska land her father could not, and pays for her success in love and lo

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Stephen Crane turns his own shipwreck off the Florida coast into some of the sharpest short fiction in American literature.

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Stephen Crane's stark, pioneering novella follows a young woman crushed by poverty and hypocrisy in the New York slums, an unflinching landmark of American literary naturalism.

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In his youth on a wilderness lake, the hunter Natty Bumppo faces his first battles and his first hard moral tests.

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On the New York frontier, ageing woodsman Natty Bumppo clashes with the settlers and laws reshaping the wilderness he loves.

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The frontier scout Natty Bumppo guides a party through the Great Lakes country and, unexpectedly, into matters of the heart.

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A rescue expedition into the lost land of Caspak plunges its hero among dinosaurs, primitive tribes and a strange evolutionary mystery.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs’s high-velocity Barsoom adventure delivers rescue, warfare, romance, and classic planetary pulp.

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Earthman John Carter returns to a dying Mars and into the deadly heart of its cruelest religion.

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Orphaned in the African jungle and raised by great apes, a nobleman's son grows into a legend caught between two worlds, in Edgar Rice Burroughs's founding adventure of one of fict

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Jack London’s fierce dystopian-political novel confronts oligarchy, repression, class conflict, and revolutionary memory.

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