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Fiction
The Missing Will
Agatha Christie's short case sends Hercule Poirot after a dead man's hidden testament, a puzzle set as a deliberate test of wits, solved by the little Belgian's endlessly methodica
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Essays
The Communist Manifesto
The short, incendiary pamphlet by Marx and Engels that reframed history as a struggle between classes.
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Adventure
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey
Ingersoll Lockwood's curious Victorian fantasy.
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Fiction
The Gilded Age
Twain and Warner’s satirical novel exposes speculation, corruption, boosterism, and political performance in post–Civil War America.
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Classics
Apology
Plato’s compact defense of Socrates joins courtroom speech to enduring questions about philosophy and conscience.
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Biography & Memoir
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Res
Solomon Northup's searing 1853 memoir: a free Black man from New York, lured south and kidnapped into slavery in Louisiana, endures twelve years in bondage before his desperate str
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History
Comic History of the United States
Bill Nye’s illustrated satirical history turns major episodes of the American past into brisk, deadpan comic sketches.
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History
A History of Elizabethan Literature
George Saintsbury's sweeping survey of the golden age of English writing, from its poets and dramatists to its prose.
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Non-fiction
A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
Catharine Esther Beecher’s influential nineteenth-century manual blends household management, health guidance, moral instruction, and practical advice for domestic life and educati
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Biography & Memoir
A Little English Gallery
Louise Imogen Guiney's A Little English Gallery gathers graceful literary portraits of Lady Danvers, Henry Vaughan, George Farquhar, Beauclerk and Langton, and William Hazlitt.
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Non-fiction
All about coffee
William H.
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Classics
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelais's riotous Renaissance saga of two giants — a torrent of comedy, satire, learning and appetite that celebrates the body, the mind and the freedom of laughter.
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Fiction
Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter
A Victorian-American tale of deception and detection, in which a young woman betrayed by those she trusted is drawn into a world of disguise, pursuit and hard-won justice.
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Classics
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole's foundational gothic novel, where a doomed castle, a monstrous prophecy, and supernatural terror announce a whole new genre.
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Fiction
The secret of Father Brown
A later collection of Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries, framed by the priest's own account of his method.
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Classics
Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope's beloved comedy of clerical politics, where a new bishop, his formidable wife, and an oily chaplain upend the quiet cathedral town of Barchester.
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Biography & Memoir
A Daughter of the Middle Border
Hamlin Garland's Pulitzer-winning memoir of prairie life, family, and hard-won artistic ambition, a warm, clear-eyed portrait of the American Midwest and the people who shaped it.
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Essays
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson's founding essay of American Transcendentalism, arguing that the natural world is the visible face of spirit.
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Fiction
Desperate Remedies
Thomas Hardy’s first published novel blends romance, secrecy, mistaken motives, and melodramatic danger into a fast-moving story of ambition and manipulation.
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Art & Design
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
James Fergusson's monumental survey of the architecture of India and the East, tracing temples, monuments, and building traditions across centuries.
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Children
Rainbow Valley
L.
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Biography & Memoir
Richard the Lion Heart
A retelling of the crusading English king, his wars in the Holy Land and his legend of chivalry, aimed at readers who love medieval history and heroic biography.
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Biography & Memoir
Up from Slavery
Booker T.
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Fiction
A Woman at Bay
A fast-paced Nick Carter detective adventure from the great age of the American dime novel, pitting the famous sleuth against a formidable and dangerous woman.
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History
A Class-Book of New Testament History
A Victorian teaching text by G.
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Fiction
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
A collection of P.
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Crime
Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel
Dorothy L.
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Classics
The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems
Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims ride toward Canterbury, swapping stories that argue, tease and confess.
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Children
Russian Fairy Tales
A vivid collection of Russian folk tales full of shape-shifting magic, dangerous bargains, brave children, and the strange logic of the old wonder tale.
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Children
Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
A collection of tales gathered from the storytelling traditions of the East, bringing together stories of adventure, wisdom, and wonder.
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History
On War
On War by Carl von Clausewitz is the monumental modern classic on strategy, uncertainty, politics, friction, and the enduring logic of armed conflict.
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Classics
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
The full range of Maupassant's short fiction, from Norman farmhouses to Parisian salons.
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Essays
Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
Francis Bacon's celebrated Essays paired with his Wisdom of the Ancients, gathering some of the shrewdest prose in English.
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Classics
Notre-Dame de Paris
Victor Hugo's sweeping medieval romance, gathered around the great cathedral of Paris and the souls whose fates are bound to it.
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Essays
Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures delivered at Columbia University
Edward MacDowell's lectures on music, delivered at Columbia University, in which the celebrated American composer reflects on the history and meaning of his art with a practitioner
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Classics
Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a sophisticated classic about desire, marriage, social performance, and the hidden costs of respectability in Gilded Age New York.
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History
A History of Roman Classical Literature
A comprehensive survey of the great writers of ancient Rome, from Plautus and Cicero to Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, tracing the rise and flowering of Latin literature.
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Non-fiction
An Elementary Study of Chemistry
A foundational chemistry textbook by William McPherson and William Edwards Henderson, introducing the elements, reactions, and laws of the science to beginning students.
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Adventure
A Victor of Salamis
William Stearns Davis's rousing historical novel of ancient Greece, set amid the Persian Wars and the great sea battle of Salamis, where courage and love are tested against the fat
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Humor
Following the Equator
Mark Twain circles the globe on a lecture tour, notebook in hand, turning ocean crossings, colonial outposts and human folly into wry, watchful travel writing edged with anger.
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History
Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
Emile Cammaerts's sweeping history of Belgium, tracing the fortunes of a small but pivotal European land from ancient times to the modern era.
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Drama
Blue-grass and Broadway
A novel by Maria Thompson Daviess set against the contrast of country and city life, its title playing rural Kentucky against the bright lights of the stage.
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Classics
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf's luminous novel follows a single London day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, weaving memory, consciousness, and the shadow of the Great War.
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Crime
The Big Four
Hercule Poirot faces not a single killer but a global criminal conspiracy of four masterminds bent on world domination, in Agatha Christie's most unusual and action-packed Poirot a
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Biography & Memoir
Fifty Years In The Northwest
William H.
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Crime
The Mystery of the Blue Train
A wealthy heiress is found murdered aboard the luxury train to the Riviera, her famous rubies gone, and Hercule Poirot, a fellow passenger, takes up a case tangled in money, love a
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Essays
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A gathering of Emerson's essays, the works that carried American Transcendentalism to the world.
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Classics
Phaedo
Plato's account of Socrates' final hours, spent not in fear but in conversation about the soul and its fate.
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