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Fiction

The Missing Will

by Agatha Christie

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

by Marx and Engels

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

by Ingersoll Lockwood

Ingersoll Lockwood's curious Victorian fantasy.

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Fiction

The Gilded Age

by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

Twain and Warner’s satirical novel exposes speculation, corruption, boosterism, and political performance in post–Civil War America.

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Classics

Apology

by Plato

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

by Solomon Northup

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

by Bill Nye

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

by George Saintsbury

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

by Catharine Esther Beecher

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

by Louise Imogen Guiney

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

by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

William H.

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Classics

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by Francois Rabelais

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

by Lawrence L. Lynch

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

by Horace Walpole

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

by G. K. Chesterton

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

by Trollope, Anthony

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

by Hamlin Garland

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

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

by Thomas Hardy

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

by James Fergusson

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

by L. M. Montgomery

L.

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Biography & Memoir

Richard the Lion Heart

by Kate Norgate

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

by Booker T. Washington

Booker T.

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Fiction

A Woman at Bay

by Carter, Nicholas (House name)

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

by G. F. Maclear

A Victorian teaching text by G.

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Fiction

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

by P. G. Wodehouse

A collection of P.

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Crime

Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

by Dorothy L. Sayers

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

by Various

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

by Various

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

by Carl von Clausewitz

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

by 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

by Francis Bacon

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

by Victor Hugo

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

by Edward MacDowell

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

by Edith Wharton

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

by Robert William Browne

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

by McPherson, William; Henderson, William Edwards

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

by William Stearns Davis

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

by Mark Twain

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

by Emile Cammaerts

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

by Maria Thompson Daviess

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

by Virginia Woolf

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

by Agatha Christie

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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Crime

The Mystery of the Blue Train

by Agatha Christie

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

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

by Plato

Plato's account of Socrates' final hours, spent not in fear but in conversation about the soul and its fate.

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