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The Prophet
The Prophet is a highly original book of 26 fables written in prose poetry by Lebanese-American auth..
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The Republic of Plato
The Republic of Plato is the greatest and best known of Plato’s works and possibly the most influent..
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The Return of the Native
The Return of the Native was Thomas Hardy’s sixth novel. It was serialized in Belgravia magazi..
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Water, water, every where / Nor any drop to drink. We all know these lines. And we are all fa..
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The Road to Oz
The Road to Oz is the fifth of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz books. Published in 1909, it recount..
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title of a translation by Englishman Edward FitzGerald of poems ..
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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered his finest novel. Set in Puritan Boston from..
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The School for Wives
Arnolphe, the protagonist of The School for Wives, isso intimidated by women that he resolves to rai..
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The Secret of Father Brown
The Secret of Father Brown is the fourth collection of short stories by G. K. Chesterton featuring t..
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The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the Four is the second of four full-length novels featuring the brilliant Sherlock Holme..
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The Silence Dogood Letters
During his teenage years Benjamin Franklin worked as an apprentice printer at his older brother’s pr..
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The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate..." These lines f..
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is book everyone in America should read, a fundamental w..
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
It’s rare that a book’s title becomes a staple of popular usage in the way that the phrase “Jekyll a..
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The Subjection of Women
In his essay “On the Subjection of Women” John Stuart Mill wrote at length about the moral, legal an..
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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638 - 1870
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade is a fundamental work of African-American history that is..
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The Symposium
The Symposium is one of Plato’s best-known works, written in 385 BCE or later, and appreciated for b..
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The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji, also known as Genji Monogatori, is a classic and foundational work of Japan..
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The Tao Te Ching, or, The Tao and its Characteristics
The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese classic text written by the sage Lao Tzu in the sixth century..
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The Tempest
Neither tragedy nor comedy, but a romance, The Tempest (1610-11) is believed to be the last play wri..
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic political thriller and one of the earliest examples of the “man-o..
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The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers, one of the most popular historical romances ever written, recounts the adventu..
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually referred to as Hamlet, is a tragedy by Willi..
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The Tragedy of King Lear
The Tragedy of King Lear depicts the descent of the title character into madness after retiring from..
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows began as a series of bedtime stories author Kenneth Grahame invented for his..
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
The image is popular and general: A young man sits under an apple tree. An apple falls, strikes him ..
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A Doll's House
A Doll’s House aroused a great deal of controversy when it premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenha..
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An Enemy of the People
The term “enemy of the people” has entered our modern lexicon, thanks to the unprecedented attacks o..
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The Metamorphoses defies easy classification: it is a Latin narrative poem written in an epic style ..
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A Shropshire Lad
The sixty-three short poems that constitute A Shropshire Lad conjure a pastoral countryside that is ..
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Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887
During the economic and social upheaval of the 1870’s and 1880’s the notion of a better social order..
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Robert Frost: Early Poems
Robert Frost: Early Poems combines the first two of Robert Frost’s published volumes. A Boy’s Will i..
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A Boy's Will
A Boy’s Will is the first book of poems by Frost, published in 1913 when he was in his late thirties..
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North of Boston
North of Boston was Frost’s second book, a collection of seventeen poems published in 1914. It ..
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost first published in 1923 by Henry Holt. It con..
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The Kama Sutra
The Kama Sutra is an ancient Hindu text considered by many as the first and perhaps still the best w..
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The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nafzaoui is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic l..
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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds,also known as Bird Parliament or Speech of the Birds, is a masterpiece o..
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Meditations on First Philosophy
The Meditations on First Philosophy, which carries the subtitle “In which the existence of God and t..
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title of a translation by Englishman Edward FitzGerald of poems ..
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