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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is the best-known short story by Ambrose Bierce. The story was fi..
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Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Andersen’s Fairy Tales is a collection of eighteen stories that includes such classics as "The Littl..
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Anthem
Anthem is set in a dystopian future Dark Age in which totalitarianism has extinguished individuality..
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Antigone
Antigone is the third and last of Sophocles’ Theban plays based on the legend of Oedipus and Jocasta..
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel that chronicles the attempt of an Engli..
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Arrowsmith
Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis, is the story of Martin Arrowsmith, a bright and ambitious young man f..
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Aspects of the Novel
"Aspects of the Novel" by E. M. Forster is a seminal work of literary criticism that delves into the..
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Babbitt
There are brand names and titles that enter the language because of their ability to define an entit..
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
In an October 1939 radio broadcast Winston Churchill described his difficulty in understanding the a..
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ was published in 1880 and became the best-selling American novel of al..
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Beowulf
Beowulf is the title of the oldest surviving epic poem of Old English and the first to be written in..
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Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is the second of four seminal late perio..
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Bhagavad-Gita
The Bhagavad-Gita is the sixth book of the Mahabharata and a core book in Hindu scripture. Written s..
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Billy Budd, Sailor
In 1886, after writing poetry exclusively for 30 years, Herman Melville began work on a story about ..
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Boule de Suif
“Boule de Suif” is one of the first short stories by Guy de Maupassant and possibly the most famous...
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Candide, or the Optimism
Is this the best of all possible worlds? The title character in Voltaire’s classic novel, Candide, d..
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Carmilla
The Gothic novella Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the earliest works of vampire fiction a..
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Common Sense
Common Sense articulated the argument for seeking independence from Britain when the matter was the ..
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Common Sense and the American Crisis
This disc contains the two pamphlets Paine wrote that inspired the American Revolution: Common Sense..
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account by Thomas de Quincey of his add..
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Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov, the name of the main character in Crime and Punishment, is derived from the Russian “ra..
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Cyrano de Bergerac
The title character of Cyrano de Bergerac is a fictionalization of the basic facts life of a real pe..
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Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos is a masterpiece of 18th century literature. ..
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David Copperfield
David Copperfield was Dickens’s eighth novel, published in 1850, having been serialized two years pr..
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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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