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Democracy in America
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to the Unit..
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Democracy: An American Novel
Democracy: An American Novel is one of the first novels about political power and how to get it, how..
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Diary of a Madman
Diary of a Madman (1835) is a farcical short story that ranks with “The Overcoat” and “The Nose” as..
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Don Quixote, the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of LaMancha, is a Spanish novel by Mig..
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth in the Oz series of books written by L. Frank Baum. Illus..
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Dracula
Our culture is fascinated by zombies; always has been. Vampire novels, films and television shows ab..
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Elmer Gantry
"Elmer Gantry" explores the life of its charismatic and opportunistic protagonist, Elmer Gantry. Set..
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Emerson Essays: Nature, The First Series, The Second Series
This volume aggregates the essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson first collected in Nature (1837), Essays: T..
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Emma
Published in three volumes in 1815, Emma was the second to last of Jane Austen’s novels, and treats ..
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Eudemian Ethics
Aristotle coined the term “ethics” to define a field of study first undertaken by Socrates and Plato..
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Far From The Madding Crowd
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1874, centers on its hero..
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Faust
The theme of making a deal with the devil is one of the most enduring in all art forms. Most treatme..
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Flowers of Evil
The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire influential o..
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the wife of Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, is the author of the t..
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a comic novel that follows the escapades and dalliances of a young blond..
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations was Dickens’s thirteenth and penultimate novel, written when he was at the height..
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
Grimm’s Fairy Tales is a collection of German fairy tales first published by brothers Jacob and Wilh..
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Gulliver's Travels
George Orwell called Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift one of the six essential works in all of l..
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Hard Times
Hard Times, Charles Dickens’s tenth novel, was published in 1854 after having been serialized that s..
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Heart of Darkness
Aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, Marlow, the narrator of Heart of Darkness, tells a story..
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His Last Bow
His Last Bow is the fourth collection of stories featuring the master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, publis..
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How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York by Jacob Riis was a ground-breakin..
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Howards End
Howards End intertwines the lives of three families in early 20th century England. The idealistic an..
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In the Penal Colony
“In the Penal Colony” centers on the use of an unusual instrument of punishment invented ..
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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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