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The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
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Next to The Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress has probably been more widely read than any other book in the English language, and rightfully so....
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
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Average Rating:   (3.0 Stars)
Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up his 2 children...
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The Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle
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In the Nichomachean Ethics— so called after their first editor, Aristotle’s son Nicomachus—Aristotle sets out to discover the good life for man, the life of happiness.
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The Prophet and Other Stories
by Kahlil Gibran
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This collection includes The Prophet, The Forerunner, and The Madman. Gibran’s mysticism, evident here as in all his works, reveals an intense preoccupation with the spiritual and visionary.
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
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Great Expectations traces the development of Philip Pirrip, called Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations to a man of depth and character.
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Tales of the Alhambra
by Washington Irving
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Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
This travelogue of Spain’s Granada and the Alhambra depicts secret chambers, desperate battles, imprisoned princesses, palace ghosts, and fragrant gardens…
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The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Machiavelli lived in Renaissance Italy in a time marked by violent hatred between the Italian city-states.
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The War Of The Worlds
by H.G. Wells
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Average Rating:  (4.5 Stars)
This spellbinding tale describes the Martian invasion of earth.
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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
by Thomas De Quincey
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey’s best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction, in prose that is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish.
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Treasure Island is a story of good and evil. From the moment narrator Jim Hawkins meets the blind pirate Pew until the battle for hidden treasure on a tropical island…
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
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Perhaps no other work of literature has aroused so much admiration in so many countries and so many readers as The Divine Comedy.
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The Story Of My Life
by Helen Keller
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A serious illness destroyed Helen Keller’s sight and hearing at the age of two. At seven, she was helped by Anne Sullivan, her beloved teacher and friend.
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The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
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This famous novel deals with the early frontier period of American history and is set in 1757 during the Seven Years War between the French and the British. Hawkeye and his friends...
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The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
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The Time Traveller first steps out of his magnificent time transport machine in the year 802,700! He finds the Earth populated by a race of slender pacifists...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
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Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
The characters are based on Twain’s schoolmates and the setting on Hannibal, Missouri, where he grew up.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
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Huck Finn is a homeless rebel who loves freedom more than respectability.
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Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
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The book begins with the restless longings of young Robinson Crusoe for travel and adventure and climaxes with the ultimate fusion of man’s resourcefulness with the agents of nature.
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
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This captivating tale, set in London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution, uses the contrasts between the cities’ “beliefs” to reveal the central choice confronting all of society: should a person work to change society or should the revolution occur within his heart?
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Seven Classic Plays
by Various Artists
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Here in one volume are seven great plays: Medea, The Tempest, The Imaginary Invalid, Camille, An Enemy of the People, Arms and the Man, and Uncle Vany.
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Therese Raquin
by Emile Zola
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Average Rating: (2.5 Stars)
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband’s earthy friend, Laurent. But their passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever.
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The Arabian Nights
by Various Authors
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Here is a selection of some of the best-known and best-loved tales of The Arabian Nights, including “Sinbad,” “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” “Aladdin,” “The Talking Bird,” and “The Fisherman and the Genie.”
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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In this classic, the narrator tells of making the usual April pilgrimage to Becket’s shrine at Canterbury with thirty others.
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Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence
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Lawrence explores love, sex, passion, and marriage through the eyes of two sisters....
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Regency Etiquette
by A Lady of Distinction
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Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
In the flowery language of its era, this book details English customs and manners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries…
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