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The American
by Henry James
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A naive American finds himself out of his element in Europe....
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Army Life in a Black Regiment
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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A fascinating account by an eyewitness of the formation and heroic deeds of the first black regiment in the civil war....
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Ben Hur
by Lew Wallace
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Ben-Hur could be said to be the first American blockbuster...
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Cape Cod
by Henry David Thoreau
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In the early 1850s, Henry David Thoreau took many meditative walks along the coast....
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Company Aytch
by Sam Watkins
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This book is considered to be the best account of the Civil War ever written from the Confederate point of view.
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The Cossacks
by Leo Tolstoy
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The Cossacks is one of the finest depictions of Cossack society in Russian literature....
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
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This is the original classic story of Bram Stoker's undead monster....
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The Europeans
by Henry James
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In The Europeans, Eugenia, Baroness Munster, is about to be repudiated by her husband, a German prince....
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In the Days of the Comet
by H.G. Wells
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A comet speeds toward earth, a deadly, glowing orb that soon fills the sky and promises doom...
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Jonathan Wild
by Henry Fielding
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The real Jonathan Wild, born about 1682 and executed at Tyburn in 1725, was one of the most notorious criminals of his age....
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness
by Leo Tolstoy
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When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder....
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The Lost Stradivarius
by J. Meade Falkner
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A tale of demonic possession and of the terrible price paid by those who would exalt art at the expense of everything else....
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The Monkey's Paw and Other Stories
by W.W. Jacobs
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This unique collection features some of the best short stories every written....
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Nana
by Emile Zola
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Emile Zola, along with fellow novelists Honore de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert, was an early realist in French literature....
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A Narrative of the Life of Davy Crockett
by Davy Crockett
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Davy Crockett was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee (1786)....
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The Old Curiosity Shop
by Charles Dickens
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The melodramatic saga of the flight of Little Nell and her grandfather captured the public's attention....
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Pere Goriot
by Honore de Balzac
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One of the greatest of French novelists, Balzac, trained as a lawyer, was a great judge of human nature....
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
by William Dean Howells
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Along with Mark Twain, William Dean Howells was one of the great novelists of his time....
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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A blood-red flower is his calling card, daring rescues are his mission. The Scarlet Pimpernel...
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Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
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Elinor Dashwood is a great believer in "sense," while her exuberant younger sister Marianne feels keenly that only "sensibility" serves to guide the heart....
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A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy
by Laurence Sterne
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Sterne is one of the most original and unexpected of writers, and A Sentimental Journey differs from other travel books as greatly as Tristram Shandy differs from other novels....
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The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Dubois
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Du Bois explains the meaning of the emancipation, and its effect, and his views on the roles of the leaders of his race....
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Tales of Space and Time
by H.G. Wells
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Enjoy stories of the past and the future by the author of The Time Machine...
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The Talisman
by Sir Walter Scott
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The Talisman is Sir Walter Scott's tale of the Crusades, a tale of chivalry, of violence, of virtue, romance, and deceit.
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Three by Zola
by Emile Zola
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Emile Zola (1840-1902) was one of the giants of French literature....
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