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139 books here · 1483–2008

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As I Lay Dying · William Faulkner

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Faust · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Oroonoko · Aphra Behn

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The Return of the Native 1922 · Thomas Hardy

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The good soldier · Ford Madox Ford

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Chekhov · Антон Павлович Чехов

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Evelina 1778 · Fanny Burney

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Notes from the underground · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins · Mark Twain

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The Arabian Nights · Scheherazade

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Aurora Leigh 1850 · Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman · Laurence Sterne

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Dead Souls · Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ

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Castle Rackrent · Maria Edgeworth

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Anton Chekhov's short stories · Антон Павлович Чехов

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Irish tracts, 1720-1723 and sermons · Jonathan Swift

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The book of the courtier 1724 · Conte Baldassarre Castiglione

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The Communist Manifesto · Karl Marx

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Mary Barton · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass · Frederick Douglass

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The Princess of Cleves 1892 · Madame de La Fayette

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The awakening · Kate Chopin

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On Liberty · John Stuart Mill

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McTeague · Frank Norris

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The Wings of the Dove · Henry James

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Three Lives · Gertrude Stein

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Passing 1929 · Nella Larsen

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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 1890 · Henry Fielding

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The Metamorphoses · Ovid

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The Waste Land · T. S. Eliot

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The egoist · George Meredith

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North and South · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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A Clockwork Orange · Anthony Burgess

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Wieland 1798 · Charles Brockden Brown

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The Brothers Karamazov · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Bleak House · Charles Dickens

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The Red and the Black · Stendhal

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The house of mirth · Edith Wharton

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The Epic of Gilgamesh · Benjamin R. Foster

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The Rise of Silas Lapham · William Dean Howells

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Robert Browning · Robert Browning

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Tartuffe · Molière

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The Ambassadors · Henry James

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Charlotte Temple 1794 · Mrs. Susanna (Haswell) Rowson

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Beowulf · E. Talbot Donaldson

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The Histories · Ἡρόδοτος

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Tolstoy's Short Fiction · Лев Толстой

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl · Harriet A. Jacobs

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Father Goriot · Honoré de Balzac

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Oedipus the King · Sophocles

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Beowulf · E. Talbot Donaldson

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Revelations of Divine Love · Julian of Norwich

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Heart of darkness · Joseph Conrad

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The Marrow of Tradition · Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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The Portrait of a Lady · Henry James

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Julius Caesar 1684 · William Shakespeare

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The Taming of the Shrew 1671 · William Shakespeare

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Jane Eyre · Charlotte Brontë

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Measure for measure · William Shakespeare

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1875 · Robert Louis Stevenson

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles 1920 · Thomas Hardy

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John Donne · John Donne

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The American · Henry James

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court · Mark Twain

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The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · Benjamin Franklin

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Collected Works of Lewis Carroll · Lewis Carroll

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The Canterbury Tales · Geoffrey Chaucer

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Robinson Crusoe · Daniel Defoe

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The Inferno · Dante Alighieri

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Sense and sensibility · Jane Austen

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The time machine · H. G. Wells

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · Mark Twain

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David Copperfield · Charles Dickens

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Emma · Jane Austen

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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town · Stephen Leacock

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Poems · Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The red badge of courage 1855 · Stephen Crane

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Middlemarch · George Eliot

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Maggie · Stephen Crane

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Uncle Tom's Cabin · Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The Consolation of Philosophy 1483 · Boethius

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Paradise Lost · John Milton

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Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde

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O Pioneers! · Willa Cather

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · Mark Twain

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Things Fall Apart · Chinua Achebe

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Sister Carrie 1900 · Theodore Dreiser

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Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton

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Richard III 1597 · William Shakespeare

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Moby Dick · Herman Melville

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Pride and prejudice · Jane Austen

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Moll Flanders · Daniel Defoe

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Gulliver's Travels · Jonathan Swift

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Metamorphosis · Franz Kafka

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The mill on the floss 1800 · George Eliot

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Dubliners · James Joyce

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Jude the Obscure · Thomas Hardy

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Candide · Voltaire

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Anna Karenina · Лев Толстой

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Dracula · Bram Stoker

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Anne of Green Gables · Lucy Maud Montgomery

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The Sound and the Fury · William Faulkner

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Northanger Abbey · Jane Austen

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The Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli

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The Scarlet Letter · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Jacob's Room · Virginia Woolf

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The mayor of Casterbridge · Thomas Hardy

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man · James Joyce

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Othello · William Shakespeare

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Fathers and Sons · Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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Lord Jim · Joseph Conrad

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Utopia · Thomas More

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The Age of Innocence · Edith Wharton

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Howards End · E. M. Forster

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The turn of the screw · Henry James

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Wuthering Heights · Emily Brontë

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Hard times 1891 · Charles Dickens

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The Confidence-Man · Herman Melville

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As You Like It 1734 · William Shakespeare

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Mansfield Park · Jane Austen

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The Odyssey · Όμηρος

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The Blithedale Romance · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Le morte d'Arthur · Thomas Malory

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The tempest · William Shakespeare

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Vanity Fair 1848 · William Makepeace Thackeray

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The House of the Seven Gables · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A Journal of the Plague Year · Daniel Defoe

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The secret garden · Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Hamlet · William Shakespeare

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The Decameron · Giovanni Boccaccio

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The jungle · Upton Sinclair

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Don Quixote · Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Great Expectations · Charles Dickens

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Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Antony and Cleopatra 1734 · William Shakespeare

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Kim 1901 · Rudyard Kipling

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The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

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Far from the Madding Crowd · Thomas Hardy