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410 books here · 1481–2009

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The Romance of the Rose 1493 · Guillaume de Lorris

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Madame Bovary · Gustave Flaubert

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The Histories · P. Cornelius Tacitus

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Orlando · Virginia Woolf

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The Custom of the Country · Edith Wharton

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The First Men in the Moon · H. G. Wells

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Twenty years after · Alexandre Dumas

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Heart of darkness and other tales · Joseph Conrad

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The Red and the Black · Stendhal

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Dangerous Liaisons · Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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Can You Forgive Her? · Anthony Trollope

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Castle Rackrent · Maria Edgeworth

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The Awkward Age · Henry James

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The Antiquary · Sir Walter Scott

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Eugenie Grandet · Honoré de Balzac

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Trilby · George du Maurier

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The Education of Henry Adams 1907 · Henry Adams

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Danton's death · Georg Büchner

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The Wings of the Dove · Henry James

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Robert Browning · Robert Browning

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Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories · Guy de Maupassant

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The confessions of Saint Augustine 1595 · Augustine of Hippo

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White Knights · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The nun · Denis Diderot

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Nana · Émile Zola

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The Eustace Diamonds · Anthony Trollope

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The Italian, or, The confessional of the Black Penitents · Ann Radcliffe

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The Anglo-Saxon World · Kevin Crossley-Holland

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Three Tales 1877 · Gustave Flaubert

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The golden pot and other tales · E. T. A. Hoffmann

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Armadale 1866 · Wilkie Collins

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The Monk 1796 · Matthew Gregory Lewis

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No name 1862 · Wilkie Collins

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The Golden Bough · James George Frazer

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The Diary of a Nobody 1918 · George Grossmith

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The History of Caliph Vathek · William Beckford

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The Last Man · Mary Shelley

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Persuasion · Jane Austen

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Ulysses · James Joyce

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The Beautiful and Damned · F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Pudd'nhead Wilson and other tales · Mark Twain

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Rameau's nephew · Denis Diderot

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Phaedo · Plato

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The Iphigenia In Tauris · Euripides

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The Three Musketeers · Alexandre Dumas

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Basil 1852 · Wilkie Collins

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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories · Лев Толстой

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Tales of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin · Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

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New Grub Street · George Gissing

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Joseph Andrews · Henry Fielding

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Corinne, or, Italy 1800 · Germaine de Staël

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The politics · Aristotle

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Dead Souls · Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ

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The Ladies' Paradise · Émile Zola

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The Old English Baron · Clara Reeve

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The Wild Irish Girl 1806 · Lady Morgan

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The Eclogues 1825 · Publius Vergilius Maro

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Beowulf · Kevin Crossley-Holland

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A simple story 1791 · Mrs. Inchbald

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Daniel Deronda 1876 · George Eliot

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Two On A Tower · Thomas Hardy

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A Pair Of Blue Eyes · Thomas Hardy

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The good soldier · Ford Madox Ford

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The History of Pendennis 1850 · William Makepeace Thackeray

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Sacontala or the Fatal Ring · Kālidāsa

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Hide and Seek 1873 · Wilkie Collins

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Lord Byron · Lord Byron

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Jonathan Swift · Jonathan Swift

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Women in Love · D. H. Lawrence

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Meditations 1635 · Marcus Aurelius

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Sartor Resartus · Thomas Carlyle

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The Duke's Children · Anthony Trollope

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Four Major Plays · Henrik Ibsen

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The Moonstone · Wilkie Collins

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The Oresteia · Aeschylus

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Daphnis and Chloe 1717 · Longus

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Villette · Charlotte Brontë

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Phineas Redux · Anthony Trollope

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Mary Barton · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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In A Glass Darkly 1872 · Sheridan Le Fanu

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The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories 1957 · Stephen Crane

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The Confessions of a Thug · Meadows Taylor

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Thérèse Raquin · Émile Zola

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The kill · Émile Zola

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Under Western Eyes · Joseph Conrad

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The lifted veil 1985 · George Eliot

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The Odd Women · George Gissing

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Tales of the Elders of Ireland · Harry Roe

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Candide and other stories · Voltaire

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She · H. Rider Haggard

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The Steppe · Антон Павлович Чехов

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The Agricola · P. Cornelius Tacitus

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Beyond Good and Evil · Friedrich Nietzsche

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Timaeus and Critias · Plato

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The Poems of Catullus · Gaius Valerius Catullus

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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia · Sir Philip Sidney

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Shirley · Charlotte Brontë

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The Nether World · George Gissing

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Father Goriot · Honoré de Balzac

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East Lynne · Mrs. Henry Wood

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Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter, Peter the Great's Blackamoor · Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

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He Knew He Was Right · Anthony Trollope

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The Brothers Karamazov · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The castle of Otranto · Horace Walpole

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Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works · Francesco Petrarca

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The Russian master and other stories 1947 · Антон Павлович Чехов

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The Origin of Species 1882 · Charles Darwin

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The Black Tulip · Alexandre Dumas

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North and South · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Elective affinities · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Petersburg tales · Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ

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The collected poems 1952 · Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης

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The Georgics 1899 · Publius Vergilius Maro

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Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 1782 · Fanny Burney

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The Return of the Native 1922 · Thomas Hardy

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Ruth · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Bel Ami · Guy de Maupassant

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Rudin · Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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Eugene Onegin · Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

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About Love · Антон Павлович Чехов

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The yellow wall-paper and other stories · Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Thomas Hardy · Thomas Hardy

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The law and the lady 1875 · Wilkie Collins

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The house of mirth · Edith Wharton

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McTeague · Frank Norris

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The Argonautica 1912 · Apollonius Rhodius

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The Confessions 1856 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The Count of Monte Cristo · Alexandre Dumas

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The Years · Virginia Woolf

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The Mysteries of Udolpho 1931 · Ann Radcliffe

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The waves · Virginia Woolf

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Resurrection · Лев Толстой

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The Possessed · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Danton's death · Georg Büchner

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On the Nature of Things · Titus Lucretius Carus

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A vindication of the rights of men · Mary Wollstonecraft

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A Sentimental Education 1941 · Gustave Flaubert

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The Forsyte Saga · John Galsworthy

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Aurora Leigh 1850 · Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Northanger Abbey · Jane Austen

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L'Assommoir · Émile Zola

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The Romance Of The Forest · Ann Radcliffe

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Tales of the Jazz Age · F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Letters on England · Voltaire

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The Communist Manifesto · Karl Marx

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The Rainbow · D. H. Lawrence

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The Symposium · Plato

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The merry wives of Windsor 1602 · William Shakespeare

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The Kalevala · Elias Lönnrot

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The Princess of Cleves 1892 · Madame de La Fayette

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Hester · Margaret Oliphant

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The princess and other stories · Антон Павлович Чехов

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Fuente Ovejuna · Lope de Vega

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Ars Amatoria · Ovid

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War and Peace · Лев Толстой

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Victory · Joseph Conrad

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Caleb Williams 1832 · William Godwin

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Poems · Oscar Wilde

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The attack on the mill and other stories · Émile Zola

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The House of the Dead 1886 · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Chance · Joseph Conrad

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The Tale of a Tub and Other Works 1889 · Jonathan Swift

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The memoirs of Emma Courtney · Mary Hays

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Barnaby Rudge 1800 · Charles Dickens

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The Story of an African Farm · Olive Schreiner

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Old Mortality · Sir Walter Scott

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The Essays · Francis Bacon

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The Voyage Out · Virginia Woolf

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood · Charles Dickens

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The wanderer, or, Female difficulties 1814 · Fanny Burney

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Candide and other stories · Voltaire

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Thus Spake Zarathustra · Friedrich Nietzsche

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Cousin Henry 1879 · Anthony Trollope

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass · Frederick Douglass

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The Poetic Edda · Carolyne Larrington

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Eirik the Red and other Icelandic sagas 1961 · Gwyn Jones

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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories 1976 · Henry James

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Carmen and other stories · Prosper Mérimée

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Riders to the Sea 1911 · J. M. Synge

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Babbitt · Sinclair Lewis

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The Sin of Abbé Mouret · Émile Zola

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Faust · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Satyricon 1711 · Petronius

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La bête humaine 1947 · Émile Zola

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Germinal · Émile Zola

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The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes · Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Orlando Furioso 1781 · Lodovico Ariosto

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Exemplary stories · Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Doctor Thorne · Anthony Trollope

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The confusions of young Torless · Robert Musil

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The Mabinogion · Sioned Davies

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Hecuba · Euripides

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East Lynne · Mrs. Henry Wood

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Sylvia's Lovers · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Evelina 1778 · Fanny Burney

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Four comedies · Titus Maccius Plautus

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The doctor's wife 1864 · Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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The Belly of Paris · Émile Zola

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Orley Farm · Anthony Trollope

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Huntingtower · John Buchan

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Maria · Mary Wollstonecraft

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Between the acts · Virginia Woolf

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News from Nowhere · William Morris

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Notes from the Underground and The Gambler · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The metamorphosis and other stories · Franz Kafka

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Ward number six and other stories · Антон Павлович Чехов

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Life's little ironies · Thomas Hardy

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The Woman in White · Wilkie Collins

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Jacques the fatalist and his master · Denis Diderot

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Wieland 1798 · Charles Brockden Brown

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The Metamorphoses · Ovid

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A Sicilian Romance · Ann Radcliffe

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Romola 1858 · George Eliot

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First love, and other stories · Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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Sybil, or the Two Nations · Benjamin Disraeli

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Theaetetus · Plato

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The Bostonians · Henry James

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The Nature of the Gods · Cicero

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The Medea · Euripides

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Carmen and Other Stories · Prosper Mérimée

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Ten Years Later 1857 · Alexandre Dumas

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The Golden Bowl · Henry James

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Poor Miss Finch 1872 · Wilkie Collins

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Phineas Finn 1868 · Anthony Trollope

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Pharsalia · Lucan

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

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Valperga · Mary Shelley

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The Last Chronicle of Barset · Anthony Trollope

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John Ruskin · John Ruskin

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The white devil 1830 · John Webster

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The Adventures of Roderick Random · Tobias Smollett

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The Way We Live Now · Anthony Trollope

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Belinda · Maria Edgeworth

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The Crimes of Love · Marquis de Sade

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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists · Robert Tressell

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The man of feeling 1771 · Henry Mackenzie

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Bleak House · Charles Dickens

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Rachel Ray · Anthony Trollope

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The Castle · Franz Kafka

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Plain Tales from the Hills 1800 · Rudyard Kipling

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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1849 · Washington Irving

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The Rights of Man · Thomas Paine

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Billy Budd, Sailor · Herman Melville

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Jane Eyre · Charlotte Brontë

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Selected Tales · Edgar Allan Poe

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Dr. Wortle's school · Anthony Trollope

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Robinson Crusoe · Daniel Defoe

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Emma · Jane Austen

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A Room Of One's Own · Virginia Woolf

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The Dark Side · Guy de Maupassant

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The Wind in the Willows · Kenneth Grahame

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Wuthering Heights · Emily Brontë

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The Consolation of Philosophy 1483 · Boethius

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The American · Henry James

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The Decameron · Giovanni Boccaccio

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The Marble Faun 1888 · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A Tale of Two Cities · Charles Dickens

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The Pioneers · James Fenimore Cooper

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What Maisie Knew · Henry James

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Lord Jim · Joseph Conrad

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Miss Julie · August Strindberg

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Washington Square · Henry James

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My Antonia · Willa Cather

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The Portrait of a Lady · Henry James

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Treasure Island · Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Riddle of the Sands · Erskine Childers

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The Aeneid 1874 · Publius Vergilius Maro

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The Prairie · James Fenimore Cooper

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Nostromo · Joseph Conrad

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Greenmantle · John Buchan

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Fathers and Sons · Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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The Scarlet Letter · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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To the Lighthouse · Virginia Woolf

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The Lost World · Arthur Conan Doyle

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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking-Glass · Lewis Carroll

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · Mark Twain

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Julius Caesar 1684 · William Shakespeare

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David Copperfield · Charles Dickens

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Anna Karenina · Лев Толстой

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The Canterbury Tales · Geoffrey Chaucer

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Pamela 1816 · Samuel Richardson

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The Heart of Mid-lothian · Sir Walter Scott

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Adolphe and the Red Notebook · Benjamin Constant

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Riders of the Purple Sage · Zane Grey

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Under the Greenwood Tree 1872 · Thomas Hardy

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Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde

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Love's labour's lost 1631 · William Shakespeare

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Pride and Prejudice · Jane Austen

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Moby Dick · Herman Melville

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The mayor of Casterbridge · Thomas Hardy

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Gulliver's Travels · Jonathan Swift

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Don Quixote · Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Nicholas Nickleby 1843 · Charles Dickens

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Plutarch's Lives · Plutarch

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Sherlock Holmes · Arthur Conan Doyle

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Lorna Doone · R. D. Blackmore

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Frankenstein · Mary Shelley

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Peer Gynt · Henrik Ibsen

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The Confidence-Man · Herman Melville

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The Vicar of Wakefield 1783 · Oliver Goldsmith

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Le morte d'Arthur · Thomas Malory

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Desperate Remedies · Thomas Hardy

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The Thirty-Nine Steps · John Buchan

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Green Mansions · W. H. Hudson

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John Donne · John Donne

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Antony and Cleopatra 1734 · William Shakespeare

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Pierre And Jean · Guy de Maupassant

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Mrs Dalloway · Virginia Woolf

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall · Anne Brontë

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O Pioneers! · Willa Cather

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A Journey to the Center of the Earth · Jules Verne

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Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton

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The House of the Seven Gables · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Sister Carrie 1900 · Theodore Dreiser

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Dracula · Bram Stoker

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The Flowers of Evil · Charles Baudelaire

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Around the World in Eighty Days · Jules Verne

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The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner · James Hogg

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Flush · Virginia Woolf

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Ben Hur 1900 · Lew Wallace

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An Outcast of the Islands · Joseph Conrad

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The Secret Agent · Joseph Conrad

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The Blithedale Romance · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Fanny Hill · John Cleland

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The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

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The Prisoner of Zenda 1894 · Anthony Hope

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Oscar Wilde · Oscar Wilde

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Pinocchio 1904 · Carlo Collodi

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Moll Flanders · Daniel Defoe

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Against the Grain · Joris-Karl Huysmans

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Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Barchester Towers · Anthony Trollope

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All's well that ends well 1734 · William Shakespeare

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Esther Waters 1894 · George Moore

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Mansfield Park · Jane Austen

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Jude the Obscure · Thomas Hardy

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Uncle Tom's Cabin · Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Little Dorrit · Charles Dickens

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Cyrano de Bergerac · Edmond Rostand

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The Poetical Works of John Milton · John Milton

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The last of the Mohicans · James Fenimore Cooper

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Walden · Henry David Thoreau

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The idiot · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Our Mutual Friend 1868 · Charles Dickens

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This Side of Paradise · F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Paradise Lost · John Milton

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Agnes Grey · Anne Brontë

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The Europeans · Henry James

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Oliver Twist 1800 · Charles Dickens

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The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and related tales · Edgar Allan Poe

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Great Expectations · Charles Dickens

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Rob Roy · Sir Walter Scott

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles 1920 · Thomas Hardy

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Man and wife 1870 · Wilkie Collins

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The secret garden · Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Hard times 1891 · Charles Dickens

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Silas Marner · George Eliot

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The Warden · Anthony Trollope

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Romeo and Juliet · William Shakespeare

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The Odyssey · Όμηρος

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The Shadow Line · Joseph Conrad

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Hamlet · William Shakespeare

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The Pickwick Papers 1847 · Charles Dickens

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Vanity Fair 1848 · William Makepeace Thackeray

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The Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli

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Cranford · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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

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Ivanhoe · Sir Walter Scott

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Dubliners · James Joyce

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Henry V 1900 · William Shakespeare

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Tales of Mystery and Imagination · Edgar Allan Poe

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Tales of mystery and imagination · Edgar Allan Poe

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The Divine Comedy · Dante Alighieri

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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia 1833 · Samuel Johnson

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The Age of Innocence · Edith Wharton

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Flatland · Edwin Abbott Abbott

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De Bello Gallico And Other Commentaries 1853 · Gaius Julius Caesar

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Little Women · Louisa May Alcott

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Roxana · Daniel Defoe

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The Lusíads · Luís de Camões

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Peter Pan · J. M. Barrie

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The Lady of the Camellias · Alexandre Dumas fils

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Barry Lyndon 1853 · William Makepeace Thackeray

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Much ado about nothing 1734 · William Shakespeare

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The Trial · Franz Kafka

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The Iliad · Όμηρος

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The mill on the floss 1800 · George Eliot

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · Mark Twain

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The Song of the Lark 1915 · Willa Cather

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Indiana · George Sand

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Antigone · Sophocles

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Livy 1481 · Titus Livius

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The Virginian · Owen Wister

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The turn of the screw · Henry James

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

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The Reef · Edith Wharton

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The Odes And Carmen Saeculare of Horace · Horace

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The tempest · William Shakespeare

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Utopia · Thomas More

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Waverley · Sir Walter Scott

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The Old Curiosity Shop · Charles Dickens

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Sons and Lovers · D. H. Lawrence

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A Journal of the Plague Year · Daniel Defoe

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La Vita Nuova 1899 · Dante Alighieri

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The jungle · Upton Sinclair

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Kim · Rudyard Kipling

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Middlemarch · George Eliot

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King Solomon's mines · H. Rider Haggard