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21 books here · 1483–2006

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Philosophical dictionary · Voltaire

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The Torrents of Spring · Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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Tragic Sense of Life · Miguel de Unamuno

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On the Nature of Things · Titus Lucretius Carus

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The Forsyte Saga · John Galsworthy

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Timaeus and Critias · Plato

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Twenty years after · Alexandre Dumas

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Parnassus on Wheels · Christopher Morley

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The Gambler · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Haunted Bookshop · Christopher Morley

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Around the World in Eighty Days · Jules Verne

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The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · Benjamin Franklin

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The Circular Staircase 1908 · Mary Roberts Rinehart

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The American · Henry James

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The Thirty-Nine Steps · John Buchan

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The Old Curiosity Shop · Charles Dickens

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The Return of the Soldier · Rebecca West

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Kidnapped · Robert Louis Stevenson

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A Journal of the Plague Year · Daniel Defoe

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The Consolation of Philosophy 1483 · Boethius

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The Secret Agent · Joseph Conrad