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37 books here · 1781–2007

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The Persian letters · Charles-Louis de Secondat baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu

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On the Nature of Things · Titus Lucretius Carus

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The Downfall · Émile Zola

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The Orations Of Marcus Tullius Cicero · Cicero

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The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes · Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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The Ambassadors · Henry James

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Bouvard and Pecuchet · Gustave Flaubert

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Hindu Myths 1975 · Anonymous

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The pot of gold · Titus Maccius Plautus

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The Histories · P. Cornelius Tacitus

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The Marquise of O-- 1960 · Heinrich von Kleist

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Nana · Émile Zola

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The romance of Tristran 1939 · Béroul

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The Odes of Horace · Horace

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The Conference of the Birds 1933 · Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār

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The fire of love · Richard Rolle of Hampole

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A Celtic Miscellany 1951 · Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone

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The betrothed · Alessandro Manzoni

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The Eclogues 1825 · Publius Vergilius Maro

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Anabasis 1859 · Xenophon

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The Black Sheep · Honoré de Balzac

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Zadig · Voltaire

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Egil's saga · Snorri Sturluson

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Exemplary stories · Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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A Sportsman's Sketches · Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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On the Eve · Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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Effi Briest · Theodor Fontane

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Orlando Furioso 1781 · Lodovico Ariosto

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The Divine Comedy · Dante Alighieri

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The Jewish War · Flavius Josephus

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The History of the Peloponnesian War · Thucydides

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The Buccaneers of America · A. O. (Alexandre Olivier) Exquemelin

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La Vita Nuova 1899 · Dante Alighieri

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The Paradise · Dante Alighieri

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The Lusíads · Luís de Camões

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Salammbo · Gustave Flaubert

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The Dark Side · Guy de Maupassant