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344 books here · 1493–2009

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Tales of mystery and imagination · Edgar Allan Poe

The spirit of the age 1825 · William Hazlitt

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The Vicar of Bullhampton · Anthony Trollope

298

Doctor Thorne · Anthony Trollope

423

Orley Farm · Anthony Trollope

447

Phineas Finn 1868 · Anthony Trollope

450

Phineas Redux · Anthony Trollope

462

The Duke's Children · Anthony Trollope

468

Can You Forgive Her? · Anthony Trollope

513

Robert Browning · Robert Browning

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Candide and other stories · Voltaire

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Harry Heathcote of Gangoil · Anthony Trollope

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McTeague · Frank Norris

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The Three Clerks · Anthony Trollope

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Almayer's Folly · Joseph Conrad

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Caleb Williams 1832 · William Godwin

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

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First love, and other stories · Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories · Лев Толстой

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Youth · Joseph Conrad

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The Black Tulip · Alexandre Dumas

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Candide and other stories · Voltaire

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Wives and Daughters 1867 · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Aurora Leigh 1850 · Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The Russian master and other stories 1947 · Антон Павлович Чехов

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The Steppe · Антон Павлович Чехов

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The Small House at Allington · Anthony Trollope

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Evelina 1778 · Fanny Burney

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The Three Musketeers · Alexandre Dumas

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The wanderer, or, Female difficulties 1814 · Fanny Burney

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Orlando · Virginia Woolf

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame · Victor Hugo

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Resurrection · Лев Толстой

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Castle Richmond · Anthony Trollope

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The memoirs of Emma Courtney · Mary Hays

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The Eclogues 1825 · Publius Vergilius Maro

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Nana · Émile Zola

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Eugene Onegin · Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

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La Vendée · Anthony Trollope

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Heart of darkness and other tales · Joseph Conrad

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Faust · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Beauchamp's Career · George Meredith

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Marius the Epicurean 1934 · Walter Pater

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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories 1976 · Henry James

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The Bride of Lammermoor · Sir Walter Scott

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War and Peace · Лев Толстой

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Billy Budd, Sailor · Herman Melville

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Madame Bovary · Gustave Flaubert

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An Old Man's Love · Anthony Trollope

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Cousin Betty · Honoré de Balzac

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Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress 1782 · Fanny Burney

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Victory · Joseph Conrad

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Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet · Charles Kingsley

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The Newcomes 1853 · William Makepeace Thackeray

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Cousin Henry 1879 · Anthony Trollope

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The Nigger of the Narcissus · Joseph Conrad

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The private papers of Henry Ryecroft · George Gissing

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Basil 1852 · Wilkie Collins

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Four comedies · Titus Maccius Plautus

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man who was Thursday · Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Joseph Andrews · Henry Fielding

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The Monk 1796 · Matthew Gregory Lewis

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The Rights of Man · Thomas Paine

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The house of mirth · Edith Wharton

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Bleak House · Charles Dickens

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A Pair Of Blue Eyes · Thomas Hardy

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The Old Wives' Tale · Arnold Bennett

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The Bostonians · Henry James

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The egoist · George Meredith

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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia · Sir Philip Sidney

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The Lost Stradivarius · John Meade Falkner

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The Poems of Catullus · Gaius Valerius Catullus

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The Annals Of The Parish 1910 · John Galt

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The attack on the mill and other stories · Émile Zola

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Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories · Guy de Maupassant

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Ward number six and other stories · Антон Павлович Чехов

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Elective affinities · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Wieland 1798 · Charles Brockden Brown

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A woman's kingdom and other stories · Антон Павлович Чехов

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

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Ruth · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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The Mysteries of Udolpho 1931 · Ann Radcliffe

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Daniel Deronda 1876 · George Eliot

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The Story of an African Farm · Olive Schreiner

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Maria · Mary Wollstonecraft

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The Wings of the Dove · Henry James

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The law and the lady 1875 · Wilkie Collins

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Marguerite de Valois · Alexandre Dumas

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Sylvia's Lovers · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Life's little ironies · Thomas Hardy

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The castle of Otranto · Horace Walpole

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The Macdermots of Ballycloran · Anthony Trollope

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The Brothers Karamazov · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Danton's death · Georg Büchner

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For the term of his natural life 1870 · Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

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La bête humaine 1947 · Émile Zola

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Felix Holt, the Radical 1800 · George Eliot

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Life's Handicap 1899 · Rudyard Kipling

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The Red and the Black · Stendhal

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The princess and other stories · Антон Павлович Чехов

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The golden lion of Granpère · Anthony Trollope

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Ayala's Angel · Anthony Trollope

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She · H. Rider Haggard

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Marriage 1818 · Susan Ferrier

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The Way We Live Now · Anthony Trollope

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Three Tales 1877 · Gustave Flaubert

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The Rover · Aphra Behn

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The House of the Dead 1886 · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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He Knew He Was Right · Anthony Trollope

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The History of Caliph Vathek · William Beckford

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Northanger Abbey · Jane Austen

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Four Major Plays · Henrik Ibsen

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Mr. Standfast · John Buchan

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The Dead Secret 1857 · Wilkie Collins

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Ther omance of Tristan · Renee L. Curtis

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The Landleaguers · Anthony Trollope

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A Hazard of New Fortunes · William Dean Howells

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The Thebaid · Publius Papinius Statius

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The Romance Of The Forest · Ann Radcliffe

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Persuasion · Jane Austen

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The merry wives of Windsor 1602 · William Shakespeare

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Anna of the Five Towns · Arnold Bennett

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

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Two On A Tower · Thomas Hardy

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The History of Henry Esmond 1852 · William Makepeace Thackeray

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Lord Byron · Lord Byron

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Orlando innamorato · Anthony Panizzi

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Carmen and other stories · Prosper Mérimée

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The Kellys and the O'Kellys · Anthony Trollope

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A Laodicean · William Avila

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Chance · Joseph Conrad

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Riders to the Sea 1911 · J. M. Synge

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Mr. Scarborough's Family · Anthony Trollope

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No name 1862 · Wilkie Collins

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Sartor Resartus · Thomas Carlyle

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The Well-Beloved · Thomas Hardy

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The Golden Bowl · Henry James

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A simple story 1791 · Mrs. Inchbald

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Thérèse Raquin · Émile Zola

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Shirley · Charlotte Brontë

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Ulysses · James Joyce

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The Nether World · George Gissing

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Poems · Oscar Wilde

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Redgauntlet · Sir Walter Scott

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The Ladies' Paradise · Émile Zola

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Pharsalia · Lucan

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Petersburg tales · Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ

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Dangerous Liaisons · Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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Eugenie Grandet · Honoré de Balzac

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Armadale 1866 · Wilkie Collins

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood · Charles Dickens

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The Mirror of the Sea · Joseph Conrad

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After London 1886 · Richard Jefferies

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The Belton Estate 1866 · Anthony Trollope

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The confessions of Saint Augustine 1595 · Augustine of Hippo

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Castle Rackrent · Maria Edgeworth

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The Romance of the Rose 1493 · Guillaume de Lorris

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Quentin Durward 1837 · Sir Walter Scott

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The Master of Ballantrae 1888 · Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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A Sicilian Romance · Ann Radcliffe

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Rachel Ray · Anthony Trollope

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The Absentee · Maria Edgeworth

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Mary Barton · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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White-Jacket · Herman Melville

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The Eustace Diamonds · Anthony Trollope

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Letters on England · Voltaire

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Jennie Gerhardt · Theodore Dreiser

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Notes from the Underground and The Gambler · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Moonstone · Wilkie Collins

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Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works · Francesco Petrarca

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The Custom of the Country · Edith Wharton

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Villette · Charlotte Brontë

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The Ambassadors · Henry James

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The good soldier · Ford Madox Ford

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The Woman in White · Wilkie Collins

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Meditations 1635 · Marcus Aurelius

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Eirik the Red and other Icelandic sagas 1961 · Gwyn Jones

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Pudd'nhead Wilson and other tales · Mark Twain

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Thomas Hardy · Thomas Hardy

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Sybil, or the Two Nations · Benjamin Disraeli

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The Pathfinder · James Fenimore Cooper

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A Russian Schoolboy 1917 · S. T. Aksakov

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Orlando Furioso 1781 · Lodovico Ariosto

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Father Goriot · Honoré de Balzac

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Adam Bede 1859 · George Eliot

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St. Leon · William Godwin

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Poor Miss Finch 1872 · Wilkie Collins

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

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The ordeal of Richard Feverel 1859 · George Meredith

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The Castles Of Athlin And Dunbayne · Ann Radcliffe

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The Forsyte Saga · John Galsworthy

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North and South · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Belinda · Maria Edgeworth

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Memoirs of a Cavalier Or A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648 · Daniel Defoe

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Nazarin · Benito Pérez Galdós

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The man of feeling 1771 · Henry Mackenzie

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The Anglo-Saxon World · Kevin Crossley-Holland

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In A Glass Darkly 1872 · Sheridan Le Fanu

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The Rise of Silas Lapham · William Dean Howells

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The Origin of Species 1882 · Charles Darwin

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Orlando Furioso · Lodovico Ariosto

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Huntingtower · John Buchan

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

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Sense and sensibility · Jane Austen

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Typee · Herman Melville

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De Bello Gallico And Other Commentaries 1853 · Gaius Julius Caesar

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David Copperfield · Charles Dickens

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Moby Dick · Herman Melville

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The Winter's Tale 1735 · William Shakespeare

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The Lady of the Camellias · Alexandre Dumas fils

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Wuthering Heights · Emily Brontë

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Framley Parsonage · Anthony Trollope

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The Canterbury Tales · Geoffrey Chaucer

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Lady Audley's Secret 1862 · Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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

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Dombey and Son · Charles Dickens

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Love's labour's lost 1631 · William Shakespeare

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The mayor of Casterbridge · Thomas Hardy

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Fanny Hill · John Cleland

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Peter Pan · J. M. Barrie

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The tempest · William Shakespeare

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Emma · Jane Austen

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The Country Of The Blind And Other Stories · H. G. Wells

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Barchester Towers · Anthony Trollope

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Peer Gynt · Henrik Ibsen

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A Tale of Two Cities · Charles Dickens

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Pride and Prejudice · Jane Austen

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Mansfield Park · Jane Austen

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The Lusíads · Luís de Camões

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The Shadow Line · Joseph Conrad

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Fathers and Sons · Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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Nicholas Nickleby 1843 · Charles Dickens

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Roxana · Daniel Defoe

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Greenmantle · John Buchan

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Middlemarch · George Eliot

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The Water-Babies · Charles Kingsley

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The Divine Comedy · Dante Alighieri

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Uncle Silas 1864 · Sheridan Le Fanu

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Man and wife 1870 · Wilkie Collins

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Washington Square · Henry James

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Lord Jim · Joseph Conrad

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Poems · Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Agnes Grey · Anne Brontë

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Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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The history of Sir Charles Grandison · Samuel Richardson

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Vanity Fair 1848 · William Makepeace Thackeray

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Second Jungle Book · Rudyard Kipling

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The Man in the Iron Mask · Alexandre Dumas

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The Secret Agent · Joseph Conrad

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The turn of the screw · Henry James

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Jude the Obscure · Thomas Hardy

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Jane Eyre · Charlotte Brontë

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes · Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Flowers of Evil · Charles Baudelaire

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The last of the Mohicans · James Fenimore Cooper

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Oliver Twist 1800 · Charles Dickens

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Allan Quatermain · H. Rider Haggard

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The Thirty-Nine Steps · John Buchan

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Antigone · Sophocles

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Nostromo · Joseph Conrad

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The Portrait of a Lady · Henry James

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Sister Carrie 1900 · Theodore Dreiser

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The Wind in the Willows · Kenneth Grahame

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Anna Karenina · Лев Толстой

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The Christmas Books · Charles Dickens

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The Vicar of Wakefield 1783 · Oliver Goldsmith

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Henry V 1900 · William Shakespeare

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The Trumpet-Major · Thomas Hardy

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The Pickwick Papers 1847 · Charles Dickens

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Treasure Island · Robert Louis Stevenson

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Lorna Doone · R. D. Blackmore

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Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton

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Frankenstein · Mary Shelley

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The Heart of Mid-lothian · Sir Walter Scott

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The House of the Seven Gables · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Scarlet Letter · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A Journal of the Plague Year · Daniel Defoe

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

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The Dark Side · Guy de Maupassant

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The Prince and the Pauper · Mark Twain

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Sherlock Holmes · Arthur Conan Doyle

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Esther Waters 1894 · George Moore

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The time machine · H. G. Wells

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Around the World in Eighty Days · Jules Verne

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As You Like It 1734 · William Shakespeare

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Little Women · Louisa May Alcott

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The Decameron · Giovanni Boccaccio

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The Confidence-Man · Herman Melville

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall · Anne Brontë

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Sign of the Four · Arthur Conan Doyle

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The mill on the floss 1800 · George Eliot

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La Vita Nuova 1899 · Dante Alighieri

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Our Mutual Friend 1868 · Charles Dickens

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The Deerslayer · James Fenimore Cooper

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Barry Lyndon 1853 · William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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The Swiss Family Robinson · Johann David Wyss

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Dracula · Bram Stoker

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The Aeneid 1874 · Publius Vergilius Maro

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The Iliad · Όμηρος

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Waverley · Sir Walter Scott

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The invisible man 1897 · H. G. Wells

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Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde

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Dr. Wortle's school · Anthony Trollope

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What Maisie Knew · Henry James

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The secret garden · Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Indiana · George Sand

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The Europeans · Henry James

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A Tale of a Tub · Jonathan Swift

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The Prisoner of Zenda 1894 · Anthony Hope

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Five Children and It · Edith Nesbit

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The idiot · Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Kim · Rudyard Kipling

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Little Dorrit · Charles Dickens

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The Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli

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

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The Fables of La Fontaine · Jean de La Fontaine

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Under the Greenwood Tree 1872 · Thomas Hardy

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Silas Marner · George Eliot

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All's well that ends well 1734 · William Shakespeare

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The Odes And Carmen Saeculare of Horace · Horace

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Casebook of Sherlock Holmes 1927 · Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · Mark Twain

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The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

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The Blithedale Romance · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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John Donne · John Donne

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The Woodlanders 1887 · Thomas Hardy

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The War of the Worlds · H. G. Wells

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King Solomon's mines · H. Rider Haggard

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The Pioneers · James Fenimore Cooper

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Gulliver's Travels · Jonathan Swift

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Cranford · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Pinocchio 1904 · Carlo Collodi

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Cyrano de Bergerac · Edmond Rostand

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Jacob's Room · Virginia Woolf

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Hard times 1891 · Charles Dickens

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Ivanhoe · Sir Walter Scott

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A Month in the Country · Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles 1920 · Thomas Hardy

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Great Expectations · Charles Dickens

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The Warden · Anthony Trollope

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Troilus and Cressida 1714 · William Shakespeare