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The greatest book about why you shouldn’t read books, weirdly written at a time when there weren’t that many books to read.

In ancient India a young man begins a spiritual journey that will take him into the company of the Buddha, the arms of a gorgeous courtesan and to the river that will ultimately teach him enlighten

The 15 unforgettable short stories that form this collection paint the portrait of a city through the eyes of its middle class residents.

This collection of eleven short stories by one of our greatest American writers includes “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “May Day.”

In Wilde’s masterful farce, two aristocratic young Londoners create a great deal of confusion when they independently fabricate intricate double lives in order to escape oppressive social obligatio

Widowed Hester Prynne, isolated in a new country, seeks comfort in the arms of a lover.

The dramatic conclusion to the saga of d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers — and the revelation of the mysterious man in the iron mask.

Orphan Anne Shirley, with her signature red braids and rich imagination, is sent by mistake to a brother and sister who had wanted a boy to help with farm work.

Join an eccentric young naturalist on a tropical voyage to exotic destinations where he encounters fascinating and sometimes dangerous creatures and meets local residents who free him from the rigi

Growing up in genteel poverty in 17th-century France, young d'Artagnan dreams of becoming a hero and sets out to join the elite company of the King's trusted Musketeers.

Dostoevsky’s last work, about a family torn apart by greed and jealousy. Three, possibly four, brothers gamble, steal, commit patricide and talk to the devil. It’s like daytime T.V.

Darker, weirder and shorter than its flashy younger brother Apocalypse Now, this modernist classic follows a riverboat captain and a reluctant assassin up the Congo River.

Frederick Douglass’s memoir depicts his life as a slave, from his birth into southern slavery to his inspiring fight to learn how to read, escape as a free man and become a leader of the abolitioni

In the sequel to Little Men, we visit the Plumefield students 10 years later, watching them encounter all the pitfalls of young adulthood.

This epic saga of Russian life in the days of the Napoleonic wars centers on the loves and losses of five aristocratic families.