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Author:Darwin, Charles
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Author:Dumas, Alexandre
Summary: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.
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Author:Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Summary: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.
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Author:Conrad, Joseph
Summary: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.
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Author:Douglass, Frederick
Summary: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
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Author:Alcott, Louisa May
Summary:In the sequel to Little Men, we visit the Plumefield students 10 years later, watching them encounter all the pitfalls of young adulthood.
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Author:Tolstoy, Leo
Summary:This epic saga of Russian life in the days of the Napoleonic wars centers on the loves and losses of five aristocratic families.
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Author:Tolstoy, Leo
Summary:A man condemns love and marriage and then gets married with predictably unfortunate results in what Tolstoy intended to be a persuasive argument for abstinence.
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Author:Hamilton, Alexander
,Madison, James
,Jay, John
Summary:Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison pulled off the incredible feat of outlining an entire democratic government with rhetorical and syntactical flair in this collection of 85 articles an
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Author:Haggard, H. Rider
Summary:A group of adventurers led by English fortune hunter Allan Quartermain follow a mysterious map on a quest to uncover the legendary mines of the biblical King Solomon.
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Author:Andersen, Hans Christian
Summary:Beloved children's classics such as “The Ugly Duckling,” “Thumbelina,” "The Little Match Girl," and “The Princess and the Pea.” By turns heartbreaking and joyous, these are the stor
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Author:Kafka, Franz
Summary:Described by Nobel laureate Elias Canetti as, "one of the few great and perfect works of the poetic imagination," this short fable about a man who wakes up one morning transformed into a
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Author:Baum, L. Frank
Summary:Spoiler alert: there are no songs, and the slippers are silver. Luckily, there’s still a Yellow Brick Road and flying monkeys.
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Author:Twain, Mark
Summary:Huck Finn fakes his own death to escape a cushy life with a kind widow because he is sick of wearing shoes. Back on the river where he belongs, he teams up with an escaped slave named Jim.
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Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis
Summary:Utterson and Enfield are worried about their friend, Dr. Jekyll, who has been spending his time on a mysterious research project.
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