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H. De Vere Stacpoole · English
A tropical castaway romance about childhood, survival, innocence, nature, isolation, and awakening desire.
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H. De Vere Stacpoole · English
A tropical castaway romance about childhood, survival, innocence, nature, isolation, and awakening desire.

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Frederick Marryat · English
A children’s historical adventure of the English Civil War, survival, disguise, loyalty, and woodland life.

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Philip Sidney · English
An Elizabethan prose romance of pastoral disguise, political counsel, love, virtue, rhetoric, and adventure.

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Walter Scott · English
A historical romance of Shetland, Norse memory, family rivalry, sea adventure, disguise, and passion.

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James Malcolm Rymer · English
The penny dreadful that introduced Sweeney Todd, blending urban horror, crime, revenge, and sensational mystery.

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Samuel Johnson · English
Samuel Johnson’s influential moral essays on character, learning, ambition, grief, and literary judgment.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge · English
Coleridge’s classic blend of autobiography, poetic theory, philosophy, and Romantic literary criticism.

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Samuel Richardson · English
A landmark English epistolary novel about virtue, class, seduction, domestic power, and moral self-command.

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Maria Edgeworth · English
A sharp Anglo-Irish novel of estate decline, unreliable narration, family power, and social change.

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Jean Webster · English
A witty epistolary campus novel about education, independence, gratitude, secrecy, and self-discovery.

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Jean Webster · English
A lively sequel of letters about orphan care, reform, friendship, stubborn affection, and practical idealism.

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Wilkie Collins · English
A sensation novel about marriage law, athletic culture, deception, inheritance, and social hypocrisy.

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Edward Lear · English
Edward Lear’s collected nonsense classics, including limericks, comic songs, alphabets, botany, and playful rhymes.

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James Weldon Johnson · English
A powerful early twentieth-century novel on race, passing, music, identity, violence, and American society.

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Willa Cather · English
A major American artist novel about music, ambition, immigrant communities, landscape, discipline, and vocation.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. · English
A classic literature work on table-talk essays, humor, memory, books, society, and humane reflection.

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Jonathan Swift · English
A classic literature work on ancient and modern learning, literary pride, satire, libraries, and mock-heroic wit.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe · English
A classic literature work on New England faith, courtship, conscience, family feeling, and community life.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs · English
A classic literature work on lost-world adventure, survival, prehistoric danger, exploration, and pulp imagination.

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Zane Grey · English
A classic literature work on Texas frontier justice, outlaw country, danger, loyalty, and redemption.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs · English
A classic literature work on jungle adventure, espionage, lost treasure, travel, survival, and heroic return.

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Edmund Spenser · English
A monumental English Renaissance epic of holiness, virtue, chivalry, allegory, and political imagination.

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Willa Cather · English
A modern American novel of memory, scholarship, family tension, loss, and inward exile.

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Anthony Trollope · English
A Barsetshire novel of clergy, ambition, debt, politics, marriage, social pressure, and Trollope’s realist comedy.