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Henry James · English
An artistic coming-of-age novel about ambition, expatriate life, desire and the cost of genius.
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Henry James · English
An artistic coming-of-age novel about ambition, expatriate life, desire and the cost of genius.

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Washington Irving · English
Legends, travelers’ sketches and Moorish memories gathered around Granada’s palace-fortress.

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George Meredith · English
A lively Bildungsroman of mistaken identity, theatrical ambition, family secrets and romantic pursuit.

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Guan Hanqing · English
A landmark collection of Yuan-dynasty drama about false accusation, filial duty, power and the demand for justice.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson · English
A major elegy tracing grief, doubt, memory, faith, and the slow return of hope.

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John Webster · English
A dark revenge tragedy of secret marriage, dynastic control, surveillance, and defiance.

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Aphra Behn · English
A Restoration comedy of disguise, desire, freedom, and negotiation during Carnival in Naples.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton · English
Eugene Aram explores scholarship, hidden crime, remorse, romance, and conscience.

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William Shakespeare · English
King Lear explores family conflict, authority, madness, suffering, loyalty, and recognition.

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William Shakespeare · English
Macbeth explores prophecy, ambition, guilt, tyranny, violence, and the price of power.

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William Shakespeare · English
Othello explores love, jealousy, manipulation, trust, reputation, and betrayal.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton · English
Pelham explores fashion, rivalry, manners, reputation, and sophisticated society.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton · English
Rienzi explores medieval Rome, political reform, popular power, and revolution.

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Bram Stoker · English
The Lady of the Shroud explores veiled apparitions, Balkan politics, inheritance, romance, and suspense.

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Bram Stoker · English
The Lair of the White Worm explores ancient evil, monstrous folklore, inheritance, and a cursed landscape.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes · English
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table explores poetry, science, medicine, friendship, memory, and conversation.

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Wu Jingzi · English
The Scholars, Volume One explores civil examinations, scholars, reputation, hypocrisy and social ambition.

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William Shakespeare · English
The Tempest explores shipwreck, magic, exile, revenge, freedom, forgiveness, and art.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton · English
Zanoni explores immortality, occult initiation, love, ambition, and forbidden knowledge.

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H. P. Lovecraft · English
A cosmic-horror story in which an ancient presence reaches into dreams, cults, and the fragile limits of human knowledge.

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H. P. Lovecraft · English
A rural New England tragedy caused by an influence that falls from the sky and resists every ordinary explanation.

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H. P. Lovecraft · English
A rural Massachusetts family attempts to bring an impossible birth and an older-than-human power into the world.

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E. Nesbit · English
A comic children’s adventure in which the Bastable children invent schemes to restore their family fortunes.

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Baroness Orczy · English
A collection of armchair mysteries solved through logic, newspaper evidence, and a sharp eye for contradictions.