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Margaret Cavendish · English
A bold seventeenth-century utopian romance mixing science, empire, satire, gender, and speculative imagination.
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Margaret Cavendish · English
A bold seventeenth-century utopian romance mixing science, empire, satire, gender, and speculative imagination.

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Wilkie Collins · English
A sensation novel of marriage, legal injustice, investigation, female agency, secrets, and courtroom memory.

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Anthony Trollope · English
A Barsetshire novel of courtship, loyalty, ambition, family pressure, social position, and moral patience.

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William Congreve · English
A brilliant Restoration comedy of wit, marriage bargaining, inheritance, manners, desire, and social performance.

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George Chetwynd Griffith · English
An early space romance of planetary travel, scientific adventure, satire, empire, and cosmic imagination.

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Thomas Hardy · English
An early Hardy novel of love, hesitation, class mobility, rural Cornwall, and romantic misrecognition.

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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
Stevenson’s sequel to Kidnapped, mixing Scottish history, legal peril, romance, exile, and adventure.

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Germaine de Staël · French
Un grand roman européen sur l’Italie, le génie féminin, l’amour, l’exil, l’art et la société.

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Arthur Schnitzler · German
Ein brillantes Einakterspiel über Theater, Wirklichkeit, Revolution, Rollenspiel und gesellschaftliche Maske.

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Armando Palacio Valdés · Spanish
Una novela sobre aldea, minería, cambio social, memoria rural, amor y conflicto moderno.

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Anonymous · Spanish
Un relato clásico coreano sobre piedad filial, sacrificio, pobreza, milagro, ceguera y reconocimiento familiar.

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Pierre Loti · French
Un roman colonial de Loti sur le Sénégal, le désir, l’armée, l’exotisme et la désillusion.

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Kong Shangren · French
Un grand drame chinois sur amour, loyauté, chute des Ming, mémoire historique et destin politique.

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Louisa May Alcott · English
An early Alcott novel about marriage, temperament, self-knowledge, duty, desire, and emotional education.

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Booth Tarkington · English
A comic American childhood classic about mischief, imagination, family, school, status, and small-town life.

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Pierre Loti · French
Un roman basque de Pierre Loti sur l’amour, la frontière, la contrebande, la foi et le départ.

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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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Santa Rita Durão · Portuguese
Poema épico luso-brasileiro sobre descobrimento, encontro cultural, heroísmo e imaginação colonial.