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Ann Radcliffe · English
A landmark Gothic novel of terror, romance, suspense, and hidden chambers.
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Ann Radcliffe · English
A landmark Gothic novel of terror, romance, suspense, and hidden chambers.
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Henry Fielding · English
A comic English novel of youth, love, mistaken judgment, and social satire.
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John Dewey · English
A major work of educational philosophy on democracy, experience, growth, and learning.
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John Ruskin · English
A practical and thoughtful guide to drawing, observation, line, tone, and visual discipline.
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Alexander Hamilton · English
Foundational essays on constitutional design, federal power, liberty, and republican government.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan · English
A classic study of naval power, strategy, trade routes, and global history.
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H. G. Wells · English
A tense science-fiction novel about invisibility, isolation, power, and moral collapse.
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Rudyard Kipling · English
A classic collection of animal stories about law, belonging, courage, and survival.
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James Fenimore Cooper · English
A frontier adventure of conflict, loyalty, survival, and historical imagination.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne · English
A dark American classic about guilt, punishment, secrecy, and moral judgment.
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John Ruskin · English
A major work of art and architectural criticism on Venice, Gothic design, craft, and culture.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe · English
A powerful antislavery novel about family, suffering, faith, and moral witness.
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Jane Austen · English
A mature Austen novel about regret, constancy, social pressure, and second chances.
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Wilkie Collins · English
A pioneering detective novel built around theft, suspicion, testimony, and hidden motive.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett · English
A beloved children’s classic about loneliness, friendship, healing, and a hidden garden.
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H. G. Wells · English
A foundational science-fiction invasion novel of fear, technology, empire, and survival.
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Traditional Text · English
An ancient Chinese mathematics classic of algorithms, measurement, equations, proportions, and practical problems.
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William Shakespeare · English
Shakespeare’s tragedy of mourning, delay, revenge, performance, thought, and corrupted power.
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Alfred Marshall · English
Marshall’s influential synthesis of supply, demand, value, cost, welfare, and economic reasoning.
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Thomas Paine · English
Paine’s defense of revolution, natural rights, representative government, and social reform.
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Thomas Paine · English
A revolutionary pamphlet arguing plainly for independence, republican government, and political self-determination.
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Kahlil Gibran · English
A lyrical book of brief teachings on love, work, freedom, sorrow, children, and death.
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John Bunyan · English
An allegorical journey of faith, temptation, burden, perseverance, and spiritual destination.
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J. M. Barrie · English
A fantasy of childhood, flight, Neverland, play, danger, and the refusal to grow up.