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Virginia Woolf · English
A modernist novel of family, perception, art, grief, time, and the spaces between people.
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Virginia Woolf · English
A modernist novel of family, perception, art, grief, time, and the spaces between people.
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Virginia Woolf · English
A single-day modernist novel of memory, society, trauma, time, and inward life.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald · English
A glittering American tragedy of wealth, desire, reinvention, illusion, and loss.
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Charles Dickens · English
A social novel of orphanhood, poverty, crime, innocence, and the harsh machinery of charity.
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Charles Dickens · English
A deeply personal Bildungsroman of childhood, memory, work, love, friendship, and becoming a writer.
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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A moorland mystery where rational detection confronts legend, fear, inheritance, and a spectral hound.
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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
The first Sherlock Holmes novel, introducing deduction, Watson, London mystery, and a transatlantic revenge plot.
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Henry David Thoreau · English
Thoreau’s experiment in simple living, attention, nature, labor, solitude, and moral independence.
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Oscar Wilde · English
A decadent novel of beauty, corruption, influence, secrecy, and the soul hidden in a portrait.
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Charles Dickens · English
A revolutionary novel of sacrifice, doubles, vengeance, terror, and resurrection.
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Emily Brontë · English
A storm-dark novel of passion, revenge, inheritance, violence, and haunted memory.
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Mark Twain · English
A river novel of freedom, friendship, conscience, satire, and the contradictions of America.
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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
A compact Gothic tale of divided identity, repression, experiment, and moral horror.
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Louisa May Alcott · English
A warm but unsentimental novel of sisters, work, imagination, growing up, and choosing a life.
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George Eliot · English
A richly woven novel of marriage, vocation, reform, provincial life, and moral consequence.
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William Shakespeare · English
A tragedy of young love caught between family hatred, speed, secrecy, chance, and fatal timing.
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Jack London · English
A powerful animal adventure about instinct, survival, violence, loyalty, and return to the wild.
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Jane Austen · English
Austen’s novel of sisters, feeling, restraint, money, marriage, and emotional education.
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Charles Dickens · English
A ghost story of memory, conscience, poverty, generosity, and the possibility of moral change.
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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
A swift adventure of pirates, maps, mutiny, courage, and the dangerous charm of Long John Silver.
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Charles Dickens · English
A coming-of-age novel about ambition, shame, class illusion, love, and moral awakening.
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Traditional · English
An early Chinese anthology of songs about love, labor, ritual, war, marriage, and political complaint.
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Sabahattin Ali · English
A quiet novel of memory, missed intimacy, solitude, and the emotional life hidden behind reserve.
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Lewis Carroll · English
A dreamlike journey through nonsense, logic games, strange authority, and the instability of growing up.