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Wilkie Collins · English
A collection of linked tales where a night of storytelling becomes a portrait of fear, chance, and urban life.
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Wilkie Collins · English
A collection of linked tales where a night of storytelling becomes a portrait of fear, chance, and urban life.

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Dante Alighieri · English
Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise remains one of world literature’s defining visions of sin, justice, love, memory, and transcendence.

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Mary Martha Sherwood · English
A formative children’s classic about family discipline, conscience, affection, and moral growth.

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Liu Xie · English
A foundational Chinese treatise on literary form, rhetoric, style, emotion, genre, and the moral responsibilities of writing.

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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
The Amateur Emigrant presents a focused classic of literature and cultural history.

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Andrew Lang · English
The Blue Fairy Book presents a focused classic of literature and cultural history.

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Grant Allen and Walter Besant · English
The Golden Butterfly presents a focused classic of literature and cultural history.

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Wang Guowei · English
An English rendering of Wang Guowei’s poetics of artistic experience.

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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
The Rajah’s Diamond presents a focused classic of literature and cultural history.

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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
The Story of a Lie presents a focused classic of literature and cultural history.

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Walter Scott · English
A Reformation-era historical novel of Mary, Queen of Scots, political loyalty and religious conflict.

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Oscar Wilde · English
A witty ghost story in which an ancient haunting meets an irreverent American family and the possibility of compassion.

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Daniel Defoe · English
A provocative history of Satan as Defoe examines temptation, evil, human responsibility and religious imagination.

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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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Wang Yangming · English
Wang Yangming’s conversations and letters on conscience, knowledge, action, self-cultivation, and moral practice.

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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.