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William Makepeace Thackeray · English
A Victorian coming-of-age novel about ambition, vanity, journalism, love, and self-knowledge.
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William Makepeace Thackeray · English
A Victorian coming-of-age novel about ambition, vanity, journalism, love, and self-knowledge.
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William Makepeace Thackeray · English
A generous Victorian family chronicle of money, marriage, art, class, and moral feeling.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs · English
John Carter’s leap to Barsoom launches sword-and-planet adventure at full speed.
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Henry Adams · English
Washington politics becomes a sharp comedy of ambition, influence, and moral compromise.
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Sinclair Lewis · English
A fierce satire of American revivalism, salesmanship, celebrity, and spiritual hunger.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald · English
Fitzgerald studies beauty, money, marriage, and drift before the glamour curdles.
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Theodore Dreiser · English
An artist’s hunger for beauty and success becomes a restless study of desire.
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Booth Tarkington · English
A proud family declines as automobiles, industry, and modern manners remake America.
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Theodore Dreiser · English
Frank Cowperwood expands his empire through finance, politics, desire, and ruthless charm.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald · English
Youth, privilege, love, and restlessness define Fitzgerald’s first Jazz Age breakthrough.
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Jeremy Taylor · English
A seventeenth-century devotional classic on mortality, preparation, repentance, and Christian hope.
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Jeremy Taylor · English
Jeremy Taylor gives practical Anglican guidance on devotion, discipline, charity, and daily holiness.
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G. K. Chesterton · English
Chesterton answers modern history with a sweeping Christian vision of humanity and Christ.
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Herman Melville · English
A haunting Wall Street tale of refusal, office routine, alienation, and moral bewilderment.
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George Eliot · English
A political and social novel about reform, inheritance, conscience, and class conflict.
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George Eliot · English
Three early George Eliot stories about clergy, provincial life, sympathy, and moral trial.
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Sarah Orne Jewett · English
A quiet coastal Maine classic about memory, community, solitude, and regional life.
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George Eliot · English
A psychological Gothic tale of clairvoyance, dread, marriage, and moral isolation.
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William Morris · English
An early fantasy romance of exile, enchanted landscapes, desire, danger, and quest.
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Charles Dickens · English
Dickens’s historical novel of mystery, family secrets, public violence, and the Gordon Riots of 1780.
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Charles Dickens · English
A mature Dickens novel about pride, commerce, family neglect, railways, childhood, and emotional awakening.
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Charles Dickens · English
A compact Dickens novel about factories, utilitarian education, class pressure, and the human cost of hard facts.
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Charles Dickens · English
A Dickens satire of selfishness, inheritance, hypocrisy, America, architecture, and moral conversion.
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Charles Dickens · English
A lively Dickens novel of family struggle, abusive schools, theater life, injustice, and comic resilience.