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Booth Tarkington · English
A proud family declines as automobiles, industry, and modern manners remake America.
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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.

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Walter Scott · English
A Walter Scott historical romance of Scotland, Jacobite tension, family conflict, and the outlaw Rob Roy.

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Walter Scott · English
A tragic Scott romance of family feud, doomed love, political ambition, and Scottish Gothic atmosphere.

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Walter Scott · English
A Scottish historical novel of law, conscience, sisterhood, public unrest, and Jeanie Deans’s journey.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton · English
A historical novel of Pompeii before Vesuvius, mixing romance, religion, politics, and catastrophe.

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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
A foundational adventure and science-fiction novel of Professor Challenger, exploration, dinosaurs, and a hidden plateau.

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Charles Dickens · English
A sentimental Dickens journey following Little Nell through debt, pursuit, poverty, kindness, and loss.

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Francis Parkman · English
A nineteenth-century travel narrative of the American West, the plains, frontier movement, and encounter.