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Walter Scott · English
A Norman knight, a Welsh heiress, and a kingdom in transition meet in Scott’s richly staged tale of loyalty and political change.
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Walter Scott · English
A Norman knight, a Welsh heiress, and a kingdom in transition meet in Scott’s richly staged tale of loyalty and political change.

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Walter Scott · English
A reclusive outsider, a family feud, and a threatened wedding collide in Scott’s compact tale of injustice and revenge.

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Education
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Isabella Beeton · English
Isabella Beeton’s celebrated household manual combines recipes, menus, domestic advice, and practical guidance for running a Victorian home.

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Wang Shifu · English
A secret courtship unfolds through poetry, wit, and intermediaries in Wang Shifu’s celebrated Yuan dynasty drama.

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Liu E · English
A wandering physician travels through late Qing China, witnessing local injustice and social decay with compassion and sharp political insight.

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Charles Dickens · English
A domestic Christmas tale in which jealousy, mistaken appearances, and a mysterious visitor test the meaning of trust at home.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett · English
Sara Crewe’s imagination becomes her refuge when a privileged schoolgirl is suddenly treated as an orphaned servant.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. · English
Essays, anecdotes, and philosophical reflections unfold around an imaginary breakfast table, where ordinary conversation opens onto mind, memory, and society.

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Mark Twain · English
A murder trial exposes how racial classification, inherited privilege, and a single switch in infancy can overturn an entire community’s idea of identity.

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Gustave Flaubert · English
Emma Bovary tries to live the passionate life promised by romantic fiction, while marriage, debt, desire, and provincial judgment close in around her.

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Charlotte M. Yonge · English
A family inheritance brings two opposing temperaments together: generous idealism on one side, suspicion and self-righteousness on the other.

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Anthony Trollope · English
A country clergyman accused of theft becomes the center of a moral crisis involving conscience, reputation, poverty, and the judgment of a close-knit society.

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Franz Kafka · English
When Gregor Samsa wakes transformed into an insect, his family’s dependence on his wages turns overnight into fear, shame, and abandonment.

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Walter Scott · English
At a troubled Scottish abbey, reform, superstition, political change, and romantic adventure collide as an old order begins to disappear.

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Philosophy
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Mencius · English
Public-domain classic by Mencius: Mencius, a Chinese philosophy first published in -300.

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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
Public-domain classic by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Beach of Falesá, a adventure fiction first published in 1893.

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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
Public-domain classic by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Body Snatcher, a gothic fiction first published in 1884.

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Wilkie Collins · English
Public-domain classic by Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel, a mystery novel first published in 1878.

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George MacDonald · English
Public-domain classic by George MacDonald: The Light Princess, a fairy tale first published in 1864.

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Joseph Conrad · English
Public-domain classic by Joseph Conrad: The Nigger of the Narcissus, a sea novel first published in 1897.

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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
Public-domain classic by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Pavilion on the Links, a mystery adventure first published in 1880.

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George MacDonald · English
Public-domain classic by George MacDonald: The Princess and Curdie, a children's fantasy first published in 1883.

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George MacDonald · English
Public-domain classic by George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin, a children's fantasy first published in 1872.

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Joseph Conrad · English
Public-domain classic by Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer, a psychological fiction first published in 1910.