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The Amateur Cracksman

E. W. Hornung · English

The first A. J. Raffles stories: gentleman burglary, friendship, sport, risk, disguise, and moral ambiguity.

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The Blazing World

Margaret Cavendish · English

A bold seventeenth-century utopian romance mixing science, empire, satire, gender, and speculative imagination.

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The Law and the Lady

Wilkie Collins · English

A sensation novel of marriage, legal injustice, investigation, female agency, secrets, and courtroom memory.

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The Way of the World

William Congreve · English

A brilliant Restoration comedy of wit, marriage bargaining, inheritance, manners, desire, and social performance.

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A Honeymoon in Space

George Chetwynd Griffith · English

An early space romance of planetary travel, scientific adventure, satire, empire, and cosmic imagination.

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A Pair of Blue Eyes

Thomas Hardy · English

An early Hardy novel of love, hesitation, class mobility, rural Cornwall, and romantic misrecognition.

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Anton Reiser

Karl Philipp Moritz · German

Ein psychologischer Roman über Kindheit, Bildung, Scham, Theatersehnsucht, Armut und Selbstbeobachtung.

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Catriona

Robert Louis Stevenson · English

Stevenson’s sequel to Kidnapped, mixing Scottish history, legal peril, romance, exile, and adventure.

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Corinne ou l’Italie

Germaine de Staël · French

Un grand roman européen sur l’Italie, le génie féminin, l’amour, l’exil, l’art et la société.

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Der grüne Kakadu

Arthur Schnitzler · German

Ein brillantes Einakterspiel über Theater, Wirklichkeit, Revolution, Rollenspiel und gesellschaftliche Maske.

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Il Cortegiano

Baldassare Castiglione · Italian

Un classico rinascimentale sull’educazione del cortigiano, la grazia, la conversazione, le arti e il potere.

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La aldea perdida

Armando Palacio Valdés · Spanish

Una novela sobre aldea, minería, cambio social, memoria rural, amor y conflicto moderno.

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Leutnant Gustl

Arthur Schnitzler · German

Eine frühe Bewusstseinsstrom-Novelle über Ehre, Angst, Militär, Männlichkeit und innere Monologe.

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Moods

Louisa May Alcott · English

An early Alcott novel about marriage, temperament, self-knowledge, duty, desire, and emotional education.

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Penrod

Booth Tarkington · English

A comic American childhood classic about mischief, imagination, family, school, status, and small-town life.

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Ramuntcho

Pierre Loti · French

Un roman basque de Pierre Loti sur l’amour, la frontière, la contrebande, la foi et le départ.

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The Blue Lagoon

H. De Vere Stacpoole · English

A tropical castaway romance about childhood, survival, innocence, nature, isolation, and awakening desire.

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