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Nathaniel Hawthorne · English
A Roman romance of art, innocence, secrecy, and guilt by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne · English
A Roman romance of art, innocence, secrecy, and guilt by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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William Dean Howells · English
A realist portrait of business success, social aspiration, and moral testing in Gilded Age Boston.

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Literature
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Henry James · English
A complex novel of inheritance, illness, love, and moral calculation in London and Venice.

Italian
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Giovanni Verga · Italian
Un romanzo giovanile di Verga su passione, gelosia, malattia e seduzione aristocratica.

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Literature
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Henry James · English
A tightly shaped New York novel about inheritance, courtship, parental control, and quiet resistance.

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Philosophy
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John Stuart Mill · English
Mill’s major work on induction, scientific method, reasoning, evidence, and social science.

Portuguese
Literature
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Manuel de Oliveira Paiva · Portuguese
Um romance regionalista do Ceará sobre poder, desejo, violência e decadência rural.

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Art
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann · German
Winckelmanns Hauptwerk zur antiken Kunst, griechischen Idealform und Kunstgeschichtsschreibung.

Italian
Education
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Lu Yu · Italian
Versione italiana del trattato cinese sul tè, dalla coltivazione agli utensili e alla degustazione.

French
Religion
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François-René de Chateaubriand · French
Une défense romantique du christianisme par la beauté, la poésie, l’art et la mémoire.

Spanish
Religion
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Teresa de Jesús · Spanish
La autobiografía espiritual de Teresa de Jesús sobre oración, gracia, visión y reforma carmelita.

German
Psychology
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Sigmund Freud · German
Freuds Untersuchung von Masse, Führerbindung, Ich, Identifikation und sozialer Psychologie.

French
History
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François-René de Chateaubriand · French
Première partie nettoyée des mémoires de Chateaubriand, centrée sur l’enfance, Combourg, l’exil et la mémoire romantique.

English
Science
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Isaac Newton · English
Newton’s classic experiments on light, color, prisms, reflection, refraction, and scientific method.

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Economics
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John Stuart Mill · English
A public-domain abridged edition of Mill’s economics text on production, distribution, trade, taxation, and reform.

German
History
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Theodor Mommsen · German
Mommsens monumentale Darstellung der römischen Republik, Politik, Expansion und Krise.

French
Art
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Denis Diderot · French
Les critiques d’art de Diderot observent peinture, théâtre du regard et goût des Lumières.

Spanish
Philosophy
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Laozi · Spanish
Versión española del clásico taoísta sobre el Dao, la virtud, el gobierno, la sencillez y el no actuar.

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Art
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William Hogarth · English
Hogarth’s influential art treatise on line, movement, variety, grace, and visual composition.

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Military
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Theodore A. Dodge · English
A detailed military study of Chancellorsville, command decisions, maneuver, terrain, and Civil War strategy.

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History
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Thomas Carlyle · English
A dramatic historical narrative of crowds, monarchy, terror, and revolutionary energy in France.

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History
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William H. Prescott · English
A nineteenth-century narrative of Pizarro, the Inca Empire, conquest, conflict, and empire.

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Theology
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Richard Baxter · English
A Puritan classic on pastoral duty, preaching, discipline, conscience, and care of souls.

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Education
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John Dewey · English
Dewey’s compact argument for active learning, democracy, experience, and school reform.