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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Gift of the Magi, Tobin's Palm, A Cosmopolite in a Cafe, Between Round... more »
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The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It has obtained undisp... more »
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George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Deronda contrasts the moral laxity of the British aristocracy with the dedicated fervor of Jewish nationalists. Crushed by a loveless m... more »
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Dream; Ruler of Men; The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear; Helping the ... more »
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Walking
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Thoreau, Henry David
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A meandering ode to the simple act and accomplished art of taking a walk. Profound and humorous, companionable and curmudgeonly. Walking, by America's first nature writer, is your personal and porta... more »
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Middlemarch is George Eliot's masterpiece, a Victorian novel on the grandest scale. Originally published in serial form in Blackwood's Magazine in 1871-1872, it was at once a critical and popular su... more »
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One of George Eliot's best-loved works, The Mill on the Floss is a portrait of the bonds of provincial life as seen through the eyes of the free-spirited Maggie Tulliver, who is torn between a code ... more »
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: Voice of The City, The Complete Life of John Hopkins, A Lickpenny Lover, D... more »
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This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the ess... more »
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One of the most important documents of American Political thought, Civil Disobedience eloquently states a position that has influenced the thinking of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and many figures of... more »
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The Borgias is a history of Roderigo Borgia's corrupt rise to power, purchasing the office of pope and assuming the name of Alexander VI. During his eleven-year reign, he and his family were respons... more »
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Beatrice Cenci was the son of Francesco Cenci, an aristocrat who, due to his violent temper and immoral behaviour, had found himself in trouble with the papal justice more than once. In Rome, they l... more »
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March 23, 1819: Karl-Ludwig Sand murdered August von Kotzebue, a playwright in the service of the Russian government, because of his criticism of the student associations and their nationalist yearn... more »
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Some royal names are predestined to misfortune: in France, there is the name "Henry". Henry I was poisoned, Henry II was killed in a tournament, Henry III and Henry IV were assassinated. In Scotland... more »
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It is possible that our reader, whose recollections may perhaps go back as far as the Restoration, will be surprised at the size of the frame required for the picture we are about to bring before hi... more »
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It was the Day of the Assumption in the year 1825; the sun had been up some four or five hours, and the long Via da Forcella, lighted from end to end by its slanting rays, cut the town in two, like ... more »
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On June 2, 1630, Father Urbain Grandier, the parish priest of St.-Pierre-du-Marché of Loudun, France, was accused of witchcraft by a group of Ursuline nuns. Grandier, a politically-influential pries... more »
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Stories and poems of 19th-century American author John S. Adams.
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The World and the Door; The Theory and the Hound; The Hypotheses of Failur... more »
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Small, graceful, and pretty, Marquise de Brinvilliers was also corrupt, ruthless, and cold-blooded. Her beautiful blue eyes charmed those around her, making them easy prey for her poison. Early in h... more »
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A man capitalizes on his remarkable resemblance to another man to steal the other's life and identity. [Celebrated Crimes is an 8-volume collection of 18 essays by Alexandre Dumas. Each essay is bas... more »
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About the end of the reign of the Emperor Paul I--that is to say, towards the middle of the first year of the nineteenth century--just as four o'clock in the afternoon was sounding from the church o... more »
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This is an open confession, true and particular account of a certain series of events leading up to a certain crime by Marie Leroux and her accomplice Claude Perreguad. This is a history of retribut... more »
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This unsolved puzzle of history was later incorporated by Dumas in one of the D'Artagnan Romances a section of the Vicomte de Bragelonne, to which it gave its name. But in this later form, the true ... more »
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The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who ma... more »
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