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Democracy in America
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to the Unit..
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Democracy: An American Novel
Democracy: An American Novel is one of the first novels about political power and how to get it, how..
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Diary of a Madman
Diary of a Madman (1835) is a farcical short story that ranks with “The Overcoat” and “The Nose” as..
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Don Quixote, the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of LaMancha, is a Spanish novel by Mig..
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth in the Oz series of books written by L. Frank Baum. Illus..
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Dracula
Our culture is fascinated by zombies; always has been. Vampire novels, films and television shows ab..
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Elmer Gantry
"Elmer Gantry" explores the life of its charismatic and opportunistic protagonist, Elmer Gantry. Set..
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Emerson Essays: Nature, The First Series, The Second Series
This volume aggregates the essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson first collected in Nature (1837), Essays: T..
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Emma
Published in three volumes in 1815, Emma was the second to last of Jane Austen’s novels, and treats ..
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Eudemian Ethics
Aristotle coined the term “ethics” to define a field of study first undertaken by Socrates and Plato..
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Far From The Madding Crowd
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1874, centers on its hero..
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Faust
The theme of making a deal with the devil is one of the most enduring in all art forms. Most treatme..
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Flowers of Evil
The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire influential o..
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the wife of Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, is the author of the t..
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a comic novel that follows the escapades and dalliances of a young blond..
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations was Dickens’s thirteenth and penultimate novel, written when he was at the height..
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
Grimm’s Fairy Tales is a collection of German fairy tales first published by brothers Jacob and Wilh..
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Gulliver's Travels
George Orwell called Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift one of the six essential works in all of l..
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Hard Times
Hard Times, Charles Dickens’s tenth novel, was published in 1854 after having been serialized that s..
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Heart of Darkness
Aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, Marlow, the narrator of Heart of Darkness, tells a story..
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His Last Bow
His Last Bow is the fourth collection of stories featuring the master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, publis..
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How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York by Jacob Riis was a ground-breakin..
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Howards End
Howards End intertwines the lives of three families in early 20th century England. The idealistic an..
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In the Penal Colony
“In the Penal Colony” centers on the use of an unusual instrument of punishment invented ..
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The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which articulated the rights of citizens..
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The Awakening
The Awakening is one of the first American novels that focused on women’s issues and is now seen as ..
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The Business of Being a Woman
From the author's introduction..."The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain..
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The Subjection of Women
In his essay “On the Subjection of Women” John Stuart Mill wrote at length about the moral, legal an..
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is a groundbreaking feminist trea..
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Published in 1845, Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in th..
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