 Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Other Stories
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This brilliant anthology includes 6 of Fitzgerald's most popular stories: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," the title tale, "The Offshore Pirate," "The Ice Palace," "The Jelly Bean," and "May Day."
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Definitive novel of the "Lost Generation" focuses on the coming of age of Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student. Fitzgerald's first novel and an immediate, spectacular success. Note.
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 Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell
A sensitive and moving portrait of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s, Cranford recounts the events and activities in the lives of a group of spinsters and widows.
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by Edith Wharton
Impoverished but well-born, Lily Bart must secure her future by acquiring a wealthy husband. A romantic indiscretion, however, initiates her downfall, which climaxes in a maelstrom of social disasters.
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 Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
An erotic celebration of life, this classic tale of love and discovery pits the paralyzed and callous Clifford Chatterley against his indecisive wife and her persuasive lover, the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors.
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by Jane Austen
Dependent on the benevolence of her aristocratic relatives, young Fanny Price develops into the moral center of a family gone astray. An entertaining study of the interplay between manners, education, and ethics.
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by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Literature's greatest detective team investigates a dozen of their best-known cases, including "The Speckled Band," "The Red-Headed League," The Five Orange Pips," and "A Scandal in Bohemia."
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 The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Deeply moving study of the tyrannical and rigid requirements of New York high society in the late 19th century and the effect of those strictures on the lives of three people.
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by Anne Bronte
Drawn from Brontë's own troubled life, this novel exposes the hardships of a governess's world and offers a rare opportunity to hear the voice of a 19th-century working woman.
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 Alexander's Bridge
by Willa Cather
Construction engineer Bartley Alexander is a troubled, middle-aged man torn between his cold American wife and an alluring mistress in London who has helped him recapture his youth and sense of freedom.
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by Henry James
Complex tale of self-discovery traces the path of an aging idealist from America to Paris, where his intentions of persuading his young charge to return home take an unexpected turn.
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 Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
An eccentric Englishman accepts a challenge to circle the globe with unprecedented speed. Exotic locales, seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and comic relief provide a fantastic blend of adventure, entertainment, and suspense.
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by Kate Chopin
First published in 1899, this controversial novel of a New Orleans wife's search for love outside a stifling marriage shocked readers. Today, it remains a first-rate narrative with superb characterization. New introductory Note.
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 Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
A personal crisis jars a middle-aged real estate agent from his complacency in this satire of middle-class American life. Sinclair Lewis' great novel offers a scathing portrait of the consequences of clinging to conventional values.
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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett
Three brothers, involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father, find their lives irrevocably altered as they are driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge.
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 The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
Classic of world drama concerns passing of semifeudal order in turn-of-the-century Russia, symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevskaya. Showcases Chekhov's rich sensitivities as an observer of human nature.
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by Douglas G. Greene
Thirteen classics devoted to genuine tales of ratiocination include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Charles Dickens' "Three Detective Anecdotes," and Jack London's "The Leopard Man Story." Introduction. Notes.
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 Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett
Supreme masterpiece tells the story of Raskolnikov, a student tormented by his own thoughts after he murders an old woman. Overwhelmed by guilt and terror, he confesses and goes to prison. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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by Edmond Rostand
A quarrelsome, hot-tempered, and unattractive swordsman falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful woman and woos her for a handsome but slow-witted suitor. A witty and eloquent drama.
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 Daisy Miller
by Henry James
Famous novella, rich in psychological and social insight, chronicles a young American girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences.
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by Henrik Ibsen
Ibsen's best-known play displays his genius for realistic prose drama. An expression of women's rights, the play climaxes when the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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 Don Juan in Hell: From Man and Superman
by George Bernard Shaw
This dream episode from Man and Superman forms a play within the play, consisting of a dramatic reading in which the Devil himself comments on heaven and hell, good and evil, and human purpose.
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by James Joyce
A fine and accessible introduction to the work of one of the 20th century's most influential writers, this collection features 15 tales, including a masterpiece of the short-story genre, "The Dead."
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 Emma
by Jane Austen
In one of Austen's finest novels, a lively young heiress takes up matchmaking and creates comic confusion for a social-climbing parson, a chatterbox spinster, an enigmatic Romeo, and others in a 19th-century English village.
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by Eugene O'Neill
Bold, expressionistic drama describing the fall of a self-proclaimed, plundering monarch of a West Indian island. Powerful work established O'Neill's reputation as one of America's most important dramatists.
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 An Enemy of the People
by Henrik Ibsen
When the famous and financially successful baths in his home town are contaminated, the local doctor insists they be shut down for expensive repairs, causing upheaval among the townsfolk.
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by Leo Tolstoy
Rich in detail, shrewdly observed, and vividly narrated, these 6 tales include "Three Deaths," "The Three Hermits," "The Devil," "Father Sergius," "Master and Man," and the title story.
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 Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
This tale of a passionate, independent woman and her three suitors explores Hardy's trademark themes: thwarted love, the inevitability of fate, and the encroachment of industrial society on rural life.
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by August Strindberg
Highly emotional study of marital upheaval and a no-holds-barred struggle between man and woman. One of the most gripping psychological dramas of modern theater. Biographical Note.
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 Five Great Greek Tragedies
by Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus
Features Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (translated by George Thomson). Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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by Jack London
Five exciting tales that epitomize Jack London's mastery of the adventure story: "The White Silence," "In a Far Country," "An Odyssey of the North," "The Seed of McCoy," and "The Mexican." Publisher's Note.
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by O. Henry
Sixteen captivating stories by one of America's most popular storytellers. Included are such classics as "The Gift of the Magi," "The Last Leaf," and "The Ransom of Red Chief." Publisher's Note. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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 The Gold-Bug and Other Tales
by Edgar Allan Poe
Nine gripping tales by the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum," 6 others. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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by Paul Negri
Features 19 gems in the American short-story tradition, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, plus stories by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Twain, others.
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 Great English Short Stories
by Paul Negri
First-rate selections include Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels," James' "Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad," Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel," and tales by Saki, Kipling, Lawrence, Trollope, Stevenson, and others.
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by Paul Negri
Features 12 classic tales, including "The Necklace" (Maupassant); "The Unknown Masterpiece" (Balzac); "The Attack on the Mill" (Zola); plus works by Gide, Daudet, and 7 other authors.
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 Great German Short Stories
by Evan Bates
Translations of 8 masterpieces by writers who defined the modern German short story. Includes works by Schnitzler, Kleist, Kafka, Mann, Hauptmann, Rilke, Hoffmann, and Brentano.
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by Charles Dickens
Orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dreams of becoming a gentleman — and one day finds himself in possession of "great expectations." Dickens' finest novel.
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 Great Irish Short Stories
by Evan Bates
Features 13 captivating tales, from the early Irish prose fiction of Maria Edgeworth and William Carleton to the 20th-century works of William Butler Yeats, James Stephens, James Joyce, Seumas O'Kelly, and Liam O'Flaherty.
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by Paul Negri
This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories — each just six or fewer pages in length — features popular tales by Kafka, Poe, Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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 Great Short Stories by American Women
by Candace Ward
Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.
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by Joseph Conrad
Dark allegory of a journey up the Congo River and the narrator's encounter with the mysterious Mr. Kurtz. Masterly blend of adventure, character study, psychological penetration. For many, Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.
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 Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
This dark psychological drama depicts the evil machinations of a ruthless, nihilistic heroine. Readers will discover an exploration of the nature of evil and the tragedy that lies in human frailty.
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by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Greedy Colonel Pyncheon builds his mansion on ill-gotten ground, setting the stage for generations of suffering. Years later, a country cousin and young boarder attempt to reverse the tide of misfortunes surrounding the house.
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 Howards End
by E. M. Forster
The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist — all intersect at an estate called Howards End.
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by Oscar Wilde
Scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. The dialogue between young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale keeps the action brisk.
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 The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Splendid novel of mid-19th-century Russian manners, morals, and philosophy focuses on a nobleman whose gentle, child-like nature has earned him the nickname of "the idiot."
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by Oscar Wilde
Wilde's witty and buoyant comedy of manners, filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams, reprinted from an authoritative British edition. Considered Wilde's most perfect work. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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 Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
Written in 1847, Jane Eyre tells the tale of an orphan girl's progress from the custody of cruel relatives to an oppressive boarding school and its culmination in a troubled career as a governess. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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by Oscar Wilde
Sparkling repartee, epigrams, and dialogue enliven this witty Victorian comedy of manners in which a model of social rectitude learns from an unexpected source the difference between true morality and its appearance.
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by Kate Chopin
From the author of The Awakening comes this collection, which features 24 distinctive tales of Southern life, filled with fascinating characters, idiosyncratic customs, and sometimes shocking details.
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 Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
Bored and unhappy in a lifeless marriage, Emma Bovary yearns to escape from the dull circumstances of provincial life. Powerful, deeply moving examination of the moral degeneration of a middle-class Frenchwoman.
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by Thomas Hardy
A drunken laborer sells his wife and child and spends his life trying to atone for his wrongdoing — while clinging to his social status. A spellbinding portrayal of ambition, rivalry, revenge, and repentance.
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 The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
The tale of Maggie Tulliver explores the conflicts of love and loyalty and the friction between desire and moral responsibility in an accurate, evocative depiction of English rural life.
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by Moličre
One of the best of Molière's comedies, focusing on a man who is quick to criticize the faults of others, yet remains blind to his own. Publisher's Note.
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 Miss Julie
by August Strindberg
One of the greatest classics of modern theater concerns a willful young aristocrat's seduction of her father's valet during a Midsummer's Eve celebration. Complete with Strindberg's highly-regarded critical preface.
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by Virginia Woolf
Features "A Haunted House," "A Society," "An Unwritten Novel," "The String Quartet," "Blue & Green," "Kew Gardens," two more. An excellent entree into the larger body of Woolf's work.
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 My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
Splendid early novel (1918) evokes the Nebraska prairie life of the author's childhood, and touchingly commemorates the spirit and courage of the immigrant pioneers who settled the land.
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by Mark Twain
Includes 4 memorable selections spanning the career of famed American humorist: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The £1,000,000 Bank Note," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," and "The Mysterious Stranger."
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 The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by Charles Dickens
Dickens' last novel, a mystery unfinished at his death, has become all the more tantalizing to avid readers who have tried to provide a solution to the mystifying disappearance of Edwin Drood.
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by Guy de Maupassant
Nine memorable classics: "Ball of Fat," "The Necklace," "A Piece of String," "Mme. Tellier's Establishment," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "Miss Harriet," "A Way to Wealth," "My Uncle Jules," and "The Horla."
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 Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
Spirited comedy of manners begins when Catherine Morland meets and falls in love with a young clergyman and is invited to be a guest at Northanger Abbey, the family's country estate.
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by Langston Hughes
Poet Langston Hughes' only novel, a coming-of-age tale that unfolds amid an African-American family in rural Kansas, explores the dilemmas of life in a racially divided society.
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 O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
In this landmark of American fiction, Cather tells the story of young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they have struggled to farm.
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by Ambrose Bierce
This modestly priced volume includes 23 stories in all — many of Bierce's best, from the Civil War classic "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" to the renowned horror tale "The Moonlit Road."
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 On Dreams
by Sigmund Freud, M. D. Eder
Concise, accessible version of the master's theory of dreams as disguised wish fulfillment. Contrasts scientific, popular views; considers origins, mental mechanisms.
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by Kate Chopin
Includes 9 masterful portraits of black and white inhabitants of Louisiana's bayou and urban areas. Written with grace, delicate humor, and a keen understanding of the female psyche.
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 Peer Gynt
by Henrik Ibsen
Masterpiece of world drama explores the virtues and vices common to all humanity as it follows a charming but arrogant young man through his life-long adventures.
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by Oscar Wilde
Celebrated novel involves a handsome young Londoner who sinks into a life of depravity. His body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recent portrait reflects the ravages of his crime and sensuality.
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 The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
A young American travels to Europe where her naivete — and recent inheritance — attracts many suitors. James's masterpiece examines the themes of freedom, sexuality, and betrayal.
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by Jane Austen
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, an effervescent tale of rural romance transformed by Jane Austen's art into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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 Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
A success on the stage, a popular film, and a musical hit (My Fair Lady), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language.
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by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Eight vivid, poignant tales of self-reliant New England women. Well-known title story plus "A New England Nun," "Old Woman Magoun," "Gentian," "One Good Time," plus 3 others.
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 A Room with a View
by E.M. Forster
British social comedy examines a young heroine's struggle against Victorian attitudes as she rejects the man her family has encouraged her to marry and chooses, instead, a socially unsuitable fellow she met on holiday in Italy.
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by William Shakespeare
Tragic tale of star-crossed lovers, feuding families and timeless passion contains some of Shakespeare's most beautiful and lyrical love poetry. Complete, unabridged text with explanatory footnotes.
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 The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
With stark power and emotional depth, Hawthorne's masterpiece explores sin, guilt, and redemption in a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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by Jane Austen
Delicious comedy of manners concerning two sisters, who appear to have been deserted by the young men they had intended to marry. Humor, perception, incomparable prose.
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 A Sentimental Journey
by Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne drew upon his experiences in the 1760s to create this fictional travelogue. Generations have delighted in the narrative of Mr. Yorick, the Sentimental Traveller, who seeks tender moments but chiefly finds misadventures.
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by Oliver Goldsmith
Charming satire concerns a young lady who poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. Notes.
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 Silas Marner
by George Eliot
Classic of English literature recounts the engrossing story of a lonely and embittered old man and the orphaned child who helps him find love and hope.
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by Theodore Dreiser
The first masterpiece of the American naturalistic movement, Sister Carrie made its controversial debut in 1900. Condemned for its alleged immorality, the novel traces the fortunes of a small-town girl's rise from obscurity to fame.
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 Sons and Lovers
by D.H. Lawrence
Torn between his passion for two women as well as his abiding attachment to his mother, Paul Morel struggles with his desire to please everyone — particularly himself.
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by Edith Wharton
One of the first novels to deal honestly with a woman's sexual awakening, Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication, shattering conventional standards with candor and realism.
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 The Suicide Club
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Short story trilogy about a club for people who wish to end their lives chronicles the exploits of Prince Florizel and Colonel Geraldine as they travel incognito through some of 19th-century London's most dangerous haunts.
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by John Buchan
A young Scot stumbles upon a plot involving espionage, murder, and the future of Britain itself. This classic of suspense served as the basis for one of Hitchcock's most famous films.
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 The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
Gripping ghost story by great novelist depicts the sinister transformation of 2 innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. An elegantly told tale of unspoken horror and psychological terror.
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by Jack London
A classic adventure novel centering on a ferocious and magnificent creature, half dog, half wolf, through whose experiences we feel the essential savagery of wilderness life among animals and men.
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