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 Uncle Silas
by J. Sheridan LeFanu
This true Gothic mystery novel is considered by many to be the best of the period. It is not only wonderfully written, skillfully plotted, and peopled with interesting characters, it is incredibly frightening.
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| |  The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy
This monumental trilogy by the Nobel Prize–winning author chronicles the stormy lives of three generations of an upper-middle-class London family obsessed with money and respectability.
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 Great Spanish Literature
by Dover
Spanish Stories/Cuentos Españoles, 13 tales from Cervantes to Borges; First Spanish Reader, with works based on the writings of Don Juan Manuel and more; Spanish Poetry/Poesía Española, four centuries of Spanish verse.
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| |  Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
by William Graham Sumner
Century-old classic provides incisive look at manners, customs, mores, and morals from ancient Greece and Rome, Africa, Australia, Melanesia, Japan, China, India, as well as medieval Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and modern Western civilization.
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 Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories
by P. G. Wodehouse
Splendid collection contains first 8 stories featuring Bertie Wooster, the deliciously dim aristocrat and Jeeves, his brainy, imperturbable manservant. Also, the complete Reggie Pepper (Bertie's prototype) series.
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| |  The Flying Inn
by G. K. Chesterton
Hilarious romp in which pub owner Humphrey Hump and friend take to the road in a donkey cart filled with rum and cheese, inveighing against Prohibition and other "oppressive forms of modernity."
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| Products in Literature | | |  | The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton
Twelve of the popular Father Brown mysteries appear in this copiously annotated edition. Includes "The Blue Cross," "The Hammer of God," "The Eye of Apollo," and more.
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|  | The Art of Literature
by Arthur Schopenhauer, T. Bailey Saunders
Profound and witty, these essays by the noted philosopher analyze elements of literature and the literary scene. Schopenhauer's observations on style, criticism, reputation, and genius constitute a handbook on writing of enduring value.
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|  | Best Remembered Poems
by Martin Gardner
The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American verse range from famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman and Frost to less well-known poets.
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| |  | The Brothers Karamazov
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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|  | Chinese Poems
by Arthur Waley
Scores of poems in incomparable translations by brilliant British sinologist: "16 Songs of Courtship," "Hymn to the Fallen," "Ballad of Mulan," more, including many works by the poet Po Chü-I.
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|  | Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
by Shikibu Murasaki
Personal thoughts and commentaries of 3 amazing, well-educated ladies provide an extraordinary glimpse of daily activities and attitudes of the upper classes in ancient Japan. Introduction by noted American poet Amy Lowell. 14 illustrations.
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|  | A Dictionary of Symbols
by J. E. Cirlot
A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
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| | Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories
by P. G. Wodehouse
Splendid collection contains first 8 stories featuring Bertie Wooster, the deliciously dim aristocrat and Jeeves, his brainy, imperturbable manservant. Also, the complete Reggie Pepper (Bertie's prototype) series.
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| | The Flying Inn
by G. K. Chesterton
Hilarious romp in which pub owner Humphrey Hump and friend take to the road in a donkey cart filled with rum and cheese, inveighing against Prohibition and other "oppressive forms of modernity."
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| | Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
by William Graham Sumner
Century-old classic provides incisive look at manners, customs, mores, and morals from ancient Greece and Rome, Africa, Australia, Melanesia, Japan, China, India, as well as medieval Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and modern Western civilization.
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| | The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy
This monumental trilogy by the Nobel Prize–winning author chronicles the stormy lives of three generations of an upper-middle-class London family obsessed with money and respectability.
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| | Great Spanish Literature
by Dover
Spanish Stories/Cuentos Españoles, 13 tales from Cervantes to Borges; First Spanish Reader, with works based on the writings of Don Juan Manuel and more; Spanish Poetry/Poesía Española, four centuries of Spanish verse.
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|  | Great Tales of Terror
by S. T. Joshi
These 23 chilling tales tell of the returning dead, haunted places, and weird creatures by such masters of the genre as Lafcadio Hearn, Algernon Blackwood, and J. Sheridan LeFanu.
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|  | Gösta Berling's Saga
by Selma Lagerlöf
When a country pastor's career comes to an end, he falls in with vagrant Swedish cavaliers and enters into a power struggle with the richest woman in the province.
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|  | Japanese Love Poems: Selections from the Manyoshu
by Evan Bates
This original selection of verses from the time-honored collection of Japanese poetry reflect the many facets of love, from paeans to conjugal love to descriptions of fierce competition for spouses. Text is in English only.
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|  | The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
by Robert W. Chambers, E. F. Bleiler
A milestone of American supernatural fiction from the author who has been hailed as the link between Poe and Stephen King. 12 gripping stories, with an introduction by E. F. Bleiler.
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|  | The New Atlantis and The City of the Sun: Two Classic Utopias
by Francis Bacon, Tomasso Campanella
Campanella was a student of logic and physics; Bacon focused on politics and philosophy — but despite their authors' differences, each of these meditations on the ideal society reflects the spirit and substance of 17th-century philosophy.
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| |  | A Princess of Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
In this landmark novel by the creator of Tarzan, a Civil War veteran is transported to the red planet, where he must elude giant green barbarians to rescue a princess. Fantasy, adventure, and science fiction combined.
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