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Recommendations... Almayer's Folly
by Joseph Conrad
Conrad's first novel recounts the struggles of a Dutch merchant whose dreams are undermined by his own greed and prejudice. It is the tale of a man's inability to escape his self-delusion and of the tragic results.
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| |  Bacchae
by Euripides
Classic Greek tragedy concerns the catastrophe that ensues when the King of Thebes imprisons Dionysus and attempts to suppress his cult. Striking scenes, frenzied emotion, and choral songs of power and beauty.
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 A Pair of Silk Stockings
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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| |  Blake's Selected Poems
by William Blake
Features 104 of Blake's poems: "A Song of Liberty," "The Argument," "Proverbs of Hell," "The Mental Traveller," "The Land of Dreams," "To the Evening Star" and many more.
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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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| |  Beowulf
by R. K. Gordon
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
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Products in Reading Books | | |  | The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Transparently based on the lives of Fitzgerald and his beautiful wife, Zelda, this novel follows the hedonistic pursuits of glittering socialites Anthony and Gloria Patch into moral and financial bankruptcy.
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|  | Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments
by Richard F. Burton
Six enchanting tales told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution: "Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman;" "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp;" "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," and 3 others.
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