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Plain Tales from the Hills
Rudyard Kipling
Set and published during the time of the British Raj, a time of subalterns and tea planters, the 40 stories in Plain Tales From The Hills are played out under an unforgiving sun, revealing the deceit, faithlessness, shallowness, despair, mistrust, hate, and petty jealousies rife amongst...
Published: 1888 | Genre: Fiction, Short Stories
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, ...
Published: 1916 | Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Fiction
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Precious Bane
Mary Webb
Narrated by the central character Prue Sarn, whose life is blighted by having a harelip. Only the weaver, Kester Woodseaves, perceives her inner beauty but Prue cannot believe herself worthy of him. Prue is wrongly accused of murder and only one man can save her and take her away to the...
Published: 1924 | Genre: Fiction
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Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring...
Published: 1853 | Genre: Classic Literature, Fiction, Political Science / Social Criticism
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Once a Week
A. A. Milne
Once A Week is a collection of short stories and vignettes by A. A. Milne originally published in Punch. Stories included are; The Heir, Winter Sport, A Baker's Dozen, Getting Married, Home Affairs, Other People's Houses, Burlesques, Merely Players and The Men Who Succeed. The collectio...
Published: 1914 | Genre: Short Stories
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Poor Folk
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters these are! Makar Dievushkin Alexievitch is a copy writer, barely squeaking by; Barbara Dobroselova Alexievna works as a seamstress, and both face the sort of e...
Published: 1846 | Genre: Fiction
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Volume 5
Edward Gibbon
In this fifth of seven volumes, readers will find Chapter 45 ("State of Italy Under the Lombards") through Chapter 51 ("Conquests by the Arabs"), which cover the reign of Justin II; the Lombards' conquest of Italy; the Franks' conquest of Italy; the reign of Tiberius II; the life of Gre...
Published: 1789 | Genre: History
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A Prefect's Uncle
P. G. Wodehouse
One of Wodehouse's early novels set in an English public school, a school story that revolves around cricket, stolen money, and an embarrassing uncle (who happens to be younger than his nephew) who enrolls in in his school. The arrival of Farnie at Beckford College brings much excitemen...
Published: 1903 | Genre: Humour, Juvenile Fiction
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White Jacket
Herman Melville
One of Melville’s most popular novels during his lifetime—and the subject of renewed interest in recent decades—White-Jacket is both a brisk sea adventure and a powerful social critique, which also contains some of Melville's best black humor (particularly the hilarious Surgeon of the F...
Published: 1850 | Genre: Historical Fiction, Nautical
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Boyhood
Leo Tolstoy
In the 1850s Tolstoy also began his literary career with an autobiographical trilogy: Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth. This, the second novel in the trilogy, tells of the early part of his life, when he was living happily with his family in the countryside. It also portrays his first love...
Published: 1854 | Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Non-Fiction
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A Daughter of the Snows
Jack London
Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie, who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St...
Published: 1902 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Fiction
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The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
Long before Michael Crichton's high-tech dinosaurs roamed the bestseller lists, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle envisioned an isolated land of prehistoric life that exists in the 20th century. When Ed Malone, a hotheaded journalist with an insatiable thirst for adventure, is sent to interview th...
Published: 1912 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Fantasy
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The Pothunters
P. G. Wodehouse
When someone breaks into the cricket pavilion and steals two silver cups, the whole school is agog. Could it possibly be an inside job? Nothing less than the honour of St Austin's is at stake, not to mention the reputation of Jim Thomson, an excellent athlete with a talent for being in ...
Published: 1902 | Genre: Humour
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The Red House Mystery
A. A. Milne
Droll, finely crafted whodunit from A. A. Milne (author of Winnie-the-Pooh), one of England’s most popular writer’s, sparkles with witty dialogue, deft plotting, and an amusing cast of characters. Amateur detectives Antony Gillingham and his chum Bill Beverley investigate the disappeara...
Published: 1922 | Genre: Mystery & Detective
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St. Ives
Robert Louis Stevenson
The irreverent tale revolves around the exploits of Captain Jacques St. Ives who is captured by the British and thrown in jail. While there, he meets the droll Miss Gilchrist and her lovely niece, Flora, who takes an interest in the prisoner. For Jacques and Flora, it's love at first si...
Published: 1897 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Romance
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens
Dickens turns his satirical eye on America in "Martin Chuzzlewit", when young Martin embarks on a voyage that is destined to affect the fortunes of his family and his love. A story about the contrasting destinies of two descendants of the brothers Chuzzlewit, both born and bred to the s...
Published: 1844 | Genre: Classic Literature, Fiction, Political Science / Social Criticism
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Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One of the most profound and most unsettling works of modern literature, Notes from Underground remains a cultural and literary watershed. In these pages Dostoevsky unflinchingly examines the dark, mysterious depths of the human heart. The Underground Man so chillingly depicted here has...
Published: 1864 | Genre: Fiction
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Almayer's Folly
Joseph Conrad
Lush prose and penetrating psychological insight infuse Conrad's first novel with the qualities that have made him one of the most popular and most studied writers in English literature. The novel chronicles the tragic decline of a Dutch merchant isolated in 19th-century Borneo, the mac...
Published: 1895 | Genre: Fiction
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne
At once endlessly facetious and highly serious, Sterne's great comic novel contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature--including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Parson Yorick, and Dr. Slop--and boasts one of the most innovative and whimsical narrative sty...
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The Little White Bird
J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird is a series of short episodes with tones ranging from fantasy and whimsy to social comedy with dark aggressive undertonesm. It accounts the narrator's day to day activities in London of its day, and fanciful tales set in Kensington Gardens and elsewhere. This book ...
Published: 1902 | Genre: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fantasy