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Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra is certainly Nietzsche's most controversial and probably his most important work. The concepts that "God is Dead" and "Eternal Recurrence" with their attendant ramifications are major features of this work. Highly original and inventive, Thus Spake Zarathustra def...
Published: 1885 | Genre: Non-Fiction, Philosophy
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Ann Veronica
H. G. Wells
Ann Veronica, written by legendary author H. G. Wells is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Ann Veronica is required reading for various courses and curriculum's. And for othe...
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Bouvard and Pécuchet
Gustave Flaubert
Nowhere do Flaubert's explorations of the relation of signs to the objects they signify reach a more thorough study than in this work. Bouvard and Pécuchet systematically confuse signs and symbols with reality, an assumption that causes them much suffering, as it does for Emma Bovary an...
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux
Even if Hercule Poirot had been born a Frenchman, not a Belgian, he would have to take second place in detection to Joseph Rouletabille, the brilliant young sleuth created by Gaston Leroux. Here, in his first and most baffling case, the eighteen year old reporter astounds readers with h...
Published: 1907 | Genre: Crime, Mystery & Detective
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Pierre and Jean
Guy de Maupassant
Henry James's admiration for "this masterly little novel" has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological novel. It i...
Published: 1888 | Genre: Fiction
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Wulf the Saxon
G. A. Henty
From the creator of exciting, historically accurate fiction for young readers comes this tale of loyalty and courage in 11th-century Britain. Wulf and his best friend, Beorn, fight bravely for their Saxon king capturing castles, rescuing shipwrecked survivors, repelling Viking invaders,...
Published: 1895 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction, Juvenile Fiction
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The Antichrist
Friedrich Nietzsche
This work is both an unrestrained attack on Christianity and a further exposition of Nietzsche's will-to-power philosophy so dramatically presented in Zarathustra. Christianity, says Nietzsche, represents "everything weak, low, and botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism towards...
Published: 1888 | Genre: Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Religion
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Ralestone Luck
Andre Norton
Rupurt Raleston and his siblings, Richanda and Valerius, return to their ancestral home, Pirate's Haven. It is the only thing they have left and they believe that there are hidden treasures that will save them from destitution. Amongst these treasures is rumoured to include an ancestral...
Published: 1938 | Genre: Crime, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery & Detective
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The American Crisis
Thomas Paine
"The American Crisis was a series of pamphlets published in London from 1776-1783 during the American Revolution by revolutionary author Thomas Paine. It decried British actions and Loyalists, offering support to the Patriot cause. The first of these four pamphlets was published on Dece...
Published: 1783 | Genre: Political
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The Chessmen of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A freak storm on Mars throws Tara, Princess of Helium and beautiful daughter of John Carter, wildly off course after she embarks on an imprudent flight. Gahan, Jed of Gathol, her new admirer, takes off in pursuit and they soon find themselves in a land of bodies without heads and heads ...
Published: 1922 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
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The Magician
W. Somerset Maugham
The Magician is one of Somerset Maughams most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siècle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married. ...
Published: 1908 | Genre: Horror
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Martin Rattler
R. M. Ballantyne
Martin Rattler was a very bad boy. At least his aunt, Mrs. Dorothy Grumbit, said so; and certainly she ought to have known, if anybody should, for Martin lived with her, and was, as she herself expressed it, "the bane of her existence; the very torment of her life." No doubt of it whate...
Published: 1858 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Nautical
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The Young Fur Traders
R. M. Ballantyne
Follows the adventures of a young man called Charles Kennedy. Loosely autobiographical account of Ballantyne's own time with the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada. Its success prompted a series of excellent stories of adventure for the young with which this prolific Scottish author's name ...
Published: 1856 | Genre: Action & Adventure
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Bartleby, The Scrivener
Herman Melville
Bartleby the Scrivener is the story of a quiet, hard working legal copyist who works in an office in the Wall Street area of New York City. One day Bartleby declines the assignment his employer gives him with the inscrutable "I would prefer not." The utterance of this remark sets off a ...
Published: 1853 | Genre: Short Stories
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Plague Ship
Andre Norton
The tramp-freighter spaceship Solar Queen had exclusive trading rights to Sargol and its fabulous gems. But the crew's bravery and resourcefulness strained to the breaking point as they met Sargol's three challenges: the enigmatic obstinancy of the planet's catlike natives, ruthless inc...
Published: 1956 | Genre: Science Fiction
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When the Sleeper Wakes
H. G. Wells
The Sleeper is just an ordinary man, no one special, just someone going about his everyday business. Until one day he awakes, and finds that the world around him has changed. No longer a nobody, he has been catapulted into the unenviable position of a pawn in a dangerous conspiracy wher...
Published: 1899 | Genre: Science Fiction
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The Dog Crusoe and His Master
R. M. Ballantyne
Who doesn't like a story that involves a great dog and his young master and friends? In this book you will share their action packed journey and adventures as they wander through the Western prairies with a mission to bring peace between the white population and the assorted Indian trib...
Published: 1894 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction
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Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass is a sequel of sorts to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published seven years after in 1872. Alice, now slightly older, walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House and immediately becomes involved in a strange game of chess. Soon, she is exploring the...
Published: 1871 | Genre: Fantasy, Juvenile Fiction
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The Divine Comedy: Hell
Dante
The first part of Dante's Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Francis Cary), the "Inferno" (or "Hell") begins on the night before Good Friday in the year 1300, "halfway along our life's path". Dante is thirty-five years old, half of the biblical life expectancy of 70, lost in a dark wood...
Published: 1892 | Genre: Poetry
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Pollyanna Grows Up
Eleanor H. Porter
Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad with her new Uncle, Dr. Chilton. While in Boston, Pollyanna meets new friends and has sever...
Published: 1915 | Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Romance