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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. Thi...
Published: 1922 | Genre: Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Religion
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Second Variety
Philip K. Dick
An influential short story by Philip K. Dick first published in Space Science Fiction magazine, in May 1953. It is one of Dick's many stories in which nuclear war has rendered the Earth's surface to an uninhabitable, gray ash pile, and the only things remaining are killer robots. (sour...
Published: 1953 | Genre: Science Fiction, Short Stories
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The Efficiency Expert
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Efficiency Expert, an often overlooked by Burroughs' fans, is a cracking tale of young Jimmy Torrance, an upstanding college graduate in post-World War I Chicago who inadvertently rubs shoulders with mobsters and ends up framed for murder. Jimmy Torrance was a hero in college. A cha...
Published: 1921 | Genre: Romance, Thrillers & Suspense
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
The lights dim at the Paris Opera House. The exquisite Christine Daae enraptures the audience with her mellifluous voice. Immediately, Raoul de Chagny falls deeply in love. But the legend of the disfigured "opera ghost" haunts the performance, and as Raoul begins his pursuit of Christin...
Published: 1910 | Genre: Crime, Gothic Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Romance, Thrillers & Suspense
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Deathworld 2
Harry Harrison
Jason is kidnapped by a self-righteous enemy out to bring him to justice for his various crimes. He forces a crash-landing on a planet where the human population has regressed. The technology is extremely primitive and knowledge is split up among many small clans, each one jealously mon...
Published: 1963 | Genre: Science Fiction
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The Mucker
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The adventures of Billy Byrne, thug and gunman, in the underworld of Chicago and San Francisco, and on his mysterious cruise to the unexplored islands of the Pacific, make a yarn as strange and as vivid as even the famous Tarzan tales. A woman--"one o' them high-brow skirts"--taught Bil...
Published: 1914 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Romance
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The Four Feathers
A. E. W. Mason
English officer and gentleman Harry Feversham has wealth, social position, a beautiful fiancée, Ethne Eustace, and a brotherly bond with three close friends. But he also harbors a dark secret. Though he is expected to continue his family’s proud tradition of military service, he cannot ...
Published: 1902 | Genre: Action & Adventure, War & Military
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She
H. Rider Haggard
Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of tho...
Published: 1887 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Gothic Fiction, Romance
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Planet of the Damned
Harry Harrison
Dis was a harsh, inhospitable, dangerous place and the Magter made it worse. They might have been human once -- but they were something else now. The Magter had only one desire -- to kill everything, themselves, their planet, the universe if they could. Brion Brandd was sent in at the e...
Published: 1962 | Genre: Science Fiction
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The Outlaw of Torn
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The kidnapped prince is trained to fight, so he will someday kill his own father--the king. But the plan goes awry as the prince befriends an old monk who teaches him the rules of chivalry. A thrilling and unusual tale from the author of Tarzan. Newly designed and typeset for easy readi...
Published: 1914 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction
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The Confidence-Man
Herman Melville
Long considered Melville's strangest novel, The Confidence-Man is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century America. A shape-shifting Confidence-Man approaches passengers on a Mississippi River steamboat and, winning over his not-quite-innocent vic...
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At the Villa Rose
A. E. W. Mason
In this thriller by A.E.W. Mason, Inspector Hanaud goes to the Villa Rose, where a wealthy widow has been cruelly murdered for her jewels. At the Villa Rose is Mason and his cunning detective 'Hanaud' at their best. Missing jewels; high adventure some one hundred and fifty kilometres fr...
Published: 1910 | Genre: Crime
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Erling the Bold
R. M. Ballantyne
This is a tale of a Sea-rover, or Viking as they're called. In the author's own words, "The present tale is founded chiefly on the information conveyed in that most interesting work by Snorro Sturleson "The Heimskringla, or Chronicles of the Kings of Norway." It is translated from the I...
Published: 1869 | Genre: Action & Adventure
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The Country of the Blind
H. G. Wells
Six entertaining short stories from the foremost science fiction writer of his time. Includes "The Star," a gripping tale about a massive celestial object hurtling towards the Earth, as well as "The New Accelerator," "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes," "Under the Knife," and 2 more.
Published: 1904 | Genre: Short Stories
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Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
A scathing and powerful critique of philosophy, religion and science. Here Nietzsche presents us with problems and challenges that are as troubling as they are inspiring, while at the same time outlining the virtues, ideas, and practices which will characterise the philosophy of the fut...
Published: 1886 | Genre: Non-Fiction, Philosophy
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Blue Lights
R. M. Ballantyne
Miles Milton is a prodigal. He struggles with authority and, like the prodigal son in Scripture, must learn the lessons of life the hard way. Through a series of events, he joins the British army for the war in the Sudan, thinking he will experience the good life of adventure and proudl...
Published: 1888 | Genre: Action & Adventure, War & Military
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Star Hunter
Andre Norton
Somewhere on the jungle world of Jumala, there is a man in hiding -- a man whose mind has been reconditioned with another's brain pattern and for whom there is a fabulous reward. Star Hunter is the thrilling account of an other-worldly game of hide-and-seek between a man who does not kn...
Published: 1961 | Genre: Science Fiction
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The Explorer
W. Somerset Maugham
A story of the proud Allertons whose fortune has been squandered, and whose three-hundred-year estate Hamlyn's Purlieu stands to be lost to the family. Lucy and George Allerton, brother and sister, are resolved to overcome the mistakes of their father, Fred Allerton. A powerful explorat...
Published: 1908 | Genre: Fiction
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The Settler and the Savage
R. M. Ballantyne
Ruyter quietly told the savage that he would then have to take the consequences, and urged, in addition, that it was folly to suppose the Kafirs were in a condition to make war on the white men just then. It was barely a year since they had been totally routed and driven across the Grea...
Published: 1877 | Genre: Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction
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The Case Of Wagner
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Case Against Wagner was one Nietzsche's last books, and his wittiest. In Wagner's music, in his doctrine, in his whole concept of art, Nietzsche saw the confirmation, the promotion, even the encouragement, of that decadence and degeneration which is now rampant in Europe; and it is ...
Published: 1888 | Genre: Essays