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Sons and Lovers
[en]
(1913)
by David Herbert Lawrence Description: The third published novel of D. H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece, tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and budding artist. Richard Aldington explains the semi-autobio... Categories: Novels - Romance - Psychology |
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Women in Love
[en]
(1920)
by David Herbert Lawrence Description: Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen siste... Categories: Novels - Romance - Sexuality |
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Frankenstein
[en]
(1818)
by Mary Shelley Description: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, w... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Horror - Gothic |
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The Rainbow
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(1915)
by David Herbert Lawrence Description: The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D. H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family, particularly focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the charac... Categories: Novels - Romance - Sexuality |
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Venus in Furs
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(1906)
by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch Description: Severin is so infatuated with Wanda that he requests to be treated as her slave and encourages her to treat him in progressively more degrading ways. At first Wanda does not want to, but later embr... Categories: Novels - Sexuality - Psychology |
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The Confessions
[en]
(1768)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Description: In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and ... Categories: Non-Fiction - Biography |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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(1885)
by Mark Twain Description: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is ... Categories: Novels - Young Readers - Adventure - Humor/Satire |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
[en]
(1876)
by Mark Twain Description: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Categories: Novels - Adventure |
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The Call of the Wild
[en]
(1903)
by Jack London Description: The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a seri... Categories: Novels - Adventure |
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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
[en]
(1749)
by John Cleland Description: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic... Categories: Novels - Sexuality |
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Heart of Darkness
[en]
(1902)
by Joseph Conrad Description: Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwo... Categories: Novels |
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Candide
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(1759)
by Voltaire Description: Candide, ou l'Optimisme (1759) is a French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, English translations of which have been titled Candide: Or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: Or, The Op... Categories: Novels - Philosophy |
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On the Duty of Civil Disobediance
[en]
(1849)
by Henry David Thoreau Description: Thoreau wrote his famous essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, as a protest against an unjust but popular war and the immoral but popular institution of slave-owning. Categories: Non-Fiction - Essay - Politics |
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Manifesto of the Communist Party
[en]
(1848)
by Karl Marx - Friedrich Engels Description: Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), often referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's mos... Categories: Non-Fiction - Politics |
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
[en]
(1928)
by David Herbert Lawrence Description: Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928. Printed privately in Florence in 1928, it was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1960 (other than in an underground editi... Categories: Novels - Sexuality |
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Ulysses
[en]
(1922)
by James Joyce Description: Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2... Categories: Novels - Sexuality |
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
[en]
(1776)
by Adam Smith Description: Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capit... Categories: Non-Fiction - Science - Politics |
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Sanin
[en]
(1907)
by Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev Description: The hero of Artsybashev's novel exhibits a set of new values to be contrasted with the morality of the older Russian intelligentsia. Sanin is an attractive, clever, powerful, life-loving man who is... Categories: Novels |
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