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Historical

Mark Twain's "The Jumping Frog : In English, then in French, then clawed back into the civilized language once more by patient unremunerated toil" (1865), also known as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras...

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Short Stories

Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

by Samuel Johnson

Introduced by Ian McGowan. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published...

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Travel

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books; a second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in...

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Poetry

Les Souffrances du jeune Werther

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Les Souffrances du jeune Werther (en allemand Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), est un roman épistolaire de Goethe. La première édition est parue en 1774 ; une version remaniée et légèrement augmentée...

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Literary

Fondements de la métaphysique des moeurs

by Emmanuel Kant

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Philosophy

Bérénice

by Jean Racine

Bérénice est une tragédie en cinq actes (comportant respectivement 5, 5, 4, 8 et 7 scènes) et en vers (1506 alexandrins) de Racine représentée pour la première fois le 21 novembre 1670 à l’Hôtel de...

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Drama

Discours de la méthode

by René Descartes

Le Discours de la méthode, publié en 1637, est le premier texte philosophique écrit par René Descartes et le premier ouvrage qui traite du sujet en langue française (par opposition à la tradition scientifique...

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Philosophy

Ainsi Parlait Zarathoustra

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Livre de tous les superlatifs, le Zarathoustra de Nietzsche continue de fasciner, 120 ans après sa première publication. Par son écriture, d'abord, qui rappelle, à bien des égards, la Bible et sa dimension...

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Philosophy

The Machine Stops

by E. M. Forster

The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell',...

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Science Fiction

Short Stories

Right Ho, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

Right Ho, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves. It also features a host of other recurring Wodehouse...

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Humorous

Deathworld

by Harry Harrison

Some planet in the galaxy must—by definition—be the toughest, meanest, nastiest of all. If Pyrrus wasn't it ... it was an awfully good approximation!

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Science Fiction

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes...

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Gothic

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847. Its representation of the underside of domestic life...

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The Mysteries of Udolpho

by Ann Radcliffe

Follow the fortunes of Emily St. Aubert who suffers, among other misadventures, the death of her father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle, and the machinations of an Italian brigand. Considered by many...

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Mystery & Detective

Gothic

Anne of Green Gables

Anne Shirley Series #1

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Marilla Cuthbert and Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia as a helper...

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Juvenile

The Prisoner of Zenda

by Anthony Hope

The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is abducted on the eve of his coronation, and the protagonist, an English gentleman...

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Thrillers

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emma Orczy

In this historical adventure set during the French Revolution, the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel sets out to rescue men, women and children facing the horrors of the guillotine, while evading the relentless pursuit...

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Historical

Souvenirs de la maison des morts

by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

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The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of a Lady without...

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