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Common Sense

Political Science Non-Fiction

Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies....

Common Sense

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Thomas Paine

Villette

Romance Fiction Novel Biography

Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from he...

Villette

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Charlotte Brontë

History of the United States, Vol. II: Conflict & Independence

History Non-Fiction

Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive s...

History of the United States, Vol. II: Conflict & Independence

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Charles A. Beard

Washington Square

Novel

Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it...

Washington Square

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Henry James

Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography

Biography

François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revolt, he led thousan...

Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography

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John Relly Beard

Cranford

Fiction Novel

Cranford is an episodic novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It first appeared in instalments in the magazine Household Words, then was publ...

Cranford

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Elizabeth Gaskell

Shirley

Fiction Novel

Shirley, A Tale is a social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1849. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane...

Shirley

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Charlotte Brontë

The American Crisis

Political Science Non-Fiction

A 13 pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher/author Thomas Paine, published between 1776 to 1783 during and immediately following th...

The American Crisis

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Thomas Paine

Summer

Fiction Novel

Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton, which was published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. While most novels by Edith Wharton dealt with New York's u...

Summer

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Edith Wharton

The Secret Places of the Heart

Biography

The book is to a great extent autobiographical. H. G. had read some brilliantly composed articles by a writer who wrote under the name Rebecca West. I...

The Secret Places of the Heart

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H.G. Wells

The Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation

Philosophy

The book is a series of independent demonstrations, the results of which accumulate to the final conclusion, that the Christian religion is necessaril...

The Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation

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James Barr Walker

Youth

Non-Fiction Biography

Youth begins with the narrator's friedship with Dmitri (who the narrator meets through his brother Volodya). The arc of the story mostly starts and fi...

Youth

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Leo Tolstoy

The Woman Who Did

Novel

The Woman Who Did is a novel by Grant Allen about a young, self-assured middle-class woman who defies convention as a matter of principle and who is...

The Woman Who Did

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Grant Allen

Karl Marx: An Essay

Biography

This highly readable 1922 essay on Karl Marx is a scholarly and critical account of Marx's life and work.

Karl Marx: An Essay

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Harold Laski

A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory

Non-Fiction Biography

"Larcom served as a model for the change in women's roles in society." This is her colorful autobiography. Here, she tells about her happy childhood,...

A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory

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Lucy Larcom

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