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Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children

Adventure Action Fiction

First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe is a book that marks the beginning of realistic fiction writing in English. Its simple, linear narrative styl...

Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children

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Daniel Defoe James Baldwin

Ethan Frome

Romance Fiction

Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into...

Ethan Frome

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Edith Wharton

Prelude

Fiction

Prelude is a short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published by the Hogarth Press in July 1918, after Virginia Woolf encouraged her to fini...

Prelude

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Katherine Mansfield

North of Boston

Poetry Fiction

North of Boston is a collection of seventeen poems by Robert Frost, first published in 1914 by David Nutt. Most of the poems resemble short dramas or...

North of Boston

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Robert Frost

Bartleby the Scrivener

Fiction

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts i...

Bartleby the Scrivener

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Herman Melville

The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier

Fiction

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier is a fictional story written by Walt Whitman in 1845, which was originally published under the name of...

The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier

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Walt Whitman

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella

History Science

Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Michael Angelo...

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

Under Western Eyes

Adventure Action History

The narrator, an English teacher of languages living in Geneva, is narrating the personal record of Kyrilo Sidorovitch Razumov. Razumov is a student i...

Under Western Eyes

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Joseph Conrad

East by West, Vol. 2

Travel

East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883, within t...

East by West, Vol. 2

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Henry W. Lucy

The Colonel's Dream

Novel

The Colonel's Dream is a novel written by the African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt. The novel is published by Doubleday, Page, & Co. in 1905. T...

The Colonel's Dream

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Charles Chesnutt

Widdershins

Horror Fiction

Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One, wide...

Widdershins

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Oliver Onions

Zastrozzi, A Romance

Fiction Novel

Zastrozzi: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson anonymously, with...

Zastrozzi, A Romance

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Goblin Market and Other Poems

Poetry

Goblin Market and Other Poems is Christina Rossetti's first volume of poetry, published by Macmillan in 1862. It contains her famous poem "Goblin Mark...

Goblin Market and Other Poems

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Christina Rossetti

Radioisotopes and Life Processes

Science

It is a comprehensive exploration of the effect of radiation on living organisms, particularly in relation to the metabolic processes that sustain lif...

Radioisotopes and Life Processes

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Renato Baserga

The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of the Ava Root

Science

It focuses on Ball's research on the chemical composition of the Ava root, which is used in traditional medicine in Fiji. In the book, Ball describes...

The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of the Ava Root

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Alice A. Ball

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