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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain
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A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
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A farewell to arms
Ernest Hemingway
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
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A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
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A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick
Jonathan Swift
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
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A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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A Room with a View
E. M. Forster
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A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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Aesop's Fables
Aesop
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
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Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
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Anthem
Ayn Rand
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
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Beowulf
Anonymous
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
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Bleak House
Charles Dickens
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Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
Holman Day
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Candide
Voltaire
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Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling
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Carmen
Prosper Mérimée
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Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Cynthia's Chauffeur
Louis Tracy
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
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Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday
Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. Miller
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
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De Profundis
Oscar Wilde
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Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
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Dubliners
James Joyce
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Emily Brontë
A. Mary F. Robinson
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Emma
Jane Austen
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Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
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Father Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
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Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
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Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott
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Four Arthurian Romances
de Troyes, active 12th century Chrétien
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
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From the Earth to the Moon
Jules Verne
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
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Heidi
Johanna Spyri
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Henrietta Temple: A Love Story
Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
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Howards End
E. M. Forster
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I am a woman
Ann Bannon
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Ivanhoe
Walter Scott
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
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Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Kim
Rudyard Kipling
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King Lear
William Shakespeare
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King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory
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Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
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Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
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Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy
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Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
R. D. Blackmore
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Macbeth
William Shakespeare
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
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Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
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Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
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Master and Man
Leo Tolstoy
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
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Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
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Moods
Louisa May Alcott
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My Ántonia
Willa Cather
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North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
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Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
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Oedipus King of Thebes: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes
Sophocles
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
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Othello
William Shakespeare
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Paradise Lost
John Milton
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Persuasion
Jane Austen
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Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
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Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
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Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy
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Robert Orange: Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange
John Oliver Hobbes
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
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Silas Marner
George Eliot
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Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
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Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
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That Girl Montana
Marah Ellis Ryan
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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete
T. Smollett
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
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The Adventures of Roderick Random
T. Smollett
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
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The Aeneid
Virgil
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Andrew Lang
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The Awakening
Kate Chopin
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The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Blue Castle: a novel
L. M. Montgomery
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London
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The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Cherry Orchard and Other Plays
Anton Chekhov
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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The Crack of Doom
Robert Cromie
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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
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The Enchanted April
Elizabeth Von Arnim
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
T. Smollett
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Maurice Leblanc
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The Gay Adventure: A Romance
Richard Bird
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The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
Cornelius Tacitus
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Green Mummy
Fergus Hume
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The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
Lucas Malet
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The History of Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Iliad
Homer
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African: Written By Himself
Olaudah Equiano
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The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
H.G. Wells
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The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
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The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks
Vatsyayana
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The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
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The Lady of the Lake
Walter Scott
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The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
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The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
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The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
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The Misplaced Battleship
Harry Harrison
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The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Ward Radcliffe
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
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The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne
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The Odyssey
Homer
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
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The Possessed
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope
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The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy
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The Sea-Wolf
Jack London
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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The Secret of Chimneys
Agatha Christie
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The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
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The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
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The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
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The Trial
Franz Kafka
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
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The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End
Henry James
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The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
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The Warden
Anthony Trollope
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
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Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
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Twenty years after
Alexandre Dumas
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Ulysses
James Joyce
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
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White Fang
Jack London
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Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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