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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Author)
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2006-08-03
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By the time he dies, Ivan Ilych has come to understand the worthlessness of his life. Paradoxically, this elevates him above the common man, who avoids the real
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W. Somerset Maugham (Author)
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2006-08-03
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This classic novel tells the story of Philip Carey, an orphan with a club foot who is raised by a religious aunt and uncle. Yearning for adventure, Philip event
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Alexandre Dumas (Author)
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2006-08-17
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A story of romantic love in Holland during the Renaissance, this historical novel describes the murder of John de Witte and his brother Cornelius under the hand
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author)
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2006-08-03
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The wealthy Colonel Pyncheon covets the carpenter Mathew Maule’s land. A few years later, during the witch hysteria in Salem, Maule is brought before a judge on
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Willa Cather (Author)
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2006-08-03
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It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather''s <I>My Ántonia</I> by offering comment. First published in 1918, and s
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Elizabeth Von Arnim (Author)
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2006-08-03
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Four women rent a chateau on a remote Italian island to try to come to grips with their lives and relationships. They explore the differences in their personali
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Author)
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2006-08-03
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<b>Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2009</b>: To anyone for whom Leo Tolstoy''s masterpieces <i>War and Peace</i> and <i>Anna Karenina</i> have stood a
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Samuel Butler (Author)
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2007-11-22
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In the strange country of Erewhon, sick people are imprisoned while criminals are treated for sickness. Machines are are considered too dangerous to use. And ch
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Charles Dickens (Author)
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2007-11-22
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The story of Trotty Veck, a poor ticket porter, whose outlook is changed from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Year''s Eve. Newly designed an
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (Author)
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2006-08-17
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This novella, first published in 1846, deals with the internal struggle of its main character, "our hero" Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin (which means "naked" or "ins
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Theodore Dreiser (Author)
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2006-08-03
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When Frank Algernon Cowperwood emerged from the Eastern District Penitentiary in Philadelphia he realized that the old life he had lived in that city since boyh
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H. Rider Haggard (Author)
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2006-08-17
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In this heart-stopping sequel to the classic novel "She," Allan Quatermain discovers a lost kingdom in the heart of Africa, ruled by the mysterious Ayesha. A ha
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Jane Austen (Author)
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2006-08-03
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This first of Jane Austen''s published novels is the story of two starkly different English sisters: Elinor Dashwood, the epitome of prudence and self-control,
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Alexandre Dumas (Author)
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2006-07-06
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Alexandre Dumas weaves the compelling story of Siamese twins who are separated physically but never in spirit. When one of the brothers is murdered, the other l
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Franz Kafka (Author)
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2006-08-03
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The Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the most famous of Kafka''s works, along with The Trial and The Castle. The story begins when a traveling salesma
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George MacDonald (Author)
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2006-08-03
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"<I>Lilith</I> is equal if not superior to the best of Poe," the great 20th-century poet W.H. Auden said of this novel, but the comparison only begins to touc
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (Author)
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2006-08-17
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The Gambler paints a stark picture of the attractions--and addictions--of gambling. Using skillful characterization, Dostoevsky faithfully depicts life among t
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G. K. Chesterton (Author)
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2006-08-03
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In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called <I>The Man Who Was Thursday</I> "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a pha
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author)
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2006-07-17
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In Tarzan the Terrible, considered by fans to be one of the best of the Tarzan novels, the Lord of the Jungle sets out to rescue his beloved Jane, who has been
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Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol (Author)
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2006-08-03
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Taras Bulba is a magnificent story portraying the life of the Ukrainian Cossacks who lived by the Dnieper River in the sixteenth century. Taras Bulba is an old
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Charles Dickens (Author)
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2007-11-22
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Ebenezer Scrooge thinks Christmas is just a humbug--until he''s visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. The enduring tale of a man who lear
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Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol (Author)
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2006-08-03
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Taras Bulba is a magnificent story portraying the life of the Ukrainian Cossacks who lived by the Dnieper River in the sixteenth century. Taras Bulba is an old
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author)
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2006-08-03
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The Great Stone Face (The Old Man of the Mountains) juts out from the White Mountains of New Hampshire and looms over a small village. An old prophecy states th
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Charles Dickens (Author)
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2011-07-17
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Ebenezer Scrooge thinks Christmas is just a humbug--until he''s visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. The enduring tale of a man who lear
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author)
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2011-11-25
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The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is the classic Gothic American romance novel, generally considered to be Nathaniel Hawthorne''s masterpiece. Set in Purit
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