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On Liberty John Stuart MillLocalBooks Classics
Mill asks when a society, through its laws or simply through public opinion, has the right to control what one person does. His answer, that only harm to others justifies it, leads to a defence of free speech, eccentricity and living by one's own lights.
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On the Origin of Species Charles DarwinLocalBooks Classics
Darwin starts with pigeon breeders and farm animals, then argues that the same slow sifting happens in the wild: more creatures are born than can survive, and small advantages are passed on. Written at his home in Kent and drawing on what he saw on the Beagle voyage, it answers the objections he expected one by one.
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Orlando Virginia WoolfLocalBooks Classics
Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabeth I's court who lives for more than three hundred years, wakes up one morning as a woman, and keeps writing a poem through it all. Woolf's playful mock-biography was inspired by her friend Vita Sackville-West.
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Os Maias Eça de QueirósLocalBooks Classics
Na Lisboa elegante do fim do século XIX, o jovem médico Carlos da Maia apaixona-se por uma mulher misteriosa. A história de três gerações de uma família aristocrática e de um país que se olha ao espelho.
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Ozma of Oz L. Frank BaumLocalBooks Classics
Washed overboard in a storm, Dorothy lands in the land of Ev with a talking hen. Together with Ozma and old friends from Oz, she sets out to rescue a royal family from the Nome King's underground palace.
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Paradise Lost John MiltonLocalBooks Classics
Milton's epic poem tells the fall of Satan from heaven, his war against God, and his plan to corrupt the first humans in the Garden of Eden. Dictated after he went blind, it gives the devil some of the best lines in English poetry.
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Paradiso Dante AlighieriLocalBooks Classics
The last part of the Divine Comedy: led by Beatrice, Dante rises through the spheres of heaven, meeting saints and thinkers and asking the hardest questions, until he comes face to face with the light at the center of everything.
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Ulysses S. GrantLocalBooks Classics
Written in his last year, while dying of throat cancer, to keep his family out of debt: Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs follow him from a tanner's son in Georgetown, Ohio, through West Point and the Mexican War to command of the Union armies and Appomattox. Plain, clear and modest, they were published by Mark Twain's company, became a huge bestseller, and are still counted among the finest military memoirs ever written.
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Persuasion Jane AustenLocalBooks Classics
Eight years ago Anne Elliot was talked out of marrying a young naval officer with no fortune. Now Captain Wentworth is back, rich and admired, and apparently over her. Austen's last finished novel is a story about second chances.
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Peter Pan J. M. BarrieLocalBooks Classics
One night Peter Pan, the boy who won't grow up, flies in through the nursery window of the Darling children and takes Wendy, John and Michael to Neverland, home of the Lost Boys, mermaids and Captain Hook.
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Poor White Sherwood AndersonLocalBooks Classics
Hugh McVey, a dreamy, awkward boy from a Missouri river town, drifts to Bidwell, Ohio, and invents farm machines that turn the quiet town into an industrial one, for better and worse.
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Pride and Prejudice Jane AustenLocalBooks Classics
Elizabeth Bennet has four sisters, a mother desperate to marry them off, and a quick tongue. When the rich and haughty Mr. Darcy insults her at a dance, she decides she knows exactly what kind of man he is.
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Purgatorio Dante AlighieriLocalBooks Classics
Having climbed out of Hell, Dante and Virgil ascend the mountain of Purgatory, where souls are cleansed of their sins on seven terraces before rising to Heaven. The second part of the Divine Comedy.
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Red Harvest Dashiell HammettLocalBooks Classics
An unnamed Continental Op detective is called to Personville, a mining town so corrupt the locals call it Poisonville. When his client is murdered before they meet, he decides to clean up the whole town by turning its gangs against each other.
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Rip Van Winkle Washington IrvingLocalBooks Classics
Easygoing Rip Van Winkle wanders into the Catskill Mountains, shares a drink with a strange crew of bearded men playing ninepins, and wakes twenty years later to find the American Revolution has come and gone.
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Robinson Crusoe Daniel DefoeLocalBooks Classics
A restless young man from York ignores his father, goes to sea, and after years of misfortune is shipwrecked alone on an island off the mouth of the Orinoco. He salvages tools from the wreck, builds a fortified home, keeps a calendar on a post, and one day finds a single human footprint in the sand.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Volume 1 Luo GuanzhongLocalBooks Classics
As the Han dynasty crumbles, three sworn brothers, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, pledge loyalty in a peach garden and ride out against rebels and warlords. Plots, betrayals and the cunning of Cao Cao and Zhuge Liang fill a sprawling war novel that leads toward the great battle at the Red Cliffs.
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Romeo and Juliet William ShakespeareLocalBooks Classics
In Verona the Montagues and Capulets brawl in the streets, yet their two children fall in love at a masked ball and marry in secret within a day. A single fatal duel sends Romeo into exile in Mantua, and a friar's desperate plan has to work perfectly.
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Sartoris William FaulknerLocalBooks Classics
Young Bayard Sartoris comes home from flying in the First World War to his Mississippi family, haunted by his twin brother's death and by the reckless family legend he seems determined to live up to. Faulkner's first novel set in Yoknapatawpha County.
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Sense and Sensibility Jane AustenLocalBooks Classics
After their father dies, the Dashwood sisters lose their home and most of their money. Elinor keeps her feelings to herself; Marianne pours hers out to anyone listening. Both are about to have their hearts tested.
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Sons and Lovers D. H. LawrenceLocalBooks Classics
In a Nottinghamshire mining village, Gertrude Morel pours the love her hard-drinking collier husband cannot hold into her sons. As Paul grows up to paint, work in a Nottingham factory office and court two very different women, his mother's devotion becomes the bond he can neither keep nor break.
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis StevensonLocalBooks Classics
The London lawyer Utterson is worried about his old friend Dr. Jekyll, who has made a will in favour of a violent, repellent man called Edward Hyde. The truth about the two men is stranger than he imagines.
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Swann's Way Marcel ProustLocalBooks Classics
A taste of madeleine dipped in tea brings back the narrator's childhood holidays in the small town of Combray: his mother's goodnight kiss, two family walks and the neighbours glimpsed along them. At its heart is the story of Charles Swann, a polished Paris man of society, and his jealous, consuming love for Odette.
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Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan PoeLocalBooks Classics
Nearly seventy of Poe's stories in one volume, from detective puzzles in Paris to a treasure hunt on a South Carolina island, a whirlpool off Norway and a masked ball shadowed by plague. The terror tales sit beside his lesser-known hoaxes and comedies, which show a sly, playful side of the writer.
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