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Confessions Augustine of HippoLocalBooks Classics
Addressed as a long prayer, Augustine tells how a gifted, restless young man from North Africa stole pears for fun, chased ambition through Carthage, Rome and Milan, and argued with every philosophy on offer. It reaches a garden in Milan where he finally hears a child's voice telling him to pick up and read.
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Crime and Punishment Fyodor DostoevskyLocalBooks Classics
Raskolnikov, a destitute former student in Saint Petersburg, convinces himself that killing a greedy pawnbroker would be justified, and then must live with the act as a patient, perceptive investigator closes in.
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Cuore Edmondo De AmicisLocalBooks Classics
Il diario di un anno di scuola di Enrico, terza elementare, a Torino: i compagni, il maestro, i genitori, e ogni mese un racconto di piccoli eroi italiani. Un libro su cui hanno pianto generazioni.
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Dark Laughter Sherwood AndersonLocalBooks Classics
Chicago newspaperman John Stockton walks out of his marriage and drifts down the Mississippi to a small Indiana town, where he takes a factory job under a new name and is drawn to his employer's restless wife.
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David Copperfield Charles DickensLocalBooks Classics
David tells his own story, from a happy early childhood through a cruel stepfather, factory work in London and a long walk to an eccentric aunt, to love, loss and finding his place as a writer. Dickens called it his favourite child.
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Democracy in America (Volume 1)Alexis de TocquevilleLocalBooks Classics
Sent in 1831 to study American prisons, the young French magistrate Tocqueville travelled for nine months and came back with a portrait of a whole society. This first volume looks at New England townships, the courts, the press and parties, and ends with a long look at the fate of Native Americans and enslaved people.
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Democracy in America (Volume 2)Alexis de TocquevilleLocalBooks Classics
Five years after the first volume, Tocqueville turns from America's institutions to its habits of mind: how equality shapes religion, science, literature, family life and the love of money. He also warns of a soft new despotism that could grow out of democracy itself.
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Der Schimmelreiter Theodor StormLocalBooks Classics
An der nordfriesischen Küste erzählt man sich vom Deichgrafen Hauke Haien, der einen neuen, kühnen Deich bauen ließ. Bei Sturmflut, heißt es, sieht man ihn noch heute auf seinem Schimmel über den Deich reiten.
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Die Judenbuche Annette von Droste-HülshoffLocalBooks Classics
In einem Dorf im Westfälischen wächst Friedrich Mergel zwischen Holzfrevel, Armut und einem gefährlichen Oheim auf. Als ein jüdischer Händler erschlagen im Wald gefunden wird, ritzen die Juden des Dorfes einen hebräischen Spruch in eine Buche.
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Die Verwandlung Franz KafkaLocalBooks Classics
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwacht, findet er sich in ein ungeheures Ungeziefer verwandelt. Seine größte Sorge: Wie soll er so zur Arbeit kommen, und was wird aus seiner Familie?
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Dom Casmurro Machado de AssisLocalBooks Classics
Bento Santiago, já velho e recolhido, decide contar a própria vida: o amor de infância por Capitu, o seminário, o casamento e a suspeita que nunca o deixou. Capitu traiu ou não traiu? O leitor decide.
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Don Quijote de la Mancha Miguel de CervantesLocalBooks Classics
Un hidalgo de La Mancha lee tantos libros de caballerías que pierde el juicio y sale a los caminos como caballero andante, con Sancho Panza de escudero. Molinos que parecen gigantes, ventas que parecen castillos: la novela que inventó la novela moderna.
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Doña Perfecta Benito Pérez GaldósLocalBooks Classics
Pepe Rey, un joven ingeniero de ideas modernas, llega a la ciudad episcopal de Orbajosa para casarse con su prima Rosario. Su tía, doña Perfecta, lo recibe con sonrisas, y la ciudad entera se cierra contra él.
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Dracula Bram StokerLocalBooks Classics
Solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to help Count Dracula buy a house in England, and becomes a prisoner in the Count's castle. When Dracula arrives in Whitby, Harker's fiancée Mina, Dr. Seward and Professor Van Helsing join forces to hunt him down. Told in letters, diaries and newspaper clippings.
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Early Autumn Louis BromfieldLocalBooks Classics
Winner of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize. In an old New England town, Olivia Pentland, who married into a proud, fading Boston family, reaches middle age and must choose between the family's rules and a chance at a life of her own. A sharp portrait of Puritan respectability by a writer from Mansfield, Ohio, who saw it from the outside.
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Emma Jane AustenLocalBooks Classics
Handsome, clever and rich, Emma Woodhouse is sure she has a gift for matchmaking, even though she has no plans to marry herself. Her schemes for the people of her village go wrong in ways everyone can see but her.
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Ethan Frome Edith WhartonLocalBooks Classics
On a poor farm in snowbound Massachusetts, Ethan Frome is trapped in a bitter marriage to his sickly wife Zeena. When her young cousin Mattie comes to help in the house, Ethan begins to imagine another life.
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Faust: Part One Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLocalBooks Classics
Weary of all his learning, the old scholar Faust strikes a wager with Mephistopheles: the devil may have his soul if he ever finds a moment he wishes would last. Their journey runs from a rowdy Leipzig wine cellar to a witches' night on the Brocken, and through Faust's ruinous love for the young Margaret.
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Frankenstein Mary ShelleyLocalBooks Classics
A young scientist builds a man from the parts of the dead and brings him to life, then runs from what he has made. Abandoned, his creature has to find its own way in a world that recoils from it.
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From the Earth to the Moon Jules VerneLocalBooks Classics
After the Civil War, the members of the Baltimore Gun Club have nothing left to shoot at, so their president proposes the biggest cannon ever built, aimed at the Moon. Then a daring Frenchman asks to ride inside the shell.
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Gitanjali Rabindranath TagoreLocalBooks Classics
A collection of devotional poems, Song Offerings, which Rabindranath Tagore rendered in English himself. The book led to his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, the first awarded to a non-European writer.
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Great Expectations Charles DickensLocalBooks Classics
Pip, an orphan raised by his sister and her blacksmith husband, gets a shock in a churchyard, a strange invitation to a decaying mansion, and then news that an unknown benefactor will make him a gentleman.
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Gulliver's Travels Jonathan SwiftLocalBooks Classics
Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, keeps sailing out of Bristol and London and keeps washing up somewhere stranger: among the six-inch Lilliputians, the giants of Brobdingnag, the flying island of Laputa and the horse-people called Houyhnhnms. Swift uses each voyage to skewer the politics, science and pride of his own England.
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Hamlet William ShakespeareLocalBooks Classics
A ghost walks the battlements at Elsinore, and it tells Prince Hamlet that his father was murdered by the uncle who now wears the crown and has married his mother. Hamlet feigns madness while he decides what to do, and the Danish court begins to come apart around him.
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