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A Boy's Town William Dean HowellsLocalBooks Classics
William Dean Howells remembers growing up in Hamilton, Ohio, in the 1840s, the place he calls simply the Boy's Town: the Great Miami River and the canal, swimming holes and fishing, school fights, circuses, Fourth of July cannons, and the strange private laws of boyhood. Written for young readers, and for anyone who grew up in a small Ohio town.
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A Christmas Carol Charles DickensLocalBooks Classics
On Christmas Eve, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner and then by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, who show him what his life has been and what it will become.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark TwainLocalBooks Classics
A blow to the head sends a practical Hartford factory boss back to sixth-century Britain. Armed with gunpowder, telegraphs and advertising, he sets out to modernize Camelot, and Twain's comedy turns sharper as the knights push back.
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A Farewell to Arms Ernest HemingwayLocalBooks Classics
Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver with the Italian army in the First World War, falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. As the war collapses around them, they try to escape it together.
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A Little Princess Frances Hodgson BurnettLocalBooks Classics
Sara Crewe arrives at a London boarding school as its richest pupil, until news comes that her father has died penniless. Sent to live in the attic as a servant, she holds on to her imagination and kindness.
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A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice BurroughsLocalBooks Classics
Confederate veteran John Carter falls asleep in an Arizona cave and wakes on Mars, known to its people as Barsoom, where he is captured by green Martian warriors and falls in love with the princess Dejah Thoris.
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A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan DoyleLocalBooks Classics
A doctor home from the war needs cheap rooms in London and ends up sharing 221B Baker Street with an odd young man who seems to know everything about him at a glance. The first Sherlock Holmes story starts with a body in an empty house and a word written in blood.
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A Tale of Two Cities Charles DickensLocalBooks Classics
London and Paris on the road to the French Revolution: a doctor freed after eighteen years in the Bastille, his devoted daughter, and two men who love her, one of whom has given up on himself. It opens with one of the most famous first lines in English.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary WollstonecraftLocalBooks Classics
Writing from London in the middle of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft argues that women only seem frivolous because they are raised to please rather than to think. She calls for girls to get the same serious education as boys and answers the popular writers who said otherwise.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark TwainLocalBooks Classics
Escaping his violent father, Huck Finn fakes his own death and heads down the Mississippi on a raft with Jim, a man fleeing slavery. Their journey through river towns full of swindlers, feuds and mobs tests everything Huck has been taught about right and wrong.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis CarrollLocalBooks Classics
Bored on a riverbank, Alice follows a white rabbit with a pocket watch down a hole and into a world of shrinking potions, a grinning cat, a mad tea party and a queen who wants everyone's head.
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Amintiri din copilărie Ion CreangăLocalBooks Classics
Nică al lui Ștefan a Petrei își povestește copilăria în Humuleștii de lângă Târgu Neamț: școala de la biserică, cireșele furate, scăldatul în Ozana și pozna cu pupăza din tei. Apoi vine plecarea, în silă, la școlile de la Fălticeni și la seminarul din Iași.
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Anna Karenina Leo TolstoyLocalBooks Classics
Anna Karenina, married to a cold government official in Saint Petersburg, falls into a passionate affair with Count Vronsky, while in the countryside the earnest landowner Levin searches for meaning, faith and love. A vast portrait of Russian society.
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Around the World in Eighty Days Jules VerneLocalBooks Classics
On a wager at his London club, the precise and unflappable Phileas Fogg sets out to circle the globe in eighty days with his new valet, Passepartout. Steamers, trains and an elephant carry them east, pursued all the way by a detective convinced Fogg is a bank robber.
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Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts Joseph von EichendorffLocalBooks Classics
Der Vater schickt ihn als Taugenichts aus der Mühle fort, und er zieht mit seiner Geige in die Welt: als Gärtner und Zolleinnehmer bei Wien, verliebt in eine schöne Dame, und auf einer Reise voller Verwechslungen bis nach Rom.
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Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman MelvilleLocalBooks Classics
A Wall Street lawyer hires a quiet, pale copyist named Bartleby, who works well at first. Then, asked to check a document, Bartleby answers, 'I would prefer not to,' and keeps preferring not to, to everything.
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Bel-Ami Guy de MaupassantLocalBooks Classics
Georges Duroy, ancien soldat sans le sou, n’a ni talent ni scrupules, mais il plaît aux femmes. Dans le Paris de la presse et de la politique, il s’en sert pour monter, une liaison après l’autre.
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Beowulf AnonymousLocalBooks Classics
The monster Grendel has been raiding the Danish king's mead-hall for twelve years when a young warrior named Beowulf crosses the sea from Geatland to fight him bare-handed. Grendel's mother comes next, and decades later, an old King Beowulf faces a dragon.
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Betty Zane Zane GreyLocalBooks Classics
Zane Grey's first novel tells the story of a heroine of his mother's family: Betty Zane, at Fort Henry on the Ohio River, where Wheeling stands today, during the siege of 1782, one of the last battles of the American Revolution. When the fort's gunpowder ran low, the legend goes, Betty ran through gunfire to bring more from her brother's cabin. A frontier romance built on family history, and the first of his Ohio Valley trilogy.
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Botchan Natsume SōsekiLocalBooks Classics
A hot-headed young Tokyo man takes a job teaching maths at a provincial school, where his students play pranks and his fellow teachers scheme. Sōseki's comic novel, based on his own teaching years, is one of Japan's most-read books.
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Buddenbrooks Thomas MannLocalBooks Classics
Vier Generationen einer angesehenen Lübecker Kaufmannsfamilie, vom stolzen Aufstieg bis zum langsamen Verfall. Thomas Mann erzählt ihren Niedergang mit Ironie, Zärtlichkeit und unvergesslichen Figuren.
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Can Such Things Be?Ambrose BierceLocalBooks Classics
Ambrose Bierce's ghost stories, told in his dry, deadpan voice: a murder seen by three witnesses, one of them the dead woman speaking through a medium, in "The Moonlit Road"; a chess-playing machine that hates to lose in "Moxon's Master"; "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "One Summer Night," and more short tales of the impossible.
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Candide VoltaireLocalBooks Classics
Candide is taught that this is the best of all possible worlds, then gets kicked out of a Westphalian castle for kissing the baron's daughter. War, the Lisbon earthquake, the Inquisition, shipwreck and a detour through El Dorado put his tutor's optimism to a brutal test in this fast, savage satire.
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Ciocoii vechi și noi Nicolae FilimonLocalBooks Classics
În 1814, Dinu Păturică intră slugă în casa postelnicului Tuzluc din București cu un singur gând: să-și jefuiască stăpânul și să ajungă boier. Primul roman românesc urmărește ascensiunea lui prin intrigi, mită și o curtezană grecoaică, pe fundalul ultimilor ani fanarioți și al revoluției din 1821.
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