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• The Marvelous Land of OzL. Frank BaumLocalBooks Classics

  Tip, a boy who has always lived with a witch, runs away with a pumpkin-headed man he brought to life by accident. They reach the Emerald City just as an army of girls led by General Jinjur takes it from the Scarecrow.

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• The Murder on the LinksAgatha ChristieLocalBooks Classics

  Poirot is summoned to France by a millionaire who fears for his life, but he arrives too late: the man has been stabbed and left in a freshly dug grave on a golf course. Poirot and a rival detective race to solve it.

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• The Murders in the Rue MorgueEdgar Allan PoeLocalBooks Classics

  A mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in a Paris apartment locked from the inside, and the witnesses cannot agree on what language they heard through the door. C. Auguste Dupin reasons it out in the story often called the first modern detective tale.

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• The Mysterious Affair at StylesAgatha ChristieLocalBooks Classics

  Wartime England: at a country house in Essex, the wealthy Mrs. Inglethorp dies of poison behind a locked door. A Belgian refugee who happens to be staying in the village, Hercule Poirot, makes his first appearance.

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• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of NantucketEdgar Allan PoeLocalBooks Classics

  Young Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on a whaling ship and survives mutiny, shipwreck, starvation and a massacre on an uncharted island before drifting toward the strange white silence of the Antarctic. Poe's only complete novel.

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• The OdysseyHomerLocalBooks Classics

  After ten years of war at Troy, Odysseus spends ten more trying to get home, past a cyclops, a sorceress, the Sirens and the anger of a god, while at home in Ithaca his wife Penelope holds off the suitors who want his place.

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• The OresteiaAeschylusLocalBooks Classics

  King Agamemnon comes home to Argos from Troy and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra, and years later their son Orestes returns to avenge him. The trilogy follows the blood feud from the palace to Apollo's shrine at Delphi and finally to a trial before the citizens of Athens.

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• The Phantom of the OperaGaston LerouxLocalBooks Classics

  A masked genius haunts the cellars of the Paris Opera, tutoring the young singer Christine Daaé and terrorizing anyone who stands between them, until her childhood friend Raoul resolves to find the man behind the legend.

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• The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar WildeLocalBooks Classics

  A beautiful young man wishes that his portrait would age instead of him, and his wish comes true. As Dorian gives himself to pleasure and cruelty, his face stays young while the painting shows what he has become.

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• The Pilgrim's ProgressJohn BunyanLocalBooks Classics

  Dreamed up in a Bedford jail cell, this allegory follows Christian as he leaves the City of Destruction with a burden on his back and sets out for the Celestial City. On the way he crosses the Slough of Despond, fights Apollyon and is locked in Doubting Castle, and in the second part his wife Christiana follows with their children.

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• The PrinceNiccolò MachiavelliLocalBooks Classics

  Out of office and exiled to his farm outside Florence, Machiavelli wrote a short handbook for anyone who wants to win a state and keep it. Drawing on Cesare Borgia, the popes and the wars of Italy, he asks whether it is better for a ruler to be loved or feared.

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• The Prince and the PauperMark TwainLocalBooks Classics

  Two boys born on the same day in Tudor London, one the heir to the throne and one a beggar, discover they look exactly alike and swap clothes for fun. Then the doors close, and each is stuck living the other's life.

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• The RepublicPlatoLocalBooks Classics

  At a festival in the harbor town of Piraeus, Socrates is pressed to say whether justice is worth having for its own sake. To answer, he and his friends build an imaginary city from the ground up, complete with philosopher-rulers, a shared education and the famous cave.

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• The Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyámOmar KhayyámLocalBooks Classics

  In quatrains attributed to an 11th-century Persian astronomer of Nishapur, a voice urges the reader to take the jug of wine and the loaf of bread while there is time. FitzGerald's free English version turned the poem into one of the most quoted of the Victorian age.

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• The Scarlet LetterNathaniel HawthorneLocalBooks Classics

  In 1640s Boston, Hester Prynne stands on the scaffold with a baby in her arms and a scarlet A on her dress, refusing to name the father. Her husband, arriving in disguise, is determined to find him.

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• The Sea-WolfJack LondonLocalBooks Classics

  After a ferry collision in San Francisco Bay, a gentle literary critic is fished out of the water by a seal-hunting schooner whose captain, Wolf Larsen, is brilliant, well-read and completely ruthless. Larsen refuses to put him ashore.

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• The Secret AdversaryAgatha ChristieLocalBooks Classics

  After the First World War, two broke old friends, Tommy and Tuppence, set up as 'Young Adventurers' willing to do anything for money. Their first job pulls them into the hunt for a secret document and a master criminal known only as Mr. Brown.

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• The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson BurnettLocalBooks Classics

  Spoiled, sour and orphaned, Mary Lennox is sent from India to her uncle's gloomy house on the Yorkshire moors, where she hears crying in the night and finds the key to a garden that has been locked for ten years.

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• The Sign of the FourArthur Conan DoyleLocalBooks Classics

  A young woman has received a single perfect pearl in the post every year for six years, and now an unknown friend wants to meet her. Holmes and Watson follow the trail to a locked room, a stolen treasure and a chase down the Thames.

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• The Song of the LarkWilla CatherLocalBooks Classics

  Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a small Colorado town, has a voice and a drive that don't fit there. Cather follows her from Moonstone to Chicago and beyond as she becomes an opera singer.

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• The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von GoetheLocalBooks Classics

  In letters to a friend, a sensitive young man describes the country town where he has gone to rest, and the girl Lotte he meets at a dance, who is already engaged. As summer turns to winter his feeling for her consumes everything else, in the novel that made Goethe famous overnight.

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• The Sound and the FuryWilliam FaulknerLocalBooks Classics

  The decline of the Compson family of Mississippi is told four times, by three brothers and finally from outside, beginning in the mind of Benjy, who cannot follow time at all. At the center is their sister Caddy.

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• The Spirit of the BorderZane GreyLocalBooks Classics

  The second of Zane Grey's Ohio Valley novels. Two brothers come west to the frontier around Fort Henry: Jim, a young preacher bound for the Moravian mission villages on the Tuscarawas River, and Joe, who wants adventure and finds it with the Indian fighter Lewis Wetzel, the "Deathwind." A story of the brutal border war in the Ohio country in the 1780s.

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• The Sun Also RisesErnest HemingwayLocalBooks Classics

  In the 1920s, expatriate American journalist Jake Barnes and his friends drink their way from the cafés of Paris to the bullfights of Pamplona, circling Lady Brett Ashley, the woman Jake loves and can never have.

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