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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky studies the psychological impact upon a desperate and impoverished student when he murders a despicable pawnbroker, transgressing moral law to ultimately benefit humanity.
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Frankenstein
by Mary W. Shelley
Dr. Frankenstein learns the secret of imparting life to inanimate matter. To test his theories, he collects bones from the charnel-houses to construct a 'human' being, and then gives it life. The creature, endowed with supernatural size and strength, is revolting to look at, and frightens... Read More
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
by Henry Fielding
Fielding's bawdy, colorful, high-spirited novel painted human vices and virtues with unprecedented honesty and good humor, making Tom Jones as fresh and entertaining today as it was 200 years ago.
A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent... Read More
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This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, the novel that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the voice of his generation, was written while he was in the army, extensively revised, and finally published in 1920 when he was only 23 years old. The young 'romantic egoist' Amory Blaine--vain, shallow, and... Read More
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Middlemarch: Part 1 & Part 2
by George Eliot
George Eliot’s masterpiece, portraying every level of society in a provincial English town, tells the story of the romantic idealist Dorothea Brooke, her misguided marriage to a dessicated scholar incapable of loving her, and the passionate love affair that ultimately brings meaning to... Read More
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The Circular Staircase
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Rachel Innes believes that her summer house in the Adirondacks is haunted. Her niece and nephew arrive one night for an unexpected visit and then, the next night, they find a body at the bottom of the circular staircase. However, what Rachel believes is haunting them may turn out to be... Read More
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Around the World in 80 Days
by Jules Verne
Verne's most outrageous 'voyage extraordinaire' - a hasty world tour taken up on a gentlemen's club wager! Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table - that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean Passepartout,... Read More
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