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    The "Genius" The "Genius"
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    The "Genius"

    The "Genius" (1915) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Based partly on his own experience as an artist from the Midwest, The "Genius" examines the nature of talent, the difficulty of desire, and the...
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    David Copperfield David Copperfield
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    David Copperfield

    "Few novelists have ever captured more poignantly the feeling of childhood, the brightness and magic and terror of the world as seen through the eyes of a child and colored by his dawning emotions...
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    The Innocents Abroad The Innocents Abroad
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    The Innocents Abroad

    Set in 1867, The Innocents Abroad is a travel book that follows a group of Americans from New York City to the renowned Holy Land. Throughout the journey, author Mark Twain uses humor and wit to make...
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  • Resurrection of the Gods
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    Resurrection of the Gods

    Resurrection of the Gods (1900) is a novel by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in fiction, Merezhkovsky sought to develop his theory...
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  • Peter and Alexis
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    Peter and Alexis

    Peter and Alexis (1904) is a novel by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in fiction, Merezhkovsky sought to develop his theory of the...
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  • Camille
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    Camille

    A young man is captivated by a popular Parisian courtesan and attempts to build a life with her despite his family and society's growing disapproval. An against-all-odds tale that forces one lover to...
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  • For the Pleasure of His Company
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    For the Pleasure of His Company

    For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City (1903) is a novel by Charles Warren Stoddard. Published toward the end of Stoddard's career as a poet and travel writer whose friends...
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  • The Life and Adventures of Joaqun Murieta The Life and Adventures of Joaqun Murieta
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    The Life and Adventures of Joaqun Murieta

    The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta (1854) is a novel by John Rollin Ridge. Published under his birth name Yellow Bird, from Cheesquatalawny in Cherokee, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin...
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  • Marion
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    Marion

    Born into a large family of Asian ethnicity in Canada, Marion Ascough always felt like an outsider, not just because of her heritage, but also because of her aspiration to be an artist. At home, her...
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  • Me: A Book of Rememberance
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    Me: A Book of Rememberance

    Born into a family of sixteen children, Nora Ascouth is used to fighting to be heard. From a young age, Nora becomes determined to have a writing career, and travels around the world looking for the...
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  • Marching Men
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    Marching Men

    Marching Men (1917) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's second novel is a coming of age story that explores the individual and collective identities...
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  • Memoirs of Emma Courtney
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    Memoirs of Emma Courtney

    Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) is a novel by English writer and feminist Mary Hays. Inspired by events from her own life, as well as by her acquaintance with radical political philosophers William...
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  • Paul Kelver
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    Paul Kelver

    Paul Kelver, a fictional character, recounts an eventful life loosely based on author Jerome K. Jerome's personal and professional exploits prior to becoming a writer. It's an intriguing look at an...
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  • The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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    The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

    The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903) is a semi-autobiographical work by George Gissing. Published in the last year of his life, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft is presented as a diary of...
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  • Typee
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    Typee

    Typee (1846) is a work of travel literature by American writer Herman Melville. Its publication was an instant success in both London and New York, earning Melville a reputation as one of America's...
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  • The Way of All Flesh The Way of All Flesh
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    The Way of All Flesh

    Over the span of a century, the Pontifex family is populated by manipulative and domineering characters attempting to control the fate of the next generation. In The Way of All Flesh, Ernest Pontifex...
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  • Windy McPherson's Son Windy McPherson's Son
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    Windy McPherson's Son

    Windy McPherson's Son (1916) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's debut novel is a coming of age story that explores themes of unhappiness and infidelity...
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  • So Big So Big
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    So Big

    LARGE PRINT EDITION. Inspired by the life events of Antje Paarlberg, So Big is an award-winning drama that depicts the life of Selina Peake de Jong. Raised in a strict farming community, Selina...
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  • Who Would Have Thought It? Who Would Have Thought It?
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    Who Would Have Thought It?

    LARGE PRINT EDITION. A young barrister named Lucian Denzil rents a modest home in Geneva Square. Looking to establish himself in professional life, he tries his best to ignore the rumors of the...
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  • The Uncalled The Uncalled
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    The Uncalled

    The Uncalled (1898) is a novel by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published while Dunbar was at the height of his career as one of the nation's leading black poets, The Uncalled marked...
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  • John Barleycorn
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    John Barleycorn

    Wrestling with the disease of alcoholism for most of his life, Jack London tells all in his autobiography John Barleycorn. Beginning with a discussion of the prohibition movement and its effects,...
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  • The Martian
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    The Martian

    The Martian (1898) is a novel by George du Maurier. Published posthumously, du Maurier's final novel is a semi-autobiographical account of his struggle with vision loss incorporating elements of...
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  • Peter Whiffle
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    Peter Whiffle

    Peter Whiffle (1922) is a novel by Carl Van Vechten. Framing himself as his character's literary executor, Van Vechten provides a satirical self portrait of his unusual life in the arts through the...
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  • Scenes from the Underground
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    Scenes from the Underground

    Finalist, Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging WritersI have just heard for the first time the expression "to make soup": it means to mix the bottom-of-the-pocket drugs of everyone...
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  • The Road to Walden North
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    The Road to Walden North

    In The Road to Walden North, New England author Sheila Post offers timely insights for a new age still grappling with issues raised by Thoreau over 150 years ago. An elegiac Walden revisited, this...
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    Planning for Escape
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    Planning for Escape

    Planning for Escape is the haunting, darkly comical, story of a young woman's quest for personal and artistic fulfillment-a goal she is brilliant at sabotaging. Narrated through an intense, witty,...
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