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Literary Fiction

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May Sinclair - Tree of Heaven

One of the most heart-breaking of all World War I novels, this family epic was written in the midst of the War itself, and shows the intense emotion generated in ordinary lives by that tragedy. May Sinclair...

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Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation)

Humorous Fiction

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Unknown - Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation)

A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid homage in Cervantes’ Don Quixote . Rendered homeless by the arrest of his...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Basil Hall Chamberlain - Aino Folk-Tales

Not for the squeamish or for children, these folk-tales are from the Ainu, the somewhat mysterious indigenous people of Japan, thousands of whom still live in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Ranging over all...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Knud Rasmussen - Eskimo Folk-Tales

Quote: «No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimo origin; his childhood was spent in Greenland, and to Greenland he returned...

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Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation)

Humorous Fiction

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation)

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire...

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Literary Fiction

422

Sigrid Undset - Jenny

Jenny Winge is a Norwegian expatriate studying art in Rome, part of a Bohemian group of friends who explore the ancient City in an intoxicating passion for Beauty. Yearning for an immortal Love, she allows herself to...

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Master Builder (Gosse & Archer Translation)

Tragedy

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Henrik Ibsen - Master Builder (Gosse & Archer Translation)

Halvard Solness is a master architect who has ruthlessly forged a preëminent career without regard for the feelings of those around him. In spite of this unscrupulous path of life, his conscience is still painfully...

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Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Ormsby Translation)

Humorous Fiction

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Ormsby Translation)

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire...

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Modern

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May Sinclair - New Idealism

The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossified in an outdated way of thought or of Art. Though a generation older than the...

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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May Sinclair - Flaw in the Crystal

One of May Sinclair’s “uncanny” stories, this novella explores many of Sinclair’s most treasured themes: the bounds of marriage, the conflict between flesh and spirit, the complexity of human emotions in relation to...

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Literary Fiction

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May Sinclair - Creators: A Comedy

Jane Holland is a genius, the greatest of a group of extraordinary literary friends. She has an intense artistic and intellectual kinship with George Tanqueray, another remarkable novelist. Despite this keen spiritual...

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Saga of the Greenlanders (Reeves Translation)

Middle Ages/Middle History

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Unknown - Saga of the Greenlanders (Reeves Translation)

The Saga of the Greenlanders is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, along with the Saga of Erik the Red. The two accounts describe many of the...

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