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(William) Winwood Reade - Outcast

For many nineteenth-century Christians, the new biological and geological discoveries of that era brought on severe crises of faith. Winwood Reade’s small epistolary novel “The Outcast” tells the story of a young man...

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Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler (version 2)

Hedda Gabler has just returned from her honeymoon. She has married out of ennui, and is already heartily sick of her husband, who is a plodding, pedantic academic. Upon moving into her new Christiania home, she soon...

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Anton Chekhov - Three Years

Laptev, the rich but unattractive scion of a merchant, renounces his independent-minded, intelligent, devoted, but equally unattractive mistress Polina in order to marry the beautiful young gold-digger Yulia. Their...

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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John Buchan - Power-House

The Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England. It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916. The narrator is the...

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Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue

Philosophy

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Jonathan Edwards - Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue

Disproportionately remembered as a hellfire-and-brimstone Puritan preacher on the basis of the excessively-anthologized «Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,» Jonathan Edwards was a noted philosopher in the field of...

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Anton Chekhov - Anonymous Story

In «An Anonymous Story,» Chekhov continues to explore his favorite themes of superfluous men, ironic rakes, exploited women, and the dangers of social conventions to human happiness. The Anonymous Narrator is a...

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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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Philosophy

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Leo Tolstoy - My Confession

«My Confession» is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It describes his search for answers to the profound questions «What will come of my life?»...

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Drama

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Henrik Ibsen - Little Eyolf (Mencken Translation)

One of the four profound plays of Ibsen’s late period (along with “The Master Builder,” “John Gabriel Borkman,” and “When We Dead Awaken”), “Little Eyolf” tells the story of Albert Allmers, a writer who has yearned to...

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I've Come to Stay: A Love Comedy of Bohemia

Romance

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Mary Heaton Vorse - I've Come to Stay: A Love Comedy of Bohemia

An iconoclast in many fields herself, Mary Heaton Vorse was fascinated with Bohemia, the colorful unboundaried land of poets and artists and philosophers, a place whose denizens lived by their own rules without regard...

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Tragedy

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Aeschylus - Agamemnon (Morshead Translation)

The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father's murder. The...

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Wassily Kandinsky - Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Published in 1911, Kandinsky's book compares the spiritual life of humanity to a pyramid — the artist has a mission to lead others to the pinnacle with his work. The point of the pyramid is those few, great artists....

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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