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Meditations
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A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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Little Dorrit
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Captain Blood: His Odyssey
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The Forsyte Saga
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The Man Who Was Thursday
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Early History of Rome
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Garden Party and Other Stories
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
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The Outline of History, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Lives of the Caesars
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Plutarch's Lives, Vol 1
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The Second Treatise of Government
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The History of the English Church and People
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The Riddle of the Sands
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The Travels
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Bartleby the Scrivener and The Confidence Man
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The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Eminent Victorians
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Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
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The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story
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The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
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Politics
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On the Nature of Things
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The Golden Ass or, the Metamorphoses (Library of Essential Reading Series)
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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The Annals of Imperial Rome
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The Story of an African Farm
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
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The City of God
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Lives. Vol 2
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One Hundred and One Famous Poems
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Green Mansions
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Personal Memoirs
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The Worm Ouroboros
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Memoirs
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Spoon River Anthology
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Diary of an Old Soul
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Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War
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Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth
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The Mabinogion
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A Diary From Dixie (1905)
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Ethics/On the Improvement of the Understanding
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Call of Cthulhu & Other Dark Tales
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Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Discourse on Method
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The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
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Early Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Democracy in America: Volumes I and II
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The Complete Works of Saki
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Love and Friendship and Other Early Works
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The Complete Nonsense Books of Edward Lear
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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Cranford
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A Hero of Our Time
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The Return of the Soldier
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The Charterhouse of Parma
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Three Early Novels: Liza of Lambeth, Mrs. Craddock, The Magician.
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Voyage of the Beagle
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The Gambler
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Crome Yellow
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Alexander's Bridge
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Rob Roy (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
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The Song of the Lark
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani
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The Subjection of Women
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My Ántonia
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The Kama Sutra and Ananga Ranga
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Conversations with Socrates
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The Education of Henry Adams
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Tales from Shakespeare
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How We Think
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan
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Nicomachean Ethics
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From Manassas to Appomatox
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The Sense of Beauty Library of Essential Reading Series
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The Rough Riders
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The Civil War
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The American Crisis
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The Conquest of Gaul
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The Innocence and Wisdom of Father Brown
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Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends
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From Ritual to Romance
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Leonardo da Vinci & a Memory of His Childhood
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The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
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The Worst Journey in the World
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Yes -- I've added it to the list description above.
No problem ... was going to do that anyway! :)
I can't, in all honesty, recommend these particular editions of the works that are translated into English (for instance, Jowett's Plato is strictly for masochists), but those books I picked on their more general merits.
Marquis de Sade is not essential reading, not erotic either--it's garbage written by a sick fuck who mutilated and killed young women. This reco is a bit like those assholes who say, "Ya know, Hitler had some good ideas.....". Simone de Beauvoir put it best:" DeSade set out to bugger the world, and the world answered him with silence."
Thom wrote: "Marquis de Sade is not essential reading, not erotic either--it's garbage written by a sick fuck who mutilated and killed young women. This reco is a bit like those assholes who say, "Ya know, Hitler had some good ideas.....""Right on, Thom.
Thom wrote: "Marquis de Sade is not essential reading, not erotic either--it's garbage written by a sick fuck who mutilated and killed young women. This reco is a bit like those assholes who say, "Ya know, Hitl..."Thank you, Thom!
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