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White Nights

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Letters to a Young Poet

By Rainer Maria Rilke

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The Communist Manifesto

By Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

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The Book of Tea

By Kakuzo Okakura

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A Nervous Breakdown

By Anton Chekhov

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To Be Read at Dusk

By Charles Dickens

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Why I Am so Clever

By Friedrich Nietzsche

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Matilda

By Mary Shelley

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Anecdotes of the Cynics

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The World is Full of Foolish Men

By Jean de la Fontaine

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A Modern Detective

By Edgar Allan Poe

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Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

By Oscar Wilde

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Tyger, Tyger

By William Blake

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The Body Politic

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun

By Emily Dickinson

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Lady Susan

By Jane Austen

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Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

By Dante Alighieri

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Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me?

By William Shakespeare

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Flush

By Virginia Woolf

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The Suffragettes

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A Terrible Beauty Is Born

By W B Yeats

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Little Black Classics Box Set

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

By Leo Tolstoy

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I Hate and I Love

By Catullus

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A Slip Under the Microscope

By H. G. Wells

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Woman Much Missed

By Thomas Hardy

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Well, They are Gone, and Here Must I Remain

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Wailing Ghosts

By Pu Songling

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Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls

By Marco Polo

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To-morrow

By Joseph Conrad

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Three Tang Dynasty Poets

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The Yellow Wall-Paper

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The Wife of Bath

By Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Tinderbox

By Hans Christian Andersen

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The Tell-Tale Heart

By Edgar Allan Poe

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The Stolen White Elephant

By Mark Twain

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The Steel Flea

By Nikolay Leskov

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The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue

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The Reckoning

By Edith Wharton

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The Old Nurse's Story

By Elizabeth Gaskell

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The Old Man of the Moon

By Shen Fu

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The Nose

By Nikolay Gogol

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The Night is Darkening Round Me

By Emily Brontë

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The Meek One

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Madness of Cambyses

By Herodotus

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The Life of a Stupid Man

By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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The Great Fire of London

By Samuel Pepys

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The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows

By Rudyard Kipling

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The Figure in the Carpet

By Henry James

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The Fall of Icarus

By Ovid

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The Eve of St Agnes

By John Keats

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The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon

By Aesop

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The Dhammapada

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The Constitution of the United States

By Founding Fathers

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The Beautifull Cassandra

By Jane Austen

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The Atheist's Mass

By Honoré de Balzac

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Socrates' Defence

By Plato

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Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Remember, Body...

By C. P. Cavafy

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On the Beach at Night Alone

By Walt Whitman

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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

By Thomas De Quincey

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Mrs Rosie and the Priest

By Giovanni Boccaccio

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Miss Brill

By Katherine Mansfield

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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

By Oscar Wilde

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Lips too Chilled

By Matsuo Basho

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Leonardo da Vinci

By Giorgio Vasari

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Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands

By Ivan Turgenev

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It Was Snowing Butterflies

By Charles Darwin

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How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing

By Michel de Montaigne

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How to Use Your Enemies

By Baltasar Gracián

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How Much Land Does A Man Need?

By Leo Tolstoy

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Gooseberries

By Anton Chekhov

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Goblin Market

By Christina Rossetti

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Femme Fatale

By Guy de Maupassant

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Come Close

By Sappho

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Circles of Hell

By Dante

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Circe and the Cyclops

By Homer

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A Simple Heart

By Gustave Flaubert

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Aphorisms on Love and Hate

By Friedrich Nietzsche

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Antigone

By Sophocles

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