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Frederick Douglass · West India Emancipation
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Mary Wollstonecraft · A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Henry David Thoreau · Walden
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Walt Whitman · Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass
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Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
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Lewis Carroll · Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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Ralph Waldo Emerson · Self-Reliance, Essays
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Emily Dickinson · Hope, Poems: Second Series
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Oscar Wilde · The Importance of Being Earnest
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George Eliot · Middlemarch
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William Shakespeare · Hamlet
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Jane Austen · Emma
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Charlotte Brontë · Jane Eyre
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Herman Melville · Moby-Dick
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Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere’s Fan
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Abraham Lincoln · Gettysburg Address (Nicolay draft)
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George Eliot · Adam Bede
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Charles Dickens · A Tale of Two Cities
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W. E. B. Du Bois · The Souls of Black Folk
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Booker T. Washington · Up from Slavery
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Southern Horrors
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Paul Laurence Dunbar · We Wear the Mask, Complete Poems
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Phillis Wheatley · On Imagination, Poems on Various Subjects
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Charles Darwin · On the Origin of Species
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Michael Faraday · The Chemical History of a Candle
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Mark Twain · Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Laozi · The Tao Teh King
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Confucius · The Analects
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Frederick Douglass · Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Rabindranath Tagore · Gitanjali, poem 35
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Kahlil Gibran · On Children, The Prophet
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Abraham Lincoln · A Legacy of Fun
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Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay · The Federalist Papers
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Alexandre Dumas · The Count of Monte Cristo
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Alexis de Tocqueville · Democracy in America — Volume 1
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Alexis de Tocqueville · Democracy in America — Volume 2
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Anne Brontë · The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Anonymous · The Dhammapada
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Anonymous · The Song Celestial; or, Bhagavad-Gita
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Anton Chekhov · Plays by Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov · The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
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Aristotle · Politics
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Aristotle · The Nicomachean Ethics
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Arthur Conan Doyle · The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Arthur Schopenhauer · Studies in Pessimism
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Babe Ruth · Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball
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Benedictus de Spinoza · Ethics
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Blaise Pascal · Pascal's Pensées
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Charles Darwin · The Descent of Man
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Charles Darwin · The Voyage of the Beagle
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Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens · David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens · Great Expectations
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Charles Dickens · The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Charles W. Chesnutt · The House Behind the Cedars
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Charlie Chaplin · My Wonderful Visit
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Christina Rossetti · Goblin Market and Other Poems
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Daniel Defoe · Robinson Crusoe
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Dante Alighieri · The Divine Comedy
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Don Marquis · The Cruise of the Jasper B.
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Edgar Allan Poe · The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe · The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
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Edmund Burke · Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Sonnets from the Portuguese
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Emily Brontë · Wuthering Heights
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Epictetus · Discourses and Encheiridion
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Francis Bacon · New Atlantis
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Francis Bacon · The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
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Frederick Douglass · West India Emancipation
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Friedrich Nietzsche · Beyond Good and Evil
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Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spake Zarathustra
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Fyodor Dostoevsky · Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov
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George Bernard Shaw · Major Barbara
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George Bernard Shaw · Man and Superman
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George Bernard Shaw · Pygmalion
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George Eliot · Silas Marner
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George Eliot · The Mill on the Floss
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George Sand · Indiana
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Grantland Rice · Base-ball Ballads
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Gustave Flaubert · Madame Bovary
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H. G. Wells · The Time Machine
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H. G. Wells · The War of the Worlds
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Harriet Jacobs · Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Henry David Thoreau · On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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Herman Melville · Bartleby, the Scrivener
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Honoré de Balzac · Modeste Mignon
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett · The Red Record
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Immanuel Kant · Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
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Jacob Grimm · Grimm's Fairy Stories
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Jane Austen · Persuasion
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Jane Austen · Sense and Sensibility
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John Keats · Poems 1817
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John Milton · Areopagitica
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John Milton · Paradise Lost
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John Montgomery Ward · Base-Ball: How to Become a Player
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John Stuart Mill · On Liberty
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John Stuart Mill · The Subjection of Women
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John Stuart Mill · Utilitarianism
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Jonathan Swift · Gulliver's Travels
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Joseph Conrad · Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad · Lord Jim
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Joseph Conrad · The Arrow of Gold
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Lady Augusta Gregory · Seven Short Plays
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Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace
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Lewis Carroll · Through the Looking-Glass
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Lord Byron · Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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Louisa May Alcott · Little Women
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca · On Benefits
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Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
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Mark Twain · A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Mark Twain · A Tramp Abroad
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Mark Twain · The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Mary Kingsley · Travels in West Africa
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Mary Shelley · Frankenstein
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Michel de Montaigne · Essays of Montaigne
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Miguel de Cervantes · Don Quixote
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Nathaniel Hawthorne · The House of the Seven Gables
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Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter
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Olive Schreiner · The Story of an African Farm
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Olive Schreiner · Woman and Labour
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Oscar Wilde · De Profundis
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Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Patañjali · The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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Plato · Apology
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Plato · The Republic
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Rabindranath Tagore · Stray Birds
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René Descartes · Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason
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Robert Louis Stevenson · Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Robert Louis Stevenson · Treasure Island
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Rupert Brooke · The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge · The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Sarojini Naidu · The Golden Threshold
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Selma Lagerlöf · The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Sojourner Truth · The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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Thomas Henry Huxley · Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
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Thomas Paine · Common Sense
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Thomas Paine · Rights of Man
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Vachel Lindsay · The Art of the Moving Picture
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Victor Hugo · Les Misérables
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Voltaire · A Philosophical Dictionary
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Voltaire · Candide
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Walter Camp · American Football
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Washington Irving · The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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William Ewart Gladstone · On Books and the Housing of Them
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William H. Edwards · Football Days
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William James · The Principles of Psychology
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William James · The Varieties of Religious Experience
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William Shakespeare · As You Like It
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William Shakespeare · Julius Caesar
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William Shakespeare · King Lear
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William Shakespeare · Macbeth
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William Shakespeare · Much Ado About Nothing
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William Shakespeare · Romeo and Juliet
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William Shakespeare · Shakespeare's Sonnets
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William Shakespeare · The Tempest
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William Wordsworth · The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
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Zitkala-Sa · American Indian Stories
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Zitkala-Sa · Old Indian Legends
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