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Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience presents a philosophical reflection on how to live deliberately while confronting the moral deman…
The innocence of Father Brown
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton is a collection of early 20th-century detective stories centered on Father Brown, a humble English priest known fo…
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s mid-19th-century novel examines the moral complexities of slavery in America through the lives of people affected by the institution. Set in…
My Bondage and My Freedom
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative by Frederick Douglass, published in 1855 as the second of his three autobiographies. Building on hi…
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella published in 1884 by Edwin Abbott Abbott. The story takes place in a two-dimensional world where geome…
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
Project Gutenberg
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28, is presented as a historical reference work drawn from an older encyclopedia edition. It begins by explaining th…
The Project Gutenberg RST Manual
Perathoner, Marcello
The Project Gutenberg RST Manual by Marcello Perathoner is a technical guide focused on using Project Gutenberg’s ReStructuredText (RST) workflow to convert text fi…
The 1994 CIA World Factbook
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
The 1994 CIA World Factbook, published by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, is a reference-style compendium that compiles global information across dem…
The Europeans
James, Henry, 1843-1916
The Europeans, by Henry James, is a novel first published in 1878. Two sophisticated siblings from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, travel to puritanical New England to m…
Confidence
James, Henry, 1843-1916
“Confidence” is a novel by Henry James first published in 1879. Set in a social world where relationships are constantly interpreted and reinterpreted, it centers o…
The American
James, Henry, 1843-1916
The novel The American by Henry James, published in 1877, follows Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman who travels to Europe in search of culture and …
Roderick Hudson
James, Henry, 1843-1916
Rowland Mallet, a wealthy Boston art patron, encounters a talented young sculptor, Roderick Hudson, and decides to sponsor his artistic education in Rome. Although …
The Phantom of the Opera
Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927
First published in 1909–1910, this Gothic horror novel by Gaston Leroux is set under the grand Paris Opera House, where a mysterious, disfigured figure known as the…
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, is a Gothic horror and philosophical novel published in 1890. It centers on a beautiful young man whose wish becomes rea…
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
Rohmer, Sax, 1883-1959
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1913 novel by Sax Rohmer. It follows Dr. Petrie after Nayland Smith arrives unexpectedly from Burma and shares news of a sinister t…