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The Garden of Eden
There was a belief that based on the Mayan Calendar the earth ought to be doomed. This fictional work of science engages in that phenomenon possibly giving the hope for a safer and nicer Earth...
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Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World update
The four-volume satirical book Gulliver s Travels was originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World and was published anonymously in 1726 by the Anglo-Irish poet Jonathan Swift un..
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, an early version of which appeared in Lippincott s Monthly Magazine in 1890, is a moral fantasy novel. When published in book form in 1891, Wilde s one and o..
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Ten Years Later
The historical fiction "Ten Years Later" by Alexandre Dumas is included in this volume. This is the second part of the last d Artagnan Romance, which was serialised between 1847 and 1850. It follows ..
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The Borgias Celebrated Crimes
Alexandre Dumas, with major assistance from other writers, produced 18 pieces on some of Europe s most infamous murders between 1839 and 1841. These featured some of the hot, trending cases of Dumas d..
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The Man in the Iron Mask
For several years, a man who has been kept in isolation suffers in a prison cell. He is under strict orders to avoid communication with outsiders at all costs. Iron masks are frequently used to concea..
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The Queen's Necklace
Inspired by the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an incident which took place in the 1780s at the court of Louis XVI involving a precious diamond necklace and Marie Antoinette, The Queen s Necklace tel..
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The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
American author and illustrator Howard Pyle published a children's book titled The Story of King Arthur and His Knights in 1903. The book is a collection of tales about the fabled King Arthur of Brita..
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The Yellow Wallpaper
American author Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") was first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. Due to..
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A Journey into the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne, a renowned French author, wrote the novel A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Voyage au centre de la Terre), which was first published in 1864. It is the second volume in his well-known..
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce's autobiographical book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which was serialised in The Egoist from 1914 to 1916 and then published as a book in 1916, is often regarded as the best bi..
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A Room With a View
In his novel A Room with a View, E. M. Forster tells the tale of Lucy Honeychurch, a young upper-class woman who visits Florence in Italy. Through the entire book, Lucy struggles with cultural expecta..
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Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1
Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, written in Middle English prose about the year 1500, is a retelling of the legends of King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Tabl..
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