Kauno
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The Second Deluge
Serviss, Garrett P.Duke Classics 2022The Second Deluge is a science fiction novel by Garrett P. Serviss, who climbed Matterhorn in order "to get as far away from terrestrial gravity as possible." It tells the story o...
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Essays in the Art of Writing
Stevenson, Robert LouisDuke Classics 2022Although several of Robert Louis Stevenson's major works -- Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- have been enshrined in the Western canon of p...
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The Go-Getter : A Story That Tells You How to be One
Kyne, Peter B.Duke Classics 2021First published in 1921 by American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, The Go-Getter is the timeless and moving parable of World War I veter...
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Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson, Robert LouisDuke Classics 2022G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins." This collection o...
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The Master of Ballantrae : A Winter's Tale
Stevenson, Robert LouisDuke Classics 2022The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels. Two brothers are brought into conflict by the Jacobite rising of 1745, which tears th...
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The Professor
Brontë, CharlotteDuke Classics 2022The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Brontë wrote, but was only published posthumously. It follows the journey of William Crimsworth into maturity, showing his loves and the...
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Pride and Prejudice
Austen, JaneDuke Classics 2024Pride and Prejudice is one of the most beloved novels of all time. Elizabeth Bennett, the book's poverty-bound heroine has charmed readers with her wit and sincerity since the book...
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The Golden Bough : A Study of Magic and Religion
Frazer, James GeorgeDuke Classics 2022Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a broad comparative study of mythology and religion. Treating religion as a cultural phenomenon rather...
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The Woman in White
Collins, WilkieDuke Classics 2024The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre. A young woman's husband defrauds her of her fortune, her i...
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Le Cid
Corneille, PierreDuke Classics 2022Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of the same name. It tells the story of Rodrigue and Chimene, whose fathers' feud violently interrupts their love. Thou...
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A Doll's House
Ibsen, HenrikDuke Classics 2024When A Doll's House was first published in 1879 it created a sensation. The play follows the ordinary life of a housewife. Gradually the tensions within her marriage become clear a...
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A Princess of Mars : John Carter of Mars Series, Book 1
Burroughs, Edgar RiceDuke Classics 2022A Princess of Mars is the first in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series. This science fiction planetary romance, packed full of dangerous feats and swordplay, is set on a dying Mar...
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An Ideal Husband
Wilde, OscarDuke Classics 2022Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption. The action takes place over three days in London, and it questions ideas of public and pri...
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The Sea Wolf
London, JackDuke Classics 2022Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf became an instant bestseller on its release in 1904. Ambrose Bierce wrote "The great thing - and it is among the greatest of things - is that treme...
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Gulliver's Travels : Into Several Remote Nations of the World
Swift, JonathanDuke Classics 2024Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel recounts the history of Lemuel Gulliver, "First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships". In h...
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The Iliad
HomerDuke Classics 2024An epic tale of love and betrayal, war and hope The Iliad is the first of two legendary ancient poems attributed to the Greek bard Homer. Typically dated between the 8th and 7th ce...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare, WilliamDuke Classics 2024The Taming of the Shrew is perhaps one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays by modern standards. Hinging on the courtship between the arrogant Petruchio and the "shrew" of the...
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Dracula
Stoker, BramDuke Classics 2024Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula, may not be the first vampire novel, but it is certainly the most famous. These scenarios couldn't be more different than the conservative Victori...
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Pride and Prejudice
Austen, JaneDuke Classics 2024Mr and Mrs Bennet have five unmarried daughters. When the amiable Mr Bingly moves into the neighbourhood, Mrs Bennet therefore feels entirely sure that he is meant for one of her g...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert LouisDuke Classics 2024The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is Robert Louis Stevenson's thriller allegory of a medical experiment gone wrong and dual personalities, one the essence of good, the othe...