Kertomakirjallisuus
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The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 : Leatherstocking Tales Series, Book 2
Cooper, James FenimoreDuke Classics 2022The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, and remains his best-known work. It is a historical novel set in the French and Indian war...
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The Tale of Cupid & Psyches
Apuleius, LuciusDuke Classics 2022The first known record of the the poignant tale of Psyche's labors to reclaim the love of Cupid is recorded by Lucius Apuleius in the second century AD. When the beautiful Psyche a...
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The Pickwick Papers : Or, the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Dickens, CharlesDuke Classics 2022The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first published novel and the first ever publishing phenomenon with illegal copies, theatrical performances and merchandise. It follows the travels...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, CharlesDuke Classics 2022"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Charles Dickens', A Tale of Two Cities, begins with these famous words. On the eve of the French Revolution of 1789, the stor...
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The Portrait of a Lady
James, HenryDuke Classics 2022The Portrait of a Lady is perhaps Henry James' greatest novel. It tells the story of Isabel Archer, a young American heiress who "affronts her destiny". Dealing with one of James'...
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The Seagull : A Play In Four Acts
Chekhov, AntonDuke Classics 2022The Seagull is the first of Anton Checkov's four full-length plays. It explores the romantic and artistic tension in the relationships between a young woman, a fading older lady, h...
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Great Expectations
Dickens, CharlesDuke Classics 2024Pip is content with his simple life until a bitter gentlewoman employs him as a sometime companion to herself and her adopted daughter. Pip then aspires to become a gentleman himse...
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Mary Barton
Gaskell, ElizabethDuke Classics 2022The first novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton was published in 1848. It tells of the plight of the lower class in Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s. Contrast...
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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...