Kertomakirjallisuus
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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 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...
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The Golden Ass : The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius
Apuleius, LuciusDuke Classics 2022The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius is the only complete Latin novel to have survived to this day. Lucius of Maudorus is insatiably curious about magic, but when he tries to magic...
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The Valley of Decision
Wharton, EdithDuke Classics 2022In her own lifetime, Edith Wharton's talents were often pigeonholed and downplayed as appealing to only a small audience of upper-crust society doyennes. Today, however, critics re...
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The Heritage of the Desert : A Novel
Grey, ZaneDuke Classics 2022Zane Grey, renowned as an author for his portrayals of the rugged Wild West, completed his first Western, The Heritage of the Desert, in just four months in 1910. This compelling w...
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The Buddhist Catechism
Olcott, Henry SteelDuke Classics 2022A founding member of the Theosophical Society, and perhaps the first well-known European to convert to Buddhism, Henry Steel Olcott made a lasting contribution with his Buddhist Ca...
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Ethan Frome
Wharton, EdithDuke Classics 2022In the fictional New England town of Starkfield, an unnamed narrator is forced to stay at the home of Ethan Frome during a winter storm. He relates his encounter with Frome, "the m...
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Paradise Lost
Milton, JohnDuke Classics 2023Paradise Lost is one of the most epic, complex theological works to date. Milton's masterpiece in blank verse tells the story of the fall from grace. His protagonist is often read...
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Bierce, AmbroseDuke Classics 2023An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge opens with the story's hero, Peyton Farquhar, hanging bound from a bridge, awaiting hanging. Farquhar is a Confederate sympathizer in the American...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Sir Arthur ConanDuke Classics 2024The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle starring the great detective of Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes. Wealthy landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is...
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The Swiss Family Robinson : Or Adventures in a Desert Island
Wyss, Johann DavidDuke Classics 2024The Swiss Family Robinson tells the story of a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies. First published in 1812, Johann David Wyss intended the novel to teach his sons...
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Eugenie Grandet
Balzac, Honore deDuke Classics 2022A daughter inherits her father's miserliness, which stifles her relationship with her cousin, making love an unsatisfying experience. As with Balzac's other work, his characters in...
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The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale
Conrad, JosephDuke Classics 2022The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is an example of Conrad's later political writing, which moved away from his earlier, seafaring tales. The spy Mr. Verloc moves through London where...
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Evelina : Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
Burney, FrancesDuke Classics 2021Evelina is the daughter of an English aristocrat, but is brought up in the country until her seventeenth birthday, because she is of dubious birth and unacknowledged. Once out in L...