Narrative literature
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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 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...