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| Title: Beowulf |
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Anonymous
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| The classic eighth-century English poem is strikingly presented, making accessible the story of a young man''s heroic journey to find and slay two monsters. Ages 11-up.', 'The classic eighth-century English poem is strikingly presented, making accessible |
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| Title: Canterbury Tales |
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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| The Canterbury Tales have become one of the best of medieval literature. \r\n\r\nTranslated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English lif |
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| Title: Casanova |
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Giacomo Casanova
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| Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, Good Samaritan, spy, swashbuckler, self-made gentleman, entrepreneur, poet, translator, philosopher, and general bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover the Western world has known but al |
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| Title: The Divine Comedy |
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Dante Alighieri
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| Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal |
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| Title: Gorgias |
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Plato
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| Taking the form of a dialogue among Socrates, Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles, the Gorgias debates crucial questions about the nature of government. While the aspiring politician Callicles propounds the view that might is right, and the rhetorician Gorgias |
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| Title: Herland |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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| On the eve of World War I, an all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male explorers who are now forced to re-examine their assumptions about women's roles in society.
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| Title: Huckleberry Finn |
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Mark Twain
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| Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. More than a century after its publication it remains a major work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adve |
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