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    Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
    by C.W. Ceram

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    Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
    by Erica Reiner

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    The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Homer

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    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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    The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
    by M. C. Howatson

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    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

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    Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Vol II: In Search of the Divine Centre
    by Werner; Highet, Gilbert Jaeger

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    The Analects (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Confucius

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    A Short History of Chinese Philosophy
    by Yu-lan Fung

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    The World of Thought in Ancient China (Belknap Press)
    by Benjamin I. Schwartz

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    The Complete Greek Tragedies : A Centennial Edition
    by David Grene

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    Greek Tragedy
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    Sophoclean tragedy
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    Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
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    Euripides and His Age
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    Euripides and the Tragic Tradition (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
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    The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
    by Robert B. Strassler

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    The Ancient Greek Historians
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    Herodotus: Father of History.
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    The Landmark Thucydides

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    Historical Commentary on Thucydides. 5 Vols.
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    A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24
    by Simon Hornblower

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    A Commentary on Thucydides
    by Simon Hornblower

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    Four Comedies (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
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    Three Comedies (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
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    Greek Philosophers
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    The Trial of Socrates
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    Aristotle and His Philosophy
    by Abraham Edel

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    Mencius (Penguin Classics)
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    "Mahabharata" of Vyasa
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    The Bhagavad-Gita : Krishna's Counsel in Time of War
    by Barbara Miller

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    Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty
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    Records of the Grand Historian
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    Ssu-ma Ch'ien: Grand Historian of China.
    by Burton. WATSON

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    Chinese Traditional Historiography
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    Historians of China and Japan
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    The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura
    by Lucretius

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    History of Rome
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    The Romans (Pelican Book)
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    History of Latin Literature
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    Virgil
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    The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers.
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    The Portable Marcus Aurelius

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    Marcus Aurelius (Roman Imperial Biographies (Paperback))
    by Anthony Birley

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    Kalidasa
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    Kalidasa; Poet of Nature
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    Kalidasa
    by K Krishnamoorthy

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    The Sanskrit Drama in Its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice
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    Rahnamaye Mohtaviyate: Guide to the Contents of the Koran
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    Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
    by Karen Armstrong

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    History of the Arab Peoples
    by Albert Hourani

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    The Arabs in History
    by Bernard Lewis

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    Buddhism in China
    by Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en

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    An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
    by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

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    Epic and Sedition: A Case of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh
    by Dick Davis

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    The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (Classics S.)
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    The Tale of Genji
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    The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of the "Tale of Genji"
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    The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (Penguin Classics)
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    In Search of Omar Khayyam (Persian studies monographs)
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    The Divine Comedy: Hell (Penguin Classics)
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    The Divine Comedy, Part 2: Purgatory
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    Dante Alighieri
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    A Brief History of Chinese Fiction
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    The Riverside Chaucer (Oxford Paperbacks)
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    Geoffrey Chaucer
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    Geoffrey Chaucer of England, written and decorated by Marchette Chute
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    The Prince (Oxford World's Classics)
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    The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli
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    The Life of Francois Rabelais
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    Journey to the West (4-Volume Boxed Set)
    by Cheng'en Wu

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    Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
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    Montaigne: A Biography
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    The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition
    by Virginia Woolf

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    The Portable Cervantes (Penguin Classics)
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    Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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    SHAKESPEARE: A Biography
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    Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
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    Shakespeare
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    John Donne: A Life
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    John Donne's Poetry.
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    John Donne, a Study in Discord
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    The Donne Tradition
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    A Garland For John Donne 1631 - 1931
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    Galileo: A Life
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    Leviathan. Thomas Hobbes (Oxford World's Classics)
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    HOBBES
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    Hobbes: Morals and Politics
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    René Descartes: A biography (Library of great lives)
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    Descartes
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    A History of Western Philosophy
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    The Portable Milton (Viking Portable Library)
    by John Milton

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    Milton - A Biography (2 vols)
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    John Milton, Englishman
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    Milton: E.M.W. Tillyard
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    The Misanthrope and Tartuffe
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    Moliere. A Playwright and His Audience.
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    Moliere : His Life and Works
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    Pensees (Penguin Classics)
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    Pascal His Life & Works
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    The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
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    John Bunyan
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    The Second Treatise of Government
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    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
    by John Locke

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    John Locke: A Biography (Oxford Paperback Reference)
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    Matsuo Basho (Illustrated Japanese Classics)
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    Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen
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    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
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    Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics)
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    Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (Oxford World's Classics)
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    Daniel Defoe: Citizen of the modern world
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    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
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    The Portable Swift (Viking Portable Library)
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    Jonathan Swift (University Paperbacks)
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    Candide and Philosophical Letters (Modern Library)
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    The Portable Voltaire

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    Voltaire (Twayne's World Authors Series)
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    The Life of David Hume
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    Tom Jones. Henry Fielding (Oxford World's Classics)
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    Joseph Andrews and Shamela (Oxford World's Classics)
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    Jonathan Wild (Oxford World's Classics)
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    The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures
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    Twentieth Century Views: FIELDING. A Collection of Critical Essays, Edited By Ronald Paulson.
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    Henry Fielding : His Life, Works, and Times. Two Volume Set, 2 Volumes.
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    The Confessions (Penguin Classics)
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    The Social Contract and The Discourses (Everyman's Library)
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    Rousseau: Confessions (Landmarks of World Literature)
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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    Sentimental Journey (Everyman Paperback Classics)
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    Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics)
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    The Journey Western Islands Scotland (Penguin Classics)
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    Johnson and Boswell: Story of Their Lives
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    Basic Documents in American History (Anvil Series)
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    The Federalist Papers
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    Faust: Part One (Oxford World's Classics)
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    Faust: Part Two (Oxford World's Classics) (Pt. 2)
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    Goethe: The History of a Man
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    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
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    The Portable Blake
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    Life of William Blake
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    William Blake and the age of revolution
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    Blake
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    Poetical Works (Oxford Standard Authors)
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    Biographia Literaria (Everyman Paperback Classics)
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    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
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    Coleridge
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    The Road To Xanadu - A Study In The Ways Of the Imagination
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    Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets.
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    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
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    Emma (Riverside Editions)
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    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters

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    Jane Austen: A Life
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    The Red and the Black (Signet Classics)
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    The Charterhouse of Parma (Signet Classics)
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    Stendhal or the Pursuit of Happiness
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    Pere Goriot (Signet Classics)
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    Eugenie Grandet (Everyman's Library Classics)
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    Cousin Bette: Poor Relations, part one (Penguin Classics)
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    Henry James, The Future of the Novel
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    Balzac;
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays and Lectures (Library of America)
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    Rusk: The Life of R W Emerson (Cloth)
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    Flowering of New England 1815 1865
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    American Renaissance: Art And Expression In The Age Of Emerson And Whitman
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    Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
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    Emerson among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait
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    Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Centennial Books)
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne : Tales and Sketches (Library of America)
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne : A Biography
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    Tocqueville in America
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    The Life of John Stuart Mill by Michael St. John Packe
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    English Utilitarians
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    The Original and Complete On the Origin of Species by Darwin
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    The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics)
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    Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary (1831-1836)
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    The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882
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    Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
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    Dead Souls
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    The Diary of a Madman, and Other Stories
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    Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
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    An Outline of Russian Literature
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    Nikolai Gogol
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    Gogol, a Life.
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    Edgar Allan Poe : Poetry and Tales (Library of America)
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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    The Raven and the Whale
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    Edgar Allen Poe : a Study in Genius
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    Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (Oxford World's Classics)
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    The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (The World's Classics)
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    An Uneasy Victorian. Thackeray the Man.
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    Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    David Copperfield (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics)
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