 |  Candide
by Voltaire
Francois-Marie Arouet
One of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. Witty, caustic skewering of romance, science, philosophy, religion, government — nearly all human ideals and institutions.
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|  Chelkash and Other Stories
by Maxim Gorky
Includes the title story, in which a thieving vagrant takes on a young apprentice; "Twenty-six Men and A Girl," in which wretched bakery workers destroy their only source of joy; and "Makar Chudra." read more
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|  Civil War Short Stories and Poems
by Bob Blaisdell
Compiled by an expert on Civil War literature, this anthology offers an outstanding selection of short works. Includes stories and poems by Whitman, Melville, Longfellow, Bierce, Alcott, Twain, Whittier, and many others. read more
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|  Civil War Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Sixteen dark and vivid tales by great satirist: "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chicakamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," more. Note. read more
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|  Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Charles Dickens and Others
by John Grafton
Eleven thrilling tales, featuring works by the finest masters of the genre: Mary E. Wilkins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Henry James, J. S. LeFanu, Ralph Cram, Mrs. Henry Wood, and more.
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|  Classic Mystery Stories
by Douglas G. Greene
Thirteen classics devoted to genuine tales of ratiocination include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Charles Dickens' "Three Detective Anecdotes," and Jack London's "The Leopard Man Story." Introduction. Notes. read more
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|  Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell
A sensitive and moving portrait of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s, Cranford recounts the events and activities in the lives of a group of spinsters and widows. read more
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|  Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Constance Garnett
Supreme masterpiece tells the story of Raskolnikov, a student tormented by his own thoughts after he murders an old woman. Overwhelmed by guilt and terror, he confesses and goes to prison. read more
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|  Daisy Miller
by Henry James
Famous novella, rich in psychological and social insight, chronicles a young American girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences.
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|  David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
Based on the author's own life, this epic traces David's progress from his mother's sheltering arms to boarding-school and sweatshop to the rewards of friendship, romance, and self-discovery in his vocation as a writer. read more
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|  Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service. A comic masterpiece. read more
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|  Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
Stanley Appelbaum
Celebrated novella of a middle-aged German writer's tormented passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, and its tragic consequences. New translation with extensive commentary. read more
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