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The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The Odyssey

by Homer

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The Trojan War is over. A hero longs for home. And his wife, ever faithful, longs for his return. So begins The Odyssey, Homer's epic tale of the warrior Odysseus's journey home. Although the fighting at Troy has finished, Odysseus's battles are far from over. More than anything he wishes to return to Ithaca, where his wife Penelope has been waiting for him—and fending off suitors—for many years. But separating Odysseus from that happy reunion is a vast sea, full of otherworldly creatures and untold dangers. It is the realm of gods and heroes, where the monsters of myth and legend may lie just around any bend. Lured by the song of the Sirens and threatened by the menacing Cyclops Polyphemus, mighty Odysseus must draw on all his strengths to elude catastrophe and make his way back, finally, to what he treasures most—home.

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Evelina

by Frances Burney

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Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

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Clarissa Volume I

by Samuel Richardson

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

by Oscar Wilde

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De Profundis

by Oscar Wilde

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Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer

by Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Theogony

by Hesiod

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