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A Tale of a Tub

by Jonathan Swift

A work of bizarre parody and countless literary magic tricks, Jonathan Swift’s 1704 work A Tale of a Tub is a witty religious treatise disguised as the simple fable of three brothers. Peter, Martin, ...

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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote is a reader who has lost sight of the horizon between fiction and reality. Full to the brim of tales of adventure and romance, Quixote comes to believe that he himself is a knight straight ...

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Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Becky Sharp is a keen navigator of the ranks of Victorian society. With no family fortune or pedigree to invite her into the finest circles, Becky relies on determination and her sly intelligence to p ...

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Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol

In provincial nineteenth century Russia, poor working people are considered the property of the landowners on whose farms they work. This human property—the serfs—are known as "souls& ...

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Utopia

by Thomas More

Readers may find themselves wishing they could live on the island described in Sir Thomas More’s 1516 work Utopia. More describes this wondrous island as a philosophical and political meditation on ...

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A Modest Proposal

by Jonathan Swift

In his 1729 essay A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift offers a scintillating parody of eternally popular cut-and-dry economic theory. To start, he describes, in heart-rending detail, the painful struggl ...

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Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

A vacation to the exotic location of Bath brings excitement and novelty to teenager Catherine Morland's life. Eager for a grand adventure to begin once she arrives, Catherine is delighted to receive t ...

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An Ideal Husband

by Oscar Wilde

Secrets and mistakes haunt a politician care of the most charming blackmailer one could ever meet. But the stakes are high when political power hangs in the balance, and the delicate game these charac ...

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Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

The story of Lemuel Gulliver and his many extraordinary voyages at sea has delighted readers for over 200 years. After a devastating shipwreck on his first foray onto the ocean, Gulliver finds himself ...

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The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

In the 1860s, Ambrose Bierce, a San Francisco humorist with a sharp wit for satire, purchased a copy of Webster’s Dictionary. Not content to let his agile mind sit idle even while consulting this re ...

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