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Selected Fairy Tales
Selected Fairy Tales refers to anthologies or canonical collections of traditional folk and fairy tales—most famously compiled by the Brothers Grimm (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm) in the 19th century (Kinder- und Hausmärchen, originally published starting in 1812). These collections gathered oral folklore from German and European traditions, preserving magical, moral, and often dark narratives th…
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- 3.823.0122.B.U
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes is the final collection of twelve short stories featuring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally published in magazines between 1921 and 1927 (and collected in book form in 1927), this volume marked the definitive end of the canonical Sherlock Holmes saga. Unlike earlier collections written in the late 19th and e…
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- 3.823.0125.B.U
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The story is set in Victorian London and follows Dorian Gray, an exceptionally handsome, innocent, and wealthy young man. While sitting for a portrait by the talented and infatuated artist Basil Hallward, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a cynical, charismatic aristocrat. Lord Henry introduces Dorian to a hedonistic philosophy centered on the worship of youth, beauty, and sensual pleasure abo…
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- 3.823.0058.B.U
White Fang
White Fang is a classic adventure novel by American author Jack London, first serialized in 1906. Often considered a companion piece to London's earlier masterpiece The Call of the Wild, the novel explores the harsh realities of the wild and human civilization from the unique perspective of its protagonist: a fierce, wild wolfdog struggling to survive in the frozen Yukon territory during the Kl…
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by the iconic Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890 (and heavily revised into a book in 1891), it is a cornerstone of Gothic and decadent literature. Fusing the Faustian bargain with acute psychological insight, the novel serves as a dazzling philosophical exploration of art, hedonis…
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) are two of the most celebrated works of literary nonsense and children’s fantasy ever written. Authored by the English mathematician and writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, these timeless masterpieces transport readers into surreal, dreamlike wor…
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- 3.823.0047.B.U
The Mysterious Island
The story is set during the American Civil War, in the spring of 1865. Five men—alongside a faithful dog—escape from a Confederate prison camp in Richmond, Virginia, by hijacking a massive observation balloon during a violent hurricane
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- 3.823.0060.B.U
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables is a collection of brief, allegorical tales traditionally credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. While historians debate whether Aesop was a single historical figure or a composite of storytellers, the fables themselves have become a foundational cornerstone of Western literature, folklore, and moral education.
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- 3.823.0010.B.U
Billy Budd and Other Stories
Billy Budd and Other Stories brings together the final masterpiece and landmark short fiction of Herman Melville (best known for Moby-Dick). Left unfinished at Melville’s death in 1891 and published posthumously, the titular novella Billy Budd, Sailor is widely regarded as one of the most profound psychological and ethical allegories in American literature. The broader collection typically fe…
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- 3.823.0303.B.U
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