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The Man in the Moone

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Francis Godwin


A self-serving Spaniard discovers a means of traveling to the moon, describing his sensations in transit in terms remarkably consistent with…

Orlando Furioso

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Ludovico Ariosto


Charlemagne's nephew Orlando (AKA Roland) is driven insane by the infidelity of his beloved Angelica. Angelica's relationship with him and o…

Twilight Sleep

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Edith Wharton


Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for so…

Monsieur Beaucaire

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Booth Tarkington


A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. S…

Weird Tales, Volume 1

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E. T. A. Hoffmann


These stories form the first volume of the renowned Tales of Hoffman. They are fantasies with hints of the supernatural—quintessential Roman…

Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises

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Edmund Spenser


While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud f…

Balder Dead (version 2)

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Matthew Arnold


The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. L…

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


This final volume of detective stories was Doyle’s effort to put his most famous creation behind him at long last. It includes a variety of …

The Moon Maid

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


Sabotage accidentally takes Earth's first manned interplanetary expedition to the Moon, where a sublunar adventure ensues, involving two int…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 13 (Supplem…

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James Mcglothlin


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators, and scholars. They are an amalgam of myth…

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV

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François Rabelais


This fourth in the five novels about the giants Pantagruel and his father Gargantua is the last novel indusputably attributed to Franç…

The Gods of Mars (version 2)

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant sav…

The Master Mind of Mars (Version 3)

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


The protagonist is a soldier from the Great War whose tale John Carter has brought to Earth. Having saved the life of an ancient Martian who…

Back to Methuselah

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George Bernard Shaw


In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…

The Defense of Poesy

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Sir Philip Sidney


Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …

Four Hymns

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Edmund Spenser


Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…

The Master of Ballantrae

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Robert Louis Stevenson


Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advis…

Venus and Adonis (Version 2)

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William Shakespeare


Both Ovid and Spenser also treat this ancient myth, but Spenser alters the ending, converting the tale into an archetype of fulfilled love, …

Selected Poems

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George Herbert


These poems, from Herbert’s book The Temple, show the evolution of a soul’s relationship with God. Sudden reversals of mood are common, for …

Paradise Lost (version 2)

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John Milton


As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to r…

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