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Arrowsmith
by Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair's most praised novel and the one that won him the Pulitzer Prize (which he refused) Arrowsmith tells the story of a doctor who becomes an isolated seeker of scientific truth after he is forced to give up his trade for reasons ranging from public ignorance to the publicity-minde.... (Read more)
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Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Co.... (Read more)
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Boyhood Days
by Rabindranath Tagore
I was then about seven or eight. I had no useful role to play in this world; and that old palki, too, had been dismissed from all forms of useful employment . . .’
Hidden inside an ancient palanquin on a hot, lonely afternoon, a young boy sets off on an imaginary adventure. He encount.... (Read more)
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Chance
by Joseph Conrad
Flora de Barral is left to fend for herself at age fifteen, after her father is imprisoned. Conrad uses her consequent struggles to find a place in the world and deal with the moral hypocrisy that surrounds her as a basis to explore her psychological transformation from naive and tragic yo.... (Read more)
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Clarissa
by Samuel Richardson
A rakish city gentleman determines to seduce the youngest daughter of the Harlowe household in this 18th-century romance.
Written entirely in letters, this novel conveys the nuances and tensions only present in personal epistolary form. The virtuous but self-deceiving Clarissa and the c.... (Read more)
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Crime And Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating for the reader as it is for the .... (Read more)
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray — he tilts at windmills, .... (Read more)
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Emma
by Jane Austen
Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.
Emma is the typical rich and clever girl who.... (Read more)
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Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of the early 20th century..... (Read more)
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Gaban
by Munshi Premchand
Gaban, one of the most celebrated novels of Munshi Premchand, was first published in 1931. It tells the story of Ramanath, a charming but morally weak young man, who in order to fulfill his beautiful wife, Jalpa's excessive craving for jewellery involves himself in complex economic and pe.... (Read more)
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