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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh n…

The Moneychangers

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Upton Sinclair

A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague w…

The Fruit of the Tree

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Edith Wharton

When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due t…

Mistakes of Moses

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Robert G. Ingersoll

Robert G. Ingersoll was an extremely popular humanist orator in the late nineteenth century, and he wrote Mistakes of Moses after many bootl…

Bunner Sisters

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Edith Wharton

“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverish…

Royal Highness

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Thomas Mann

Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…

Eminent Victorians

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Giles Lytton Strachey

On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

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Henry Morgenthau

Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…

Martyred Armenia

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Fa'Iz El-Ghusein

This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His ac…

Our Old Home

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …

Contending Forces

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, despite an impressive record of productivity and creativity as a novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, edit…

Arthur Mervyn

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Charles Brockden Brown

Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the ill…

Java Head

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Joseph Hergesheimer

Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was…

Merton of the Movies

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Harry Leon Wilson

Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to H…

Atlantis

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Gerhart Hauptmann

Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career h…

Effi Briest (abridged)

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Theodor Fontane

Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tr…

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

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Walt Whitman

This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…

Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes

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William Alexander Gerhardi

From the preface written by Edith Wharton:Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of …

Come Out of the Kitchen!

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Alice Duer Miller

A novel about a man who rents a house for the season and keeps having problems with the servants, especially the attractive cook. - Summary …

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1

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Robert Henry Newell

These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…

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