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Anticipations forecasts the evolution of 20th century society and the consequences of technology.

Looking Backward follows young Julian West after he wakes up in the future to a society founded on humanist and scientific principles.

A Girl of the Limberlost follows teenage Elnora as she grows from a struggling high schooler to a self-confident young woman.

Considered to be W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece and adapted into multiple films, Of Human Bondage follows the journey of Philip Carey as he grows from a helpless, lonely child to a young, adventuring hedonist, in the end maturing into a confident family-man. Born with a club foot, orphaned nine-year old Philip is sent to live with his aunt and distant uncle. After a year of fruitless efforts at Oxford, Philip tries his hand in Germany and L...

A man journeys from the faraway island of Altruria to the United States seeking the prized American values of democracy and liberty. He discovers that these are only window-dressing for a society run by greed, money, and mutual distrust.

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Are we witnessing a psychotic break? Or, has someone with physical features strikingly similar to his own spotted an opportunity, and seized it? In "The Double" we wonder!

In a 1922 edition of a literary magazine edited by H. L. Mencken is this mountain-sized 'gem' of a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The 1880 Ben-Hur was beloved for its faithful representation of the person of Jesus.

The Swiss Family Robinson chronicles the adventures and heroics of a marooned Pastor and his family on a deserted, tropical island.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground is one of the first, and finest, 'existential' pieces of literature. Published around 1864, the book is a commentary on the human condition as it really is contrasted against various philosophical systems then (and now) under discussion, such as collectivism and nihilism. The book has been reprinted countless times. What makes this edition unique is that it endeavors to provide primary sources so...

From the prolific British author, Edgar Wallace, comes The Dark Eyes of London, a crime novel that has inspired two international films. During his lifetime, Wallace wrote over 900 short stories, over 170 novels, and 18 stage plays. While many of his thrilling tales have left a mark on cinematography, Wallace is most well known for writing "King Kong, " which became hugely popular and is now considered a classic film. Wallace's work has reache...

The story of the ape man, Tarzan, is fearless, fantastical, and a classic read. American author Edgar Rice Burroughs found his fame in writing of Tarzan's adventures of being raised by apes until his eventual encounters with civilized humans. Along with Tarzan, Burroughs wrote science fiction and fantasy stories that influenced the work of literary geniuses like Rudyard Kipling and James Edwin Gunn. Scholars and readers alike note the critical...

From popular science fiction author H. G. Wells, "The Invisible Man" is a tale of an optics scientist who is able to create an invisibility serum and his descent into madness.

H. G. Wells' "When the Sleeper Wakes" tells the story of Graham, an insomniac who takes a sleeping drug and doesn't wake for another two hundred years, only to find that the world has changed into a horrific nightmare.

The First Men in the Moon" by influential science fiction author H. G. Wells is the story of two unlikely friends, a businessman named Bedford and a scientist called Cavor, who set out to explore the Moon.

With amusing stories that contain a college for dogs, boxing lessons, and many other laughable plans, "Ukridge" by P.G. Wodehouse is sure to be a book to remember.

Tarzan and the Ant Men" is the tenth in the series of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan" novels.