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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
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Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred …
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Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel …
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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, James Gibson
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with …
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Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
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Point Counter Point is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1928. It is Huxley's longest novel, and was …
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Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf became an instant bestseller on its release in 1904. Ambrose Bierce wrote "The great …
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Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
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The novel focuses on the life of socialite Anthony Beavis, but it does so by employing a non-chronological structure. It …
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Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then …
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Smiley's People by John le Carré
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After George Smiley has uncovered the traitor, or "mole", inside the Circus, Britain's top secret service, he is asked to …
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Robert Frost wrote of Thoreau, "In one book... he gave America the best of all we had." Henry David Thoreau …
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