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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of…
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Authors in the system
Jane Austen
1775–1817 · Romantic
8 editions
Charlotte Brontë
1816–1855 · Victorian
5 editions
Charles Dickens
1812–1870 · Victorian
43 editions
Herman Melville
1819–1891 · Victorian
4 editions
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797–1851 · Romantic
1 edition
Mark Twain
1835–1910 · Victorian
13 editions
Andy Adams
1859–1935 · Modern
1 edition
Henry Adams
1838–1918 · Victorian
2 editions
Curated sequences
Collections
Essential Philosophy
The arguments that still shape how we think
9 books
The Gothic Library
Monsters, doubles, and the houses that hold them
7 books
Victorian Fiction
The great English novels of the nineteenth century
15 books
American Literature
A young country writing itself into being
18 books
Short Classics
Complete masterpieces you can read in an evening
11 books
Russian Classics
In the great English translations of the early twentieth century
1 books
Live telemetry
Most read
- 01Jane Eyre · Charlotte Brontë
- 02The Fall of Troy · Quintus Smyrnaeus
- 03Wake-Robin · John Burroughs
- 04Letters from England, 1846-1849 · Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
- 05The Cell of Self-Knowledge ·
- 06The Wallet of Kai Lung · Ernest Bramah
- 07The Use and Need of the Life of Carry a. Nation · Carry Amelia Nation
- 08Liber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion · William Hazlitt
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