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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

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An Enemy of the people is an 1882 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen wrote it in response to the public outcry against his play Ghosts, which at that time was considered scandalous. Ghosts had challenged the hypocrisy of Victorian morality and was deemed indecent for its veiled references to syphilis. Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828 – 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as «the father of realism» and is one of the...

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AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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Lewis Carroll

Agnes Grey

Agnes Grey

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Agnes Grey

Agnes Grey

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African-American Poetry

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African-American Poetry

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In the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20th century, black poets celebrated race consciousness in propagandistic and protest poetry, while World War I helped engender the outpouring of African-American creativity known as the «Harlem...

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Aeneid

Virgil

Aeneid

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Considered the greatest Roman poet, Vergil spent over a decade working on this monumental epic poem, which has been a source of literary inspiration and poetic grandeur for more than 2,000 years. Its twelve books tell the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found a new city in the west. This city, Lavinium, was the parent city of Rome.Drawn by divine destiny after the fall of Troy, Aeneas sailed westward toward the land of the Tiber. After many adventures,...

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Virgil

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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A Week On The Concord And Merrimack...

A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers

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A Week On The Concord And Merrimack...

A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woma...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woma...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four

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The world's most famous detective uses his celebrated skills of deduction in A Study in Scarlet, the tale that introduces Dr. John Watson. Recently discharged from the military, Watson takes a room with an amazing young man — the arrogant crime expert, Sherlock Holmes. Their investigation of a bizarre crime proves to be an auspicious beginning for one of the most illustrious crime-solving partnerships of all time.The second tale, The Sign of Four, is an incredible story of greed...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Shropshire Lad

Alfred Edward Housman

A Shropshire Lad

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A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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Alfred Edward Housman

A Shropshire Lad

A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad

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A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other...

Kate Chopin

A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Short Stories

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Known for her vivid portrayals of Creole life in Louisiana, Kate Chopin (1851–1904) wrote, during her brief literary career, poignant and perceptive stories about the emotional lives of women. Bypassing many of the conventions of 19th-century realism, she won praise for her realistic portraits of the inhabitants of bayou and urban areas.This collection of nine stories contains one of her most famous works, «Désirée's Baby» — a haunting and ironic tale...

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A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

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From the master of satire, Jonathan Swift, comes a collection of his classic satirical works. «A Modest Proposal and Other Satires» includes the following works: A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against the Abolishment of Christianity, A Modest Proposal, A True and Faithful Narrative, A Meditation Upon a Broomstick, Predictions for the Year 1708, and The Accomplishment of the First Year of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions.

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A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

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A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

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Imagine a plague so horrific, only forty percent of the population lived to tell the tale. Written as a first-person account of the world’s most dangerous pandemic, the mysterious narrator bears witness to a society that has seemingly given up hope during terrifying times. . From mounting death tolls, to horrific bodily ailments, contracting the Black Plague was considered a fate worse than death. Combining his own experiences within each of the two stories, the enigmatic narrator, known only...

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A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

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