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A Fighting Man of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Modern · Intermediate
The seventh in the Barsoom series, it follows Tan Hadron, a lowly officer in love with a haughty noblewoman who scorns him for his poor rank.
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A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
Jules Verne
Modern · Intermediate
Professor Otto Lidenbrock, an eccentric German scientist, discovers a cryptic message suggesting a path to Earth's center through an Icelandic volcano.
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A Modern Mephistopheles, and a Whisper in the Dark
Louisa May Alcott
Modern · Intermediate
The book delves into the struggles of its main characters, Felix Canaris, a young man grappling with despair and hopelessness, and Jasper Helwyze, a mysterious benefactor.
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A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Modern · Advanced
Confederate veteran John Carter is mysteriously transported to Mars, a dying desert planet called Barsoom.
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A Tangled Tale
Lewis Carroll
Modern · Intermediate
Ten short comic stories, called "knots", each with mathematical puzzles hidden in it for the reader to solve.
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A Theological-Political Treatise [Part III]
Baruch Spinoza
Early modern · Advanced
The third part of Spinoza's treatise on religion and the state, continuing his examination of scripture, faith and philosophy.
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Abandoned
Jules Verne
Modern · Intermediate
Five Union prisoners escape the American Civil War in a stolen balloon, only to crash on an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific.
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All Around the Moon
Jules Verne
Modern · Intermediate
It's a sequel to "From the Earth to the Moon" and follows the adventures of three daring characters—President Barbican, Captain M'Nicholl, and Michel Ardan—as they embark on a journey to the Moon in a specially designed projectile.
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Apology
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
Socrates' speech in his own defence at his trial in Athens in 399 BC, on charges of impiety and of corrupting the young.
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At the Earth's Core
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Modern · Intermediate
When an experimental drilling machine cannot be stopped, inventor David Innes and his companion burrow five hundred miles beneath Earth's surface, emerging into Pellucidar—a hollow world within our planet.
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
Herman Melville
Modern · Intermediate
A Wall Street lawyer hires a new copying clerk named Bartleby, who initially works diligently but soon begins refusing all tasks with the phrase "I would prefer not to.
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Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern · Advanced
Nietzsche's critique of the philosophers and moralities of his time, written in nine parts of numbered sections and aphorisms.
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Charmides
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Socrates, back in Athens from the army, asks the young Charmides and his guardian Critias what temperance is.
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Christian Science
Mark Twain
Modern · Intermediate
The book gathers Twain's critical writings about Christian Science and its founder, Mary Baker Eddy.
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Condensation of Determinants
Lewis Carroll
Modern · Advanced
A short mathematical paper, written under the author's own name Charles L. Dodgson, setting out a method for computing the value of a determinant.
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Cratylus
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
Hermogenes and Cratylus ask Socrates to settle their dispute: are the names of things correct by nature or only by convention?
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Curiosa Mathematica, Part 1
Lewis Carroll
Modern · Advanced
A mathematical work in which the author proposes a new way of proving Euclid's theory of parallel lines.
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Curiosa Mathematica, Part II
Lewis Carroll
Modern · Advanced
Seventy-two mathematical problems that the author worked out in his head while lying awake at night, with their answers and solutions.
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Danger! and Other Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle
Modern · Introductory
The title story, written before World War I, depicts a fictional nation using submarine warfare to blockade Britain, forcing the country into starvation and surrender.
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Ethics
Baruch Spinoza
Early modern · Advanced
Spinoza's major work, set out in geometrical order with definitions, axioms and propositions: on God, the mind, the emotions and human freedom.
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Ethics — Part 1
Baruch Spinoza
Early modern · Advanced
The first part of Spinoza's Ethics, "Concerning God": definitions, axioms and propositions on substance and on God as the one substance.
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Ethics — Part 2
Baruch Spinoza
Early modern · Advanced
The second part of Spinoza's Ethics, on the nature and origin of the mind and its relation to the body.
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Euthydemus
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Socrates tells Crito about his encounter with two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who claim to refute anything anyone says.
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Euthyphro
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
On his way to answer the charge of impiety, Socrates meets Euthyphro, who is prosecuting his own father, and asks him what piety is.
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Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
Modern · Advanced
It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox experiment.
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Hard Times
Charles Dickens
Modern · Intermediate
Set in the fictional industrial town of Coketown, it satirizes the harsh social and economic conditions of Victorian England.
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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern · Advanced
The opening divisions of Nietzsche's book of aphorisms "for free spirits": on first and last things, the history of the moral feelings, and the religious life.
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Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Part 1
Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern · Advanced
The first part of Nietzsche's book of aphorisms "for free spirits", examining morality, religion, art and society without metaphysical assumptions.
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In the Days of the Comet
H. G. Wells
Modern · Intermediate
When a mysterious green comet enters Earth's atmosphere, it transforms humanity's consciousness, replacing anger and greed with clarity and compassion.
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Ion
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
Socrates asks Ion, a prize-winning reciter of Homer, whether his skill comes from knowledge or from inspiration.
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Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education
H. G. Wells
Modern · Intermediate
Following two orphaned children through late-Victorian and Edwardian England, the story chronicles their turbulent upbringing as competing guardians battle over their education.
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Kant's Critique of Judgement
Immanuel Kant
Early modern · Advanced
Kant's third Critique, on the power of judgement: what we claim when we call something beautiful or sublime, and how we judge nature as purposive.
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Laches
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
Two fathers ask the generals Laches and Nicias how to educate their sons, and Socrates turns the conversation to the question of what courage is.
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Lost on Venus
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Modern · Introductory
The story follows Carson Napier, a man who, in his quest to reach Mars, accidentally lands on the dangerous planet Venus, also known as Amtor.
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Mankind in the Making
H. G. Wells
Modern · Advanced
Wells examines how children develop into citizens of the modern state, proposing a controversial doctrine called "New Republicanism" that judges all things by their effect on human evolution.
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Meno
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
Meno asks Socrates whether virtue can be taught, and Socrates replies that they must first find out what virtue is.
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Moby Dick; or, the Whale
Herman Melville
Modern · Intermediate
Sailor Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab, who commands the whaling ship Pequod in pursuit of Moby Dick, a giant white sperm whale that destroyed his leg.
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Mugby Junction
Charles Dickens
Modern · Intermediate
A retired gentleman explores railway lines branching from Mugby Junction, encountering mysterious tales along the way.
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On the Improvement of the Understanding
Baruch Spinoza
Early modern · Intermediate
Spinoza's unfinished early treatise on method: how the mind can be freed from error and guided towards true knowledge.
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On the Significance of Science and Art
Leo Tolstoy
Modern · Advanced
This work scrutinizes the prevailing philosophies of science and art, questioning their true roles in society and their impacts on humanity.
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Out of Time's Abyss
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Modern · Intermediate
The final installment of the Caspak trilogy follows Bradley after his mysterious disappearance from Fort Dinosaur.
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Parmenides
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
The young Socrates presents his theory of forms to the philosophers Parmenides and Zeno, and Parmenides raises objections to it.
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Pellucidar
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Modern · Intermediate
The story revolves around David Innes, who embarks on a journey to the inner world of Pellucidar, a strange realm that exists at the core of the Earth, where time and societal norms differ greatly from the outer world.
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Persuasion
Jane Austen
Modern · Advanced
Eight years after being persuaded to break off her engagement to naval officer Frederick Wentworth, twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot encounters him again when his sister rents her family's estate.
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Phaedrus
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Walking outside the walls of Athens, Socrates and Phaedrus exchange speeches about love and then discuss what makes speaking and writing good.
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Philebus
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
Socrates and Protarchus debate whether pleasure or wisdom has the better claim to be the good for human beings.
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Pierre; or the Ambiguities
Herman Melville
Modern · Advanced
The book explores themes of love, identity, and the complexities of relationships through the life of Pierre Glendinning, a young man navigating his feelings for Lucy Tartan, amidst societal expectations and personal desires.
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Pirates of Venus
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Modern · Intermediate
The story follows hero Carson Napier on the planet Venus, known to its inhabitants as "Amtor.
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