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A modest proposal

An essay by eighteenth-century satirist Jonathan Swift in which he suggests eating the children of the poor as a solution to poverty in Ireland.

Leaves of grass

Contains nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman's classic collection of more than three hundred poems, "Leaves of Grass.".

Keats poems

A collection of poetic works by nineteenth-century English poet John Keats.

Incidents in the life of a slave girl

Presents the slave narrative of Harriet A. Jacobs, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, in which she describes the trials of her life as a Southern slave, and discusses her determination to win freedom for herself and her children.

Fairy tales

A collection of traditional fairy tales retold by the Brothers Grimm.

A doll's house

Nora, resenting her life as a pampered wife, forges a signature in order to obtain money for her ailing husband, and the results of this act lead her to personal growth and to her resentment of being treated like a doll in her own home.

Common sense

A political treatise advocating the establishment of democracy and the overthrow of monarchy.

Canterbury tales and other poems

A collection of English translations of the poems of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Beowulf

A Norse hero saves Denmark's royal house from monsters, returns home to become his own people's greatest king, and then faces a murderous dragon to protect them.

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