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The story of my life

An autobiography of Helen Keller, written while she was a young woman, in which she tells of her early life, her relationship with her teacher Anne Sullivan, and her struggles to triumph over blindness and deafness.

Five plays

On liberty

and, Utilitarianism
2008
Presents two essays by John Stuart Mill that reflect his political beliefs and his ideas for balancing the rights of the individual with the power of the state.

Bleak house

Presents Dickens's 1853 novel which tells the story of several generations of the Jarndyce family who wait in vain to inherit money that is tied up in a legal dispute in England's notoriously slow moving Court of Chancery.
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The war of the worlds

After Martians land on Earth just outside of London in the late nineteenth century, an Englishman tries to find his wife while the British military and human technology fail in their efforts to stop the Martians, which have begun to kill and feed off of humans.
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Great expectations

An unknown person has provided money for the education of Pip, a poor English boy, in nineteenth-century England.
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To build a fire and other stories

Includes twenty-five stories including the Klondike stories, and other stories spanning American author Jack London's career.

Notes from underground

The passionate confessions of a suffering man who identifies himself as sick and spiteful.

The complete short stories of Mark Twain

Sixty short stories, arranged chronologically, beginning with "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and covering the entire span of Twain's writing life, from 1865 to 1916.

A tale of two cities

Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

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