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1) Resurrection
5) Frankenstein
7) The Gambler
10) Dead Souls
12) Moby Dick
13) Mrs. Dalloway
14) The sea-wolf
After a ferry accident on San Francisco Bay, literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is swept out to sea only to be rescued by the seal-hunting schooner Ghost. Wolf Larsen, the captain of the Ghost, is brutal and cynical but also highly intelligent, and he has no intention of returning Van Weyden to shore. Van Weyden is forced to serve on the Ghost, leaving behind his comfortable world ashore and entering into a psychological battle
...What Is Love?
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral." - Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
Upon hearing a woman arguing that marriage
...16) The Watsons
An Unfinished Novel by Jane Austen
If my opinions are wrong, I must correct them—if they are above my station, I must endeavour to conceal them." ― Jane Austen, The Watsons
Jane Austen wrote five chapters of The Watsons before abandoning it after her father's death in 1805. Mr. Watson is a widowed clergy man with four daughters. In this snippet of what could have been an impressive novel, Austen lays out the family's
...17) Winesburg, Ohio
18) The moonstone
20) Laddie
A classic novel with a time-tested model for how to raise a happy, well-educated family "Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to anyone in all this world?" ― Gene Stratton-Porter, Laddie: A True Blue Story
Laddie: A True Blue Story by Gene Stratton-Porter is a charming fictionalization of the author's own childhood. Featuring a loving family on a small farm, this delightful novel should
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