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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Brothers Karamazov
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Leaves of Grass and Other Writings
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As I Lay Dying (Norton Critical Editions)
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The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
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The Portrait of a Lady
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Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions)
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
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Anna Karenina: The Maude Translation; Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism
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The Turn of the Screw
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The Conjure Stories: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales
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Sense and Sensibility
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The House of Mirth (Norton Critical Editions)
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The Odyssey
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Robinson Crusoe
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The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue
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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
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Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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John Donne's Poetry
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North and South
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The Prince
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Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions)
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Oliver Twist (Norton Critical Editions)
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Howards End (Norton Critical Editions)
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Don Quijote
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Middlemarch
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Leviathan (Norton Critical Editions)
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Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama
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Faust
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The Secret Garden: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
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The Red Badge of Courage
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The Time Machine: An Invention
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Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Norton Critical Editions)
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Melville's Short Novels (Norton Critical Editions)
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Emerson's Prose and Poetry
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War and Peace
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Beowulf. A Prose Translation
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George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)
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A Clockwork Orange: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
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Great Expectations
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The Classic Fairy Tales
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Utopia
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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George Bernard Shaw's Plays
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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The Age of Innocence
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The Tempest
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Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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An Essay on the Principle of Population
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Dead Souls (Norton Critical Editions)
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Le Morte D'arthur
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How the Other Half Lives: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
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Joseph Andrews with Shamela and Related Writings: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism
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Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On Social Contract: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
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On Politics and Ethics
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David Copperfield
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Robert Browning's Poetry
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Darwin
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Candide
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The Awakening
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Anne of Green Gables: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
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The Return of the Native
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