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The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general.This is the one that Dostoevsky had to dictate in record time to avoid a return to prison for debt.

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Contrary to first impressions, Father Brown is not senile, nor easily rattled. In fact, this village priest wanders into challenges that pale in comparison to the things he has heard through the screen of the confessional.

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Employing disturbing elements to explore both the implications of evolutionary theory and to satirize modern society's religious institutions and its pride in its civilization, this title presents a story filled with suspense and adventure.

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In the context of a sincere and scathing account of what is living and dead in modern Christianity, the author presents a view of history and society that overcomes widely recognised theoretical contradictions implicit in his early novel, "War and Peace".

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Written by a palace insider and published at the height of the Roman Empire, this title gives an individual portrait of each emperor. It is an account of the emperors that brings the mundane, tragic, and scandalous activities of Rome's elite - the emperors, their families, friends, enemies, successes, failures, loves, and ambitions - to life.

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Equal parts mystery, suspense story, allegory, and farce, this title features Gabriel Syme, who is the author's ideal of the virtuous Common Man. He must infiltrate and try to thwart an anarchist cell, whose heart is the mysterious and ambiguous Sunday, man whose powers seem almost godlike.

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When Captain Arthur Hastings runs into an old friend, John Cavendish, and is invited to the family estate at Styles, he has a 'premonition of approaching evil'. Cavendish's widowed stepmother has brought the turmoil home by marrying a sinister-looking younger man and when she is killed, he becomes the first and most obvious suspect.

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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts witnessed the Protestant Reformation, the growth of powerful monarchies, the English Civil War, and the colonization of the new world. The author weaves an insightful narrative of these formative centuries.

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Features orphan Little Nell and her beloved grandfather who flee from the moral and material ravages of London and the machinations of the villainous dwarf, Quilp. This title not only illustrates a poverty that looks uncannily familiar, but forges a heroism from the small acts of caring that make modern life meaningful.

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Coming right after the carnage of World War I, this title was neither unduly pessimistic and cynical about the human condition nor Pollyannaish about humanity's future. Instead, it offered an account of the development of the world's civilizations up to the present, showing that an enlightened future depended on an unprejudiced view of the past.

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Coming right after the carnage of World War I, this title was neither unduly pessimistic and cynical about the human condition nor Pollyannaish about humanity's future. Instead, it offered an account of the development of the world's civilizations up to the present, showing that an enlightened future depended on an unprejudiced view of the past.

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A guide by a Nobel prize-winner that considers such topics as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, inductive logic, intuitive knowledge, many other subjects. Suitable for students and general readers, it gives an introduction to philosophy.

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When John Shefford sees a rainbow full of promises, he journeys toward a wild canyon full of secrets. On his way, he must enter a Mormon village, where intruders face certain death.

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Based on the future President's diary from the Spanish-American War, this 1899 memoir abounds in scenes of patriotic valor and pointed observations on McKinley's War Department. It presents a spirited chronicle of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry's bloody battles in Cuba against deeply entrenched Spanish forces.

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Reveals the secrets to getting rich through strategy and inspirational case studies. This title helps you to get on the path to a healthy mind, body, and spirit by achieving the financial success you deserve.

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Childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Prudence Crowley have hit hard times. It's 1920, and the Great War is blessedly over. In the free spirit of the age, the two advertise themselves as 'Young Adventurers', hoping for enjoyable as well as profitable employment.

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Chronicles the disillusionment, heartbreak, and final devastation of an intelligent woman who falls in love with a rake. The author's message remains relevant in a time when the dangerous lover still lurks in romance narratives, and the belief in the illusion of saving the lost soul through love retains its seductive power.

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An inexplicable murder drives the innocent Richard Hannay, on the run from a manhunt that never seems to end, to hide in remote Scottish moorland. Disguise and deception are his only weapons, as he struggles to decode the clues left by the murdered man to prevent the theft of naval secrets by an unfriendly foreign power.

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Composed in 1298, this book describes Marco Polo's travels across the entire continent of Asia. It guides readers through a realm of pygmies, exotic plants and beasts, fine silks, spices, legends, ornate palaces and cannibalism. In a magisterial geographical sweep, it traces Polo's epic journey to the farthest reaches of Asia.

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Presents Charles Darwin's account of his trip - of his biological and geological observations and collection activities, of his speculations about the causes and theories behind scientific phenomena, of his interactions with various native peoples, of his descriptions of the lands he visited, and of his discoveries in the Galapagos archipelago.

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Heralds the decline of modern Western civilization. In this book, nihilism - the uncanny and pervasive feeling that life is devoid of all meaning, purpose, and value - is subjected to a thoroughgoing and multifaceted examination.

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