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  1. Short Fiction

    Anton Chekhov

  2. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Robert Louis Stevenson

  3. The Jungle Book

    Rudyard Kipling

  4. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe

  5. Short Fiction

    Nikolai Gogol

  6. Short Fiction

    Gustave Flaubert

  7. Short Fiction

    Ivan Bunin

  8. Erewhon

    Samuel Butler

  9. Short Fiction

    Edgar Allan Poe

  10. Children’s Stories

    Oscar Wilde

  11. The School for Scandal

    Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  12. The American Crisis

    Thomas Paine

  13. Short Fiction

    Leo Tolstoy

  14. Essays

    Henry David Thoreau

  15. Short Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway

  16. The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

    John Stuart Mill

  17. Short Works

    Epictetus

  18. The Golden Ass

    Apuleius

  19. Short Fiction

    Guy de Maupassant

  20. Short Plays

    J. M. Synge

  21. Essays

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  22. Culture and Anarchy

    Matthew Arnold

  23. Short Fiction

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  24. The Pickwick Papers

    Charles Dickens

  25. The Man of Destiny

    George Bernard Shaw

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