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Flappers and Philosophers

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Flappers and Philosophers was the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It includes eight sto…

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

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Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on Ap…

Three Soldiers

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John Dos Passos

Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…

A Small Boy and Others

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Henry James

A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James's earliest years and discusses his…

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In Dracula (version 2 dramatic reading)

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Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker did not invent the vampire story, but he popularized it with his classic 1897 novel. In form Dracula is an epistolary novel, to…

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In The Sleeper Awakes

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H. G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, b…

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In The Republic

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Plato

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and pol…

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In Creditors

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August Strindberg (trans. Edwin Bjorkman) and August Strindberg

Creditors is a tragicomedy by August Strindberg that plumbs the depths of the twisted triangular relationship between Tekla, her husband Ado…

20 - Chapter IX - The Conservation of Archaic Traits, Part One

In The Theory of the Leisure Class

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Thorstein Veblen

Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the…