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Thoreau wrote his famous essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, as a protest against an unjust but popular war and the immoral but popular institution of slave-owning.

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Far out at the edge of the Universe two scientists play a game of wits--Earth to the winner.

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... a tornado and deposited in a field in the country of the Munchkins. The falling house kills the Wicked Witch ...

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Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona.

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Written during a time of tragedy, this novel of sea life fails in either its story or doctrinaire intentions.

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Far under the sea-floor Solino's submarine carries two American soldiers of fortune to startling adventure among the Vampire Heads of Apex.

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A penniless British adventurer seeks untold wealth in the wilds of the "Dark Continent" after losing his family lands and estates ...

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The story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who ... . He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, under his wing.

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A swarm of huge, fiery ants, brood of a mystery comet, burst from their shells to threaten the unsuspecting world.

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One of Saki's best-known works. A collection of satirical short stories featuring Clovis.

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This collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men.

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"The Curse of Yig" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop in which Yig, "The Father of Serpents", is first introduced.

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... riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility is the center of this tale. Silas earns a fortune in the paint ... his daughter's marriage to the scion of the aristocratic Corey family.

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... winds up discovering that he is the long-lost Emperor of the Silver Island. Along the way, he meets such ... A-B-Sea Serpent, the lumpy mud men, Sir Hokus of Pokes, and others.

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An exciting tale of the attempts of the unscrupulous cattlemen to drive the homesteader from their holdings ...

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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.

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A girl from the dregs of society, loves a young Cornell University student, and it works startling changes in her life and the lives of those about her.

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... himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her husband. Will her vices be passed on to ...

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... a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician Fathers of Confederation. A noted Reform politician, he was ... also the founder and editor of the Toronto Globe, which is today ( ...

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... overhearing a plot to kidnap the niece of a prominent rancher as she arrives from ... Milt Dale springs into action. He comes out of his splendid isolation to protect Helen and her kid ...

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... . Adventure met him at every turn--there is a girl of course--men fight their best fights for a woman--it ...

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... , farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists, rascals, and politicians -- all of them blended together into a single state. The Rangers -- lawmen ...

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First published in 1890, The Sign of Four is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ... More complex than the first Holmes novel, The Sign of Four also introduces the detective's drug habit and ...

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Into the Trap-Door City of great spiders goes Penrun after the hidden plunder of the space-pirate Halkon.

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... Andreyich Grinyov is the only surviving child of a retired army officer. When Pyotr ... rescued by a mysterious man. As a token of his gratitude, Pyotr gives the guide his hareskin ...

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