 | Pride and Prejudice (Norton Critical Editions) by Jane Austen
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 | Jane Eyre (Norton Critical Editions) by Charlotte Brontë
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 | Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) by Emily Brontë
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 | Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions) by Joseph Conrad
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 | The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad
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 | Hard Times: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Sources, and Contemporary Reactions, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) by Charles Dickens
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 | William Faulkner : Novels 1930-1935 : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (Library of America) by William Faulkner
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 | The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene
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 | The House of the Seven Gables (Norton Critical Edition) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
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 | The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories (Schocken Kafka Library) by Franz Kafka
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 | Moby-Dick, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by Herman Melville
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 | Henry David Thoreau : A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden; Or, Life in the Woods / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod (Library of America) by Henry David Thoreau
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 | The Mrs. Dalloway Reader by Virginia Woolf
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 | Faust: A Tragedy (Norton Critical Editions) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 | The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition) by Homer
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 | Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions) by John Milton
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 | Republic by Plato
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 | The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition
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 | The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (Norton Anthology of English Literature)
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 | The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century (Norton Anthology of English Literature)
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 | The Norton Anthology of Poetry
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 | Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Concise Dictionary)
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 | The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr.
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 | The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha, Third Edition (Hardcover 9700A)
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