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Stranded deep in Persia, after their leader Cyrus was killed, Xenophon played an instrumental role in encouraging his army of 10,000 to march north across deserts and mountain passes, towards the Black Sea and its Greek shoreline cities.
As a Man Thinketh is a self-help book which deals with the power of thought, and the use of thought to create happiness. The book shows how each person holds the key to every condition, good or bad, that enters into their life.
Plato was one of the devoted young followers of Socrates. Plato never speaks in his own voice in his dialogues, and speaks as Socrates. The five dialogues includes the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, and Phaedo.
Books 31-45 discuss the Macedonian and other eastern wars from 201 to 167 BC. Livy details the Battle of Cynoscephalae, the repeal of Lex Oppia, the victory of Cato in Hispania, the War against Nabis, and much more.
Lucy Honeychurch and her cousin Charlotte arrive in Florence, Italy. What follows is a story of murder, romance, various marriage proposals, betrayal, and an opportunity for Lucy to find lifelong love.
Kim is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier in India. When Kim is rescued by the British, he is trained as a secret agent. Kim is set with a choice to either follow a life of espionage, or the spiritual way of Tibetan Buddhism.
The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards.
Hamlet dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called on to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius. Macbeth tells the story of a Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that he will become King of Scotland.
The book is a collection of letters between Abelard and Heloise. Abelard was a Medieval French scholastic philosopher while Heloise was his young student, famous as the most well-educated and intelligent woman in Paris at the time.
Set in mid-19th-century France, the novel tells the tragic love story between fictional characters Marguerite Gautier, a demimondaine or courtesan suffering from consumption, and Armand Duval, a young bourgeois.
The story focuses on the protagonist Elliot's psychological growth from youth to adulthood as his relationship with his friends, Agnes Pembroke and her elder brother, Herbert, develops.
Moll Flanders is born in Newgate Prison and raised by a kindly foster mother. Eventually she becomes a servant in a house where she first realises the effect she has on men.
Set in mid-19th-century Paris, Cousin Bette tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family.
A History of New York is a satire on self-important local history and contemporary politics. Irving created a fictional persona, Diedrich Knickerbocker, as the author of the book.
Idylls of the King is a collection of twelve narrative poems that recount Arthur's attempt and failure to lift up mankind and create a perfect kingdom, from his coming to power to his death at the hands of the traitor Mordred.
Catiline's War details the attempt by Lucius Sergius Catilina to overthrow the Roman Republic in 63 BC. The Jugurthine War discusses the war against Jugurtha in Numidia from 112 to 106 BC.
John Jasper, a choirmaster lusts after his pupil, Rosa Bud, who is engaged to his nephew, Edwin Drood. Rosa also caught the eye of the hot-tempered Neville who becomes Edwin's rival. When Edwin disappears, John accuses Neville of killing him.
A young American named Julian West falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep in the late 19th century and wakes up 113 years later in the year 2000.
The Mabinogion are the earliest prose stories of the literature of Britain. The collection covers eleven prose stories of widely different types, offering drama, philosophy, romance, tragedy, fantasy and humour.
The collection of Pliny's letters is divided into ten books. His career as a young man is described in the earlier letters, which include tributes to notable figures.
Lady Audley's Secret plays on Victorian anxieties about the domestic sphere. Elements of the novel mirror themes of the real-life Constance Kent case of June 1860 which gripped the nation for years.
Horace was the leading Roman lyric poet who was often regarded as the world's first autobiographer. His writings tell far more about himself, his character, his development, and his way of life than any other great poet of antiquity.
In this book, Chesterton tries to illustrate the spiritual journey of humanity, or at least of Western civilization.
Taking place during the American Civil War, this novel is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle.
A rough and uneducated former sailor named Martin Eden falls in love with the young, bourgeois Ruth Morse. He goes through an intense period of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.
The book includes three interrelated treatises that trace episodes in the evolution of moral concepts with a view to confronting moral prejudices, specifically those of Christianity and Judaism.
After the death of his parents, 17-year-old David Balfour is confronted by his uncle Ebenezer, who is jealous of his nephew's inheritance. Ebenezer leads David to a nearby ship, where he is struck, bound, and kidnapped.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles tells the story of a country girl descended from a noble line who is seduced and left pregnant. After her baby dies, she meets a man who abandons her on their wedding night when she confesses her past.
Edward Prendick finds himself shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean, but is soon rescued by a passing boat. He is taken to the island home of Doctor Moreau, who creates human-like hybrids from animals via vivisection.
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