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Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne.

After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it opens in mid-conversation upon a subject never explained; meanders after a fashion through a hundred pages, then fizzles out in mid-sentence - so, a plotless novel lacking a b...

Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar Nelson.

These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteenth-century.

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Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway.

Men Without Women (1927) is the second collection of short stories written by American author Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961). The volume consists of 14 stories, 10 of which had been previously published in magazines. It was published in October 1927, with a first print-run of approximately 7,600 copies at $2. The...

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (alt).

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Highwayman by H. C. Bailey.

A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short stories. The actual book is difficult to locate and appears to have been forgotten.

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