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Fiction

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  Author: Mark Twain
  Note: A boy and a runaway slave raft down the Mississippi in Twain's landmark novel of freedom, conscience, and the pre–Civil War South.

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• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  Author: Lewis Carroll
  Note: Carroll's whimsical tale of a girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole into a nonsensical world of riddles, talking creatures, and shifting logic.

  1.2 MB
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• Crime and Punishment

  Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  Note: Dostoyevsky's psychological drama of a young man who commits murder and is consumed by guilt and conscience.

  9 MB
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• Frankenstein

  Author: Mary Shelley
  Note: Shelley's gothic tale of a scientist who creates life and reaps tragedy — a founding work of science fiction.

  3.4 MB
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• Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World

  Author: Jonathan Swift
  Note: Swift's satirical voyages to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and beyond, skewering politics, science, and human nature.

  2.2 MB
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• Life on the Mississippi

  Author: Mark Twain
  Note: Twain's memoir of his years as a steamboat pilot, blending river lore with reflections on a fast-changing America.

  6.3 MB
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• Moby-Dick

  Author: Herman Melville
  Note: Melville's epic of Captain Ahab's obsessive hunt for the white whale, and a sweeping meditation on nature and fate.

  9.3 MB
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• Notes from the Underground

  Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  Note: Dostoyevsky's biting monologue of an isolated, spiteful narrator — a seminal work of existential fiction.

  1.9 MB
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• Pride and Prejudice

  Author: Jane Austen
  Note: Austen's sparkling comedy of manners, wit, and marriage in Regency England, following Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy.

  5.5 MB
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• Roughing It

  Author: Mark Twain
  Note: Twain's humorous account of his travels and misadventures across the American West and Hawaii.

  7.2 MB
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• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
  Note: Twelve classic detective stories in which Holmes and Dr. Watson unravel crimes through sharp deduction.

  4.6 MB
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• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

  Author: Mark Twain
  Note: Twain's beloved tale of boyhood mischief, adventure, and small-town life along the Mississippi.

  3.1 MB
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• The Brothers Karamazov

  Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  Note: Dostoyevsky's final novel — a sweeping drama of faith, doubt, and patricide among three brothers and their father.

  15.6 MB
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• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

  Author: William Shakespeare
  Note: The full canon of Shakespeare's plays and poems, a cornerstone of English literature.

  45.3 MB
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• The Great Gatsby

  Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
  Note: Fitzgerald's Jazz Age tragedy of wealth, love, and the American Dream, narrated by Nick Carraway.

  2.1 MB
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• The Idiot

  Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  Note: Dostoyevsky's novel of the guileless Prince Myshkin, whose goodness collides with a corrupt society.

  10.7 MB
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• The Iliad

  Author: Homer
  Note: Homer's epic of the Trojan War — the wrath of Achilles, gods and heroes in battle — the companion to The Odyssey.

  8.5 MB
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• The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

  Author: Homer
  Note: Homer's epic of Odysseus' long, perilous journey home from the Trojan War, rendered here in English prose.

  5.7 MB
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Non-Fiction

• Apology

  Author: Plato
  Note: Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his Athenian trial — a foundational text on philosophy, virtue, and the examined life.

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• Meditations

  Author: Marcus Aurelius
  Note: The private Stoic reflections of a Roman emperor on discipline, duty, and equanimity — one of the most-quoted works of practical philosophy.

  3 MB
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• Tao Te Ching

  Author: Lao Tzu
  Note: Lao Tzu's foundational Taoist text on harmony, simplicity, and the way — terse verses that have shaped Eastern thought for millennia.

  488.5 KB
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• The Art of War

  Author: Sun Tzu
  Note: Sun Tzu's ancient Chinese treatise on military strategy, still widely studied for its lessons on conflict and leadership.

  2.5 MB
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• The King James Version of the Bible

  Author: Unknown
  Note: The 1611 English translation of the Christian scriptures — a monumental influence on the English language and literature.

  36.3 MB
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• The Prince

  Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
  Note: Machiavelli's pragmatic treatise on political power and statecraft, notorious for its unsentimental advice to rulers.

  2.1 MB
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• The Republic

  Author: Plato
  Note: Plato's dialogue on justice, the ideal state, and the allegory of the cave — a cornerstone of Western political philosophy.

  9.1 MB
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