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  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Books featured in my Sparknotes Literature 101 compilation ISBN 1-4114-0026-7. Since they are available on feedbooks for kindle and other devices, I thought they'd make good book club selections.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
  <book id="3076">
    <dc:title>The Aeneid of Virgil (I-VI)</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="595">Virgil</dc:author>
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    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0199231958</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>-29</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Poetry</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC (between 29 and 19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half treats the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.
&lt;br /&gt;The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad; Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="22">
    <dc:title>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="13">Lewis Carroll</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/22</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0785824464</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1897</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Young Readers</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Fantasy</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.
&lt;br /&gt;The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies), and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the genre of literary nonsense, and its narrative course and structure has been enormously influential, mainly in the fantasy genre.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="1487">
    <dc:title>Anna Karenina</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="28">Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/1487</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:1593080271</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1877</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Romance</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="92">
    <dc:title>The Call of the Wild</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="34">Jack London</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/92</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0753454939</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1903</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Adventure</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the days of the 19th century Klondike Gold Rushes.
&lt;br /&gt;Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is one of London's most-read books, and it is generally considered one of his best. Because the protagonist is a dog, it is sometimes classified as a juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence.
&lt;br /&gt;London followed the book in 1906 with White Fang, a companion novel with many similar plot elements and themes as The Call of the Wild, although following a mirror image plot in which a wild wolf becomes civilized by a mining expert from San Francisco named Weedon Scott.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="3839">
    <dc:title>Cyrano de Bergerac</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="1036">Edmond Rostand</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/3839</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:2290335282</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>fr</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1897</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Romance</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Plays</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>War</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Une repr&#233;sentation &#224; l'h&#244;tel de Bourgogne (en 1640). La salle du th&#233;&#226;tre se remplit: on va y donner une pastorale, la Clorise, dans le genre pr&#233;cieux. Le jeune et beau Christian de Neuvillette y vient contempler la femme qu'il aime: Roxane, une pr&#233;cieuse &#171;&#233;pouvantablement ravissante&#187; &#224; qui le comte de Guiche fait la cour. La pi&#232;ce commence, mais est vite interrompue par le turbulent Cyrano de Bergerac, qui interdit &#224; l'acteur Montfleury de jouer, car il est trop gros! Des spectateurs protestent, et l'un d'eux provoque Cyrano, en critiquant son nez, &#171;tr&#232;s grand&#187; &#8212; ce &#224; quoi le h&#233;ros r&#233;plique par la c&#233;l&#232;bre &#171;tirade des nez&#187;, &#233;loge de sa propre laideur, avant de se battre avec l'importun. Pendant le duel, il compose une ballade (&#171;&#192; la fin de l'envoi, je touche!&#187;). &#192; son ami Le Bret, il confesse qu'il aime passionn&#233;ment Roxane sa cousine, mais sa laideur le laisse sans espoir...&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="73">
    <dc:title>The Count of Monte Cristo</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="25">Alexandre Dumas</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/73</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:037576030X</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1845</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Adventure</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, p&#232;re. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. It is also among the highest selling books of all time. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.
&lt;br /&gt;The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815&#8211;1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book. It is primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, forgiveness and death, and is told in the style of an adventure story.
&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="4112">
    <dc:title>David Copperfield</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="21">Charles Dickens</dc:author>
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    <dc:language>es</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1850</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;David Copperfield es una novela escrita por Charles Dickens y publicada por primera vez en 1850.
&lt;br /&gt;Al igual que el resto de sus obras (a excepci&#243;n de cinco de ellas), esta novela fue publicada en cap&#237;tulos mensuales. Muchos elementos de la novela hacen referencia a la propia vida de Dickens, siendo probablemente la m&#225;s autobiogr&#225;fica de todas sus obras. As&#237; tambi&#233;n, el mismo Dickens se&#241;al&#243; en un pr&#243;logo de la novela &quot;de todos mis libros, &#233;ste es el que m&#225;s me gusta&quot;, y luego &quot;como muchos padres, tengo un hijo preferido, un hijo que es mi debilidad; este hijo se llama David Copperfield&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="183">
    <dc:title>Don Quixote</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="87">Miguel Cervantes</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/183</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:B001AAWVRY</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1615</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Humor/Satire</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years. &lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="95">
    <dc:title>Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="37">Robert Louis Stevenson</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/95</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:1593081316</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1886</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Horror</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil personality each being quite distinct from each other; in mainstream culture the very phrase &quot;Jekyll and Hyde&quot; has come to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. This is different from multiple personality disorder where the different personalities do not necessarily differ in any moral sense. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was an immediate success and one of Stevenson's best-selling works. Stage adaptations began in Boston and London within a year of its publication and it has gone on to inspire scores of major film and stage performances.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="88">
    <dc:title>Dracula</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="31">Bram Stoker</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/88</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0743477367</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1897</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Horror</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Gothic</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.
&lt;br /&gt;Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="5">
    <dc:title>Dubliners</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="4">James Joyce</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/5</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0486268705</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1914</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Short Fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Collections</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
&lt;br /&gt;The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They center on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="45">
    <dc:title>Emma</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="18">Jane Austen</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/45</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0553212737</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1816</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Romance</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as &quot;handsome, clever, and rich&quot; but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel, Austen wrote, &quot;I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="170">
    <dc:title>Ethan Frome</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="35">Edith Wharton</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/170</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0735101191</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1911</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="4156">
    <dc:title>Far from the Madding Crowd</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="48">Thomas Hardy</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/4156</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1874</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Romance</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene inherits her own farm, she attracts three very different suitors; the seemingly commonplace man-of-the-soil Gabriel Oak, the dashing young soldier Francis Troy, and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. Her choice, and the tragedy it provokes, lie at the centre of Hardy's ambivalent story.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="91">
    <dc:title>Frankenstein</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="33">Mary Shelley</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/91</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0743487583</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1818</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Science Fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Horror</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Gothic</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as &quot;Frankenstein&quot;, despite this being the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the &quot;over-reaching&quot; of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is arguably considered the first fully realized science fiction novel.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="70">
    <dc:title>Great Expectations</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="21">Charles Dickens</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/70</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0192833596</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1861</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular, having been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times.
&lt;br /&gt;Great Expectations is written in a semi-autobiographical style, and is the story of the orphan Pip, writing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood. The story can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people.
&lt;br /&gt;The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve, 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old, to the winter of 1840.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="159">
    <dc:title>Gulliver's Travels</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="53">Jonathan Swift</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/159</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0451527321</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1726</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Humor/Satire</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the &quot;travellers' tales&quot; literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
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  <book id="674">
    <dc:title>Hard Times</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="21">Charles Dickens</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/674</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0553210165</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1850</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
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  <book id="15">
    <dc:title>Heart of Darkness</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="10">Joseph Conrad</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/15</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0486264645</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1902</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born J&#243;zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.
&lt;br /&gt;This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary.
&lt;br /&gt;The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
    <dc:rights>This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.</dc:rights>
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  <book id="1513">
    <dc:title>The House of the Seven Gables</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="234">Nathaniel Hawthorne</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/1513</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0553212702</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1851</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Romance</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Gothic</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family&#8217;s salvation&#8212;or its downfall.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables &#8220;a Romance,&#8221; and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared &#8220;the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel.&#8221;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="71">
    <dc:title>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="24">Mark Twain</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/71</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0520228383</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1885</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Young Readers</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Adventure</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Humor/Satire</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry &quot;Huck&quot; Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.
&lt;br /&gt;The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="2962">
    <dc:title>The Iliad of Homer</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="616">Homer</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/2962</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:B0012AHIYI</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>-900</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Poetry</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>War</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper.
&lt;br /&gt;The Iliad is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the late 9th or to the 8th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the ancient Greek language, making it one of the first works of ancient Greek literature. The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence, possible multiple authors .&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="34">
    <dc:title>The Invisible Man</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="14">H. G. Wells</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/34</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0451528522</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1897</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Science Fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. Wells' novel was originally serialised in Pearson's Magazine in 1897, and published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
    <dc:rights>This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923).</dc:rights>
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  <book id="2942">
    <dc:title>Julius Caesar</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="494">William Shakespeare</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/2942</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0174435908</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1599</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Plays</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator of the same name, his assassination and its aftermath. It is one of several Roman plays that he wrote, based on true events from Roman history, which also include Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra.
&lt;br /&gt;Although the title of the play is Julius Caesar, Caesar is not the central character in its action; he appears in only three scenes, and is killed at the beginning of the third act. The protagonist of the play is Marcus Brutus, and the central psychological drama is his struggle between the conflicting demands of honour, patriotism, and friendship.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="3384">
    <dc:title>The Jungle</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="806">Upton Sinclair</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/3384</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1906</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by author and socialist journalist Upton Sinclair. It was written about the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century. The novel depicts in harsh tones the poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the &quot;have-nots&quot;, which is contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption on the part of the &quot;haves&quot;. The sad state of turn-of-the-century labor is placed front and center for the American public to see, suggesting that something needed to be changed to get rid of American &quot;wage slavery&quot;. The novel is also an important example of the &quot;muckraking&quot; tradition begun by journalists such as Jacob Riis. Sinclair wanted to persuade his readers that the mainstream American political parties offered little means for progressive change.
&lt;br /&gt;Upton Sinclair came to Chicago with the intent of writing The Jungle; he had been given a stipend by the socialist newspaper The Appeal to Reason. Upon his arrival in the lobby of the Chicago Transit House, a hotel near the stockyards, he was quoted as saying, &quot;Hello! I'm Upton Sinclair, and I'm here to write the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Labor Movement!&quot; (Arthur, 43). He rented living quarters and immediately immersed himself in the city by walking its streets, talking to its people, and taking pictures. One Sunday afternoon, he worked his way into a group of Asian immigrants getting together for a wedding party &#8211; &quot;Behold, there was the opening scene of my story, a gift from the gods&quot;. He was welcomed to the festivities and stayed until two o'clock in the morning.
&lt;br /&gt;The novel was first published in serial form in 1906 by The Appeal to Reason. &quot;After five rejections&quot;, its first edition as a novel was published by Doubleday, Page &amp; Company on February 28, 1906, and it became an immediate bestseller. It has been in print ever since.
&lt;br /&gt;Source: Wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
    <dc:rights>This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only.</dc:rights>
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  <book id="2940">
    <dc:title>King Lear</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="494">William Shakespeare</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/2940</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:1903436591</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1606</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Plays</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606, and is considered one of his greatest works. The play is based on the legend of King Leir of Britain. It has been widely adapted for stage and screen, with the part of Lear being played by many of the world's most accomplished actors. (From Wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="3347">
    <dc:title>The Last of the Mohicans</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="376">James Fenimore Cooper</dc:author>
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    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1826</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>History</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Adventure</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>War</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826.
&lt;br /&gt;It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time. Its narrative flaws were criticized from the start, and its length and elaborately formal prose style have reduced its appeal to later readers. Regardless, The Last of the Mohicans is widely read in American literature courses. This second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy is the best known. The Pathfinder, written 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel.
&lt;br /&gt;Cooper named a principal character Uncas after the most famous of the Mohicans. The real Mohicans lived in the colony of Connecticut in the mid-seventeenth century, and not in the New York frontier a century later. Uncas was a Mohegan, not a Mohican, and Cooper's usage has helped to confuse the names of two tribes to the present day. When John Uncas, his last surviving male descendant died in 1842, the Newark Daily Advertiser wrote &quot;Last of the Mohegans Gone&quot; lamenting the extinction of the tribe. The writer was not aware that Mohegans still existed then and to the present day.
&lt;br /&gt;The story takes place in 1757 during the Seven Years' War (known in America as the French and Indian War), when France and the United Kingdom battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. During this war, the French often allied themselves with Native American tribes in order to gain an advantage over the British, with unpredictable and often tragic results.
&lt;br /&gt;Source: Wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="2935">
    <dc:title>Macbeth</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="494">William Shakespeare</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/2935</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0521606861</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1606</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Plays</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare's plays, and is his shortest tragedy, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels, and has been adapted for opera, film, books, stage and screen. Often regarded as archetypal, the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends. For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and that by the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece. There are many superstitions centred on the belief the play is somehow &quot;cursed&quot;, and many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud, referring to it instead as &quot;The Scottish play&quot;. (From Wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="2042">
    <dc:title>Madame Bovary</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="127">Gustave Flaubert</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/2042</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0192840398</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1857</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Romance</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. It tells the tragic story of the romantic but empty-headed Emma Rouault. When Emma marries Charles Bovary, she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is an ordinary country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, Rodolphe, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. And Flaubert captures every step of this catastrophe with sharp-eyed detail and a wonderfully subtle understanding of human emotions. &lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="119">
    <dc:title>The Mayor of Casterbridge</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="48">Thomas Hardy</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/119</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0375760067</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1886</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard&#8212;having gained power and success as the mayor&#8212;finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin. &lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="2989">
    <dc:title>The Merchant of Venice</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="494">William Shakespeare</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/2989</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0521618754</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1598</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Plays</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps more remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for the character of Shylock.
&lt;br /&gt;The title character is the merchant Antonio, not the Jewish moneylender Shylock, who is the play's most prominent and more famous villain. Though Shylock is a tormented character, he is also a tormentor, so whether he is to be viewed with disdain or sympathy is up to the audience (as influenced by the interpretation of the play's director and lead actors). As a result, The Merchant of Venice is often classified as one of Shakespeare's problem plays.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="8">
    <dc:title>The Metamorphosis</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="6">Franz Kafka</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/8</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0553213695</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1912</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Short Fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Horror</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a &quot;monstrous vermin&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="54">
    <dc:title>Moby-Dick</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="20">Herman Melville</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/54</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0553213113</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1851</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Adventure</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby-Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby-Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to exact revenge.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="1231">
    <dc:title>Mrs. Dalloway</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="206">Virginia Woolf</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/1231</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0156628708</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1925</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels.
&lt;br /&gt;Created from two short stories, &quot;Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street&quot; and the unfinished &quot;The Prime Minister&quot;, the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time, and in and out of the characters' minds, to construct a complete image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="2117">
    <dc:title>My &#193;ntonia</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="296">Willa Cather</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/2117</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0743487699</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1918</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Western</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;My &#193;ntonia (first published 1918) is considered the greatest novel by American writer Willa Cather. My &#193;ntonia &#8212; pronounced with the accent on the first syllable of &quot;&#193;ntonia&quot; &#8212; is the final book of the &quot;prairie trilogy&quot; of novels by Cather, a list that also includes O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.My &#193;ntonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named &#193;ntonia.
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    <dc:rights>This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923).</dc:rights>
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  <book id="4149">
    <dc:title>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="1184">Frederick Douglass</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/4149</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1845</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Non-Fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Biography</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <userbook id="7333">
    <dc:title>The Iliad &amp; The Odyssey</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="49341">Homer</dc:author>
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    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>2007</dc:date>
    <dc:description>While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on history and literature, but the history of civilization itself.  Homer's epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the foundation upon which Ancient Greece developed not only its culture, but its societal values, religious beliefs, and practice of warfare as well.

This publication features the Samuel Butler translation; and while it strays from the poetic style reproduced by more well known translators like Robert Fagles and Robert Fitzgerald, the vision of the epics as if they were prose found in modern novels take their best form under Butler's most capable hand.

The Butler translation may be found at many websites on the Internet, but the source text reproduced for this publication is derived from he online library of the University of Adelaide in South Australia (http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/). The epic poems are reproduced under the freedoms specified by a Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/).</dc:description>
    <dc:subject>Epic Poetry</dc:subject>
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  <book id="56">
    <dc:title>Oliver Twist</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="21">Charles Dickens</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/56</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0486424537</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1867</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent's unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew features some of Dickens' most memorable characters, including the vicious Bill Sikes, gentle Nancy, and the juvenile pickpocket known as the Artful Dodger.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="2941">
    <dc:title>Othello</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="494">William Shakespeare</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/2941</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0521618762</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1603</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Plays</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story &quot;Moor of Venice&quot; by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and his trusted advisor Iago. Attesting to its enduring popularity, the play appeared in 7 editions between 1622 and 1705. Because of its varied themes &#8212; racism, love, jealousy and betrayal &#8212; it remains relevant to the present day and is often performed in professional and community theatres alike. The play has also been the basis for numerous operatic, film and literary adaptations. (From Wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="174">
    <dc:title>Paradise Lost</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="82">John Milton</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/174</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0393924289</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1667</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Poetry</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Religion</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books; a second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. The poem concerns the Judeo-Christian story of the Fall of Man; the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is &quot;justify the ways of God to men&quot; and elucidate the conflict between God's eternal foresight and free will.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="6">
    <dc:title>The Picture of Dorian Gray</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="5">Oscar Wilde</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/6</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0375751513</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1891</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, &quot;Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="4104">
    <dc:title>The Republic</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="144">Plato</dc:author>
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    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0199535760</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>-380</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Philosophy</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and Plato's best known work. In Plato's fictional dialogues the characters of Socrates as well as various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether the just man is happier than the unjust man by imagining a society ruled by philosopher-kings and the guardians. The dialogue also discusses the role of the philosopher, Plato's Theory of Forms, the place of poetry, and the immortality of the soul.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="102">
    <dc:title>Robinson Crusoe</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="40">Daniel Defoe</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/102</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0375757325</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1719</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Adventure</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a &quot;false document&quot; and gives a realistic frame story.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="2936">
    <dc:title>Romeo and Juliet</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="494">William Shakespeare</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/2936</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0486275574</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1597</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Romance</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Plays</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage &quot;star-cross'd lovers&quot; whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding households. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal &quot;young lovers&quot;. (From Wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="1523">
    <dc:title>The Scarlet Letter</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="234">Nathaniel Hawthorne</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/1523</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1850</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Romance</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Gothic</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to name the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne explores questions of grace, legalism, sin and guilt.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="53">
    <dc:title>Sense and Sensibility</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="18">Jane Austen</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/53</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0192804782</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1811</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Romance</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Elinor and Marianne are two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. Fortunately, a distant relative offers to rent the women a cottage on his property.
&lt;br /&gt;The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, where they experience both romance and heartbreak.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="3374">
    <dc:title>Siddhartha</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="692">Hermann Hesse</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/3374</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0553208845</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1922</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Philosophy</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Religion</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha.
&lt;br /&gt;The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, yet powerful and lyrical, style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse had spent some time in India in the 1910s. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s.
&lt;br /&gt;The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit language, siddha (gotten) + artha (meaning or wealth). The two words together mean &quot;one who has found meaning (of existence)&quot; or &quot;he who has attained his goals&quot;. The Buddha's name, before his renunciation, was Prince Siddhartha Gautama, later the Buddha. In this book, the Buddha is referred to as &quot;Gotama&quot;.
&lt;br /&gt;Source: Wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
    <dc:rights>This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only.</dc:rights>
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  <book id="3738">
    <dc:title>Silas Marner</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="132">George Eliot</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/3738</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0199536775</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1861</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Wrongly accused of theft and exiled by community of Lantern Yard, Silas Marner settles in the village of Raveloe, living as a recluse and caring only for work and money. Bitter and unhappy, Silas' circumstances change when an orphaned child, actually the unaknowledged child of Godfrey Cass, eldest son of the local squire, is left in his care.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="81">
    <dc:title>A Tale of Two Cities</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="21">Charles Dickens</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/81</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0553211765</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1859</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>History</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="2699">
    <dc:title>Tess of the d'Urbervilles</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="48">Thomas Hardy</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/2699</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0199537054</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1891</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Romance</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice.
&lt;br /&gt;Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as &quot;a pure woman,&quot; caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
    <dc:rights>This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.</dc:rights>
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  <book id="1234">
    <dc:title>To the Lighthouse</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="206">Virginia Woolf</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/1234</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0156907399</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1927</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration.
&lt;br /&gt;To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow. The novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls the power of childhood emotions and highlights the impermanence of adult relationships. One of the book's several themes is the ubiquity of transience.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
    <dc:rights>This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50.</dc:rights>
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  <book id="72">
    <dc:title>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="24">Mark Twain</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/72</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0520235754</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1876</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Adventure</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
    <dc:rights>This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.</dc:rights>
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  <book id="1232">
    <dc:title>Ulysses</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="4">James Joyce</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/1232</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0141182806</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1922</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Sexuality</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature.
&lt;br /&gt;Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main character, Leopold Bloom, during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title alludes to the hero of Homer's Odyssey (Latinised into Ulysses), and there are many parallels, both implicit and explicit, between the two works (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus).&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
    <dc:rights>This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923).</dc:rights>
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  <book id="300">
    <dc:title>The Turn of the Screw</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="113">Henry James</dc:author>
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    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:B0013PTRKK</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1898</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Ghost Stories</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Turn of the Screw is a short novel or a novella written by American writer Henry James. Originally published in 1898, it is ostensibly a ghost story that has lent itself well to operatic and film adaptation. Due to its ambiguous content and narrative skill, The Turn of the Screw became a favorite text of New Criticism.
&lt;br /&gt;The account has lent itself to dozens of different interpretations, often mutually exclusive, including those of a Freudian nature. Many critics have tried to determine what exactly is the nature of evil within the story.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
    <dc:rights>This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.</dc:rights>
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  <book id="2201">
    <dc:title>Uncle Tom's Cabin</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="309">Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/2201</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:1840224029</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1852</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much so in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="3914">
    <dc:title>Walden</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="106">Henry David Thoreau</dc:author>
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    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0807014257</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1854</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Non-Fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Philosophy</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Essay</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Biography</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's life for two years and two months in second-growth forest around the shores of Walden Pond, not far from his friends and family in Concord, Massachusetts. Walden was written so that the stay appears to be a year, with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau called it an experiment in simple living.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, and manual for self reliance. (from Wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <book id="83">
    <dc:title>War and Peace</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="28">Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/83</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:067003469X</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1869</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>History</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>War</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels.
&lt;br /&gt;War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. Though it is often called a novel today, it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed, Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
    <dc:rights>This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.</dc:rights>
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  <book id="135">
    <dc:title>Wuthering Heights</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="49">Emily Bront&#235;</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://feedbooks.com/book/135</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0553212583</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>1847</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Gothic</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Wuthering Heights is Emily Bront&#235;'s only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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