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Just so stories for little children. Stalky & Co.
Of Mice and Men
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
White Noise
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Mrs. Warren's Profession
The Jungle Book
The Second Jungle Book
The education of Henry Adams
Angle of repose
Babbitt
Moby Dick
Les Misérables
My Ántonia
Decamerone
The Moonstone
The House of Mirth
Tao te Ching
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Wind in the Willows
Inferno
Confessions
His Last Bow [8 stories]
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]
Walden
Robinson Crusoe
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
White Fang
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