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   The poetical works of Lord Byron

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   A sweeping, stormy immersion into the heights of romantic passion and the depths of cynical despair.

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   A short but comprehensive system of the geography of the world

   Nathaniel Dwight

   Step into an 18th-century schoolhouse with this catechetical journey through the globe as it was once understood.

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   Aus meinem Leben

   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   An elegant, sweeping reflection on the alchemy of memory, art, and the making of a literary genius.

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   The vision of Columbus

   Joel Barlow · 1787

   An earnest, sweeping poetic epic that captures the foundational myths and historical weight of early America.

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   Faust

   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   A tempestuous, poetic descent into the intoxicating and tragic depths of human ambition and demonic temptation.

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   The holy war

   John Bunyan · 1865

   A grand, allegorical siege of the human soul, where cosmic forces clash over the citadel of the heart.

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   The works of Horace

   Horace

   A timeless invitation to pour a glass of wine, retreat to the countryside, and ponder the fleeting, beautiful nature of a well-lived life.

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   • contemplative
   • convivial
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   Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar

   Lindley Murray

   Step into an austere nineteenth-century schoolroom and submit to the rigid, comforting architecture of early English grammar.

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   Childe Harold's pilgrimage

   Lord George Gordon Byron

   A brooding, atmospheric journey through the ruins of Europe with a narrator who is entirely over society but deeply in love with the sublime.

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    Memorabilia

    Xenophon

    A grounded, affectionate portrait of a legendary philosopher that trades abstract metaphysics for practical, everyday wisdom.

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    Morgenlandfahrt

    Hermann Hesse

    A surreal, quiet pilgrimage into the depths of the soul, where the true destination is the dissolution of the ego.

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    Pervai͡a︡ li͡u︡bovʹ

    Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

    A sun-drenched, aching portrait of youthful infatuation colliding with the dark, complicated realities of adult passion.

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