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Jane Eyre follows the emotions of its heroine and her love for Mr. Rochester. The focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral sensibility and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry.

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of political theory.

Leviathan ranks as a classic work on statecraft comparable to Machiavelli's The Prince. It concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is one of the most influential examples of social contract theory.

Treasure Island follows the adventures of a cabin boy named Jim Hawkins on board the Hispaniola. Hawkins is in for the adventure of a lifetime, as he braves dangerous waters, lives through a mutiny, and searches for buried treasure.

Candide is living a sheltered life and being indoctrinated by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. Voltaire describes the abrupt end of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences hardships in the world.

Rodion Raskolnikov kills an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash, defending his actions by arguing that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a vermin.

The Nicomachean Ethics is widely considered one of the most important historical philosophical works, becoming critical in the development of all modern philosophy as well as European law and theology.

Paradise Lost concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man. It follows two narrative arcs, one about Satan and the other Adam and Eve. The narrative follows the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of 2nd century Egyptian-Greek texts. The texts form the basis of Hermeticism, a religious, philosophical, and esoteric tradition that covers the divine, the cosmos, the mind, alchemy, astrology, and nature.

Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter.

The Kindergartener's Handbook introduces 19 basic concepts in English and Japanese. Included are ABCs, vowels, numbers, less and more, patterns, shapes, colors, time, seasons, the calendar, senses, rhymes, habitat, weather, chores, and school. This book develops language and reading skills using more than 300 words that every kid should know. Simple words are used to help children read on their own, and more complicated words are presented to help them expand their vocabulary. Vibrant colors and images are designed to keep the attention of children. This book will help your child learn a variety of important concepts in English and Japanese before first grade.

Self-Reliance is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Also included are the essays The Over Soul, Circles, The Poet, Experience, Nature, and Friendship.

The prophet is stopped by a group with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The prophet advises on many topics including love, marriage, children, giving, work, laws, freedom, prayer, pleasure, religion, and death.

Mansfield Park begins with the marriage of three sisters to a wealthy baronet, a clergyman, and a naval lieutenant. When the Crawford's move to the area, a comedy of errors develops involving betrayal, adultery, and social ruin.

Orthodoxy views Christianity as the answer to natural human needs, the "answer to a riddle" in G. K. Chesterton's own words, and not simply as an arbitrary truth received from somewhere outside the boundaries of human experience.

Allan Quatermain, an adventurer and hunter, is approached by Sir Henry Curtis, seeking his help finding Sir Henry's brother, who was last seen travelling north into the unexplored interior on a quest for the fabled King Solomon's Mines.

Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue depicting a conversation between Socrates and a small group of sophists at a dinner. Socrates debates with the sophist unveiling the flaws of the sophistic oratory popular in Athens at the time.

Lucius has an insatiable desire to see and practice magic. While trying to perform a spell to transform into a bird, he is accidentally transformed into an ass. This leads to a long journey, literal and metaphorical, filled with inset tales.

Set just before World War I, The Good Soldier chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham and his seemingly perfect marriage, as well as the marriage of Edward's American friend, John Dowell.

Haunted by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death, the House of the Seven Gables is now home to shop-keeper Hepzibah Pyncheon and her brother Clifford, who has just completed a thirty-year sentence for murder.

Rudyard Kipling began working on Just So Stories by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain.

Eugene Onegin is a bored St. Petersburg dandy, whose life consists of balls, concerts, parties, and nothing more. When he inherits a substantial fortune and an estate, he moves to the country where he strikes up a friendship with his neighbor.

The beautiful Circassian princess Bela is kidnapped by a man named Azamat, who trades her for a horse. She is taken to the home of Pechorin, a man who treats women as an incentive for endless conquests.

Dark Night of the Soul narrate the journey of the soul to mystical union with God. The soul experiences two necessary purgations on the path to Divine union: the sensory and spiritual parts of the soul.

The Upanishads are ancient Sanskrit texts of spiritual teaching and ideas of Hinduism. They are the part of the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, the Vedas, which deal with meditation, philosophy, and spiritual knowledge.

Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism between liberals of the 1830s and the growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists and the liberals sought Western-based social change in Russia.

The Blazing World is a satirical, utopian kingdom that can be accessed through the North Pole. A young woman enters this world, becomes the empress of a society composed of talking animals, and organizes an invasion back into her world.