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Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Seagoing tragedies are in vogue right now, and the greatest of them all is Moby Dick, the tale of a dangerously obsessed captain in pursuit of a great white whale. Melville based his novel on a true account of a whaling ship inexplicably attacked by a rampaging whale, but the American classic reaches beyond the riveting sea adventure to become a stirring allegory of man and nature, ambition and revenge.
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Henry James: The Beast in the Jungle
John Marcher spends his life with the ominous feeling that something significant -- "a crouching beast in the jungle" -- is destined to spring out and determine the course of his life. For years he awaits the beast, neurotically saving himself for the event that will define his fate. At last he is brought to understand what he has been waiting for, and a terrible realization it is, imbued with James's cruelest irony.
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
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Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo
One of the greatest thrillers of all time, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the tale of young Edmond Dantes, who, falsely accused of treason and arrested on his wedding day, escapes from a remote prison after 14 years to seek revenge on his enemies. Disguised as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, Dantes orchestrates the downfall of his accusers.
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Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope's 1894 novel relates the perilous and romantic adventure of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman of leisure who bears an uncanny resemblance to the King of Ruritania. During a secret visit to Zenda for the coronation, Rudolf finds himself impersonating the king to defend him from a treacherous plot; awakened from aristocratic complacency, this unlikely hero rises to the defense of his family honor.
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Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Written in China over 2000 years ago, Sun Tzu's The Art of War provides the first known attempt to formulate a rational basis for the planning and conduct of military operations. These wise, aphoristic essays contain principles acted upon by such 20th-century Chinese generals as Mao Tse-tung, by modern-day business strategists, and by people who are navigating their own lives. Still timely after all these years.
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Thomas More: Utopia
Thomas More's Utopia has had a far-reaching influence since it was first written in 1516. A traveler, Raphael Hythloday, describes a visit to an imaginary island, relating in close detail the social and political structure. No one owns private property, and the land is free of the tyranny that 16th-century Britons knew all too well. Imagining a better world is the first step to progress.
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