The Great Gatsby
Mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties on Long Island, hoping to recapture the love of Daisy Buchanan. Narrator Nick Carraway witnesses the glittering — and hollow — promise of the American Dream.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
Richard Hannay, bored with London, is pulled into a web of murder, espionage, and a mysterious cipher when a stranger is killed in his flat. Pursued across Scotland, he must unmask a conspiracy to steal Britain’s secrets.
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The Lost World
Professor Challenger leads an expedition to a remote South American plateau where dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures still roam. What begins as a scientific quest becomes a fight for survival in a forgotten world.
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Peter Pan
Wendy Darling and her brothers fly away with Peter Pan to Neverland, an island of fairies, pirates, and lost boys. There they battle Captain Hook and confront the choice between eternal childhood and growing up.
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The Secret Garden
Orphaned and spoiled, Mary Lennox is sent to her uncle’s bleak Yorkshire estate. She discovers a hidden, locked garden and, with new friends, brings it — and herself — back to life.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Beneath the Paris Opera House, a disfigured musical genius known as the Phantom exerts a terrifying hold over the young singer Christine. His love, obsession, and cruelty fuel a Gothic romance of music and madness.
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The Wind in the Willows
Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger share gentle adventures along the riverbank and in the Wild Wood. When the irrepressible Toad’s motorcar obsession lands him in trouble, his friends must rescue both his home and his good name.
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White Fang
Born wild in the Yukon, the wolf-dog White Fang endures hardship and cruelty at the hands of men before a kind master earns his loyalty. A gripping tale of the wild tamed by love.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
During the French Revolution, a mysterious Englishman known as the Scarlet Pimpernel smuggles doomed aristocrats to safety. The elusive hero’s identity becomes the obsession of the French agent Chauvelin.
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The Call of the Wild
Stolen from a comfortable California home, Buck is thrust into the brutal life of a Yukon sled dog during the Klondike gold rush. Stripped of civilization, he answers the primal call of the wild.
