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Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Turn of the Screw
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Fall of the House of Usher
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Meditations
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Enchiridion
Epictetus
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
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Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Genealogy of Morals
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The Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Republic
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The Republic
Plato
The Upanishads
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The Upanishads
Swami Paramananda
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Patañjali
The Persian Mystics: Jami
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The Persian Mystics: Jami
Jami
A Letter to a Hindu
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A Letter to a Hindu
Leo Tolstoy
Lives of the Necromancers
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Lives of the Necromancers
William Godwin
The Witch-Cult in Western Europe
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The Witch-Cult in Western Europe
Margaret Alice Murray
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
My Bondage and My Freedom
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My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass
The Story of My Life
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
The History of Herodotus
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The History of Herodotus
Herodotus
The Gallic Wars
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The Gallic Wars
Julius Caesar
Anabasis
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Anabasis
Xenophon
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Suetonius
Germania
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Germania
Tacitus