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- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
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- Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Ethics by Aristotle
- Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
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