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Poirot Investigates is a collection of eleven short stories involving the famed eccentric detective, Hercule Poirot. Throughout the tales Poirot must solve a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge.

On the day of his wedding, Edmond Dantès is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial. A fellow prisoner inspires Dantès to escape and guides him to a fortune in treasure.

The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text written by Vātsyāyana. It is widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behaviour. "Kāma" means desire, and "sūtra" literally means a thread or line that holds things together.

The story follows the adventures of Don Quixote, who decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world. He recruits a farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire and imagines that he is living out a knightly story.

This complete collection of strange and unusual stories from H. P. Lovecraft features an array of dark and supernatural themes, including non-human influences on humanity, fate, civilization under threat, risks of a scientific era, and superstition.

Marcus Aurelius' private notes are a significant source of the modern understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy, and have been praised by fellow writers, philosophers, monarchs, and politicians centuries after his death.

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. Each chapter is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy.

Blank Classics' Medium format 5.83X8.27 inch dotted bullet journal includes a blank table of contents and numbered pages. Dots are subtly arranged as a guide for writing, illustrations, and charts. Blank Classics' acid free paper, ensurs that the creativity within will stand the test of time.

Gone with the Wind depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following the destruction of the Civil War.

The Wealth of Nations offers one of the first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is a fundamental work in classical economics. Smith explores such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets.

The Anne of Green Gables Collection includes Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla of Ingleside. The six books in this set recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley.

A professor and his nephew enter an extinct volcano on a quest to reach the center of the earth. They soon find themselves at an underground ocean where the laws of science are redefined and prehistoric creatures are in abundance.

Blank Classics' Medium format 5.83X8.27 inch dotted bullet journal includes a blank table of contents and numbered pages. Dots are subtly arranged as a guide for writing, illustrations, and charts. Blank Classics' acid free paper, ensurs that the creativity within will stand the test of time.

The Deerslayer follows young frontiersman Natty Bumppo "Deerslayer," who has yet to kill his first man, in early eighteenth century New York.

At the tender age of fifteen Catherine has yet to find her prince in disguise. With many challenges in her way, romance stands at the ready to right the wrongs of self-interest, deception, and greed.

Prince Lev Myshkin, a young man whose open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight.

The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form. Each saying in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community.

Anna Karenina is the story of a married socialite and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story opens when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing.

A new translation of Hugo's novel, which, "beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, ... follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption"--

War and Peace charts the history of the French invasion of Russia, through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. War and Peace is well known as being one of the longest novels ever written and a central work of world literature.

Anna Komnene describes the political and military history of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, Emperor Alexios I. The text documents the Crusades and the conflicting perceptions of East and West in the early 12th century.

Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. The novel establishes a series of parallels between Homer's Odyssey and Ulysses.

In The Bhagavad Gita, prince Arjuna is filled with despair about the violence and death that war will cause. He seeks Krishna's counsel, who tells him to fulfill his warrior duty through "selfless action."

When d'Artagnan travels to Paris, he finds himself challenged to three duels with Athos, Porthos and Aramis. However, the foursome is attacked by the evil Cardinal Richelieu's guards, and d'Artagnan fights alongside them, proving his skills.

A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution.

The Discourses of Epictetus are a series of practical informal lectures. Epictetus directs his students to focus attention on their opinions, anxieties and desires so they may never fail to get what they desire. Also included is the Enchiridion.

A sailor called Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee.

When Count Dracula departs Transylvania on a Russian ship, crew members begin to mysteriously disappear. When Abraham Van Helsing is asked to intervene, he is forced to hunt newly made vampires, using a cross, garlic, and a wooden steak as weapons.

Dr. Peter Blood is an Irish physician who is arrested while attending to injured rebels. Blood is convicted of treason and sold into slavery in the Carribean where he is treated well for a slave due to his skill as a physician.