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LOVE AND SEX
=B–46= The Sexual Life of Man, Woman and Child. Dr. Isaac
Goldberg. (Chapters include “Sex,” “From Morality to Taste,” “Lust
and Love,” etc.)
=B–41= Love’s Coming of Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations
of the Sexes. Edward Carpenter. (Chapters include “Sex-Passion,”
“Man the Ungrown,” “Woman the Serf,” “Intermediate Sex,” “Note on
Preventive Checks to Population,” etc.)
=B–32= The History of a Woman’s Heart (Une Vie). Guy de
Maupassant. (Complete novel by the famous French master of
fiction.)
=B–3= The Love Sorrows of Young Werther. Goethe. (Famous love
story).
FICTION
=B–6= Zadig, or Destiny; Micromegas and The Princess of Babylon.
Voltaire. (Famous satirical fiction.)
=B–30= Candide: A Satire on the Notion That This Is the Best of
All Possible Worlds. Voltaire.
=B–12= Grimm’s Famous Fairy Tales.
=B–24= An Eye for an Eye. Clarence Darrow. (Complete Novel.)
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=B–31= The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes Story). Conan Doyle.
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FAMOUS PLAYS
=B–2= The Maid of Orleans: A Romantic Tragedy. Friedrich von
Schiller. Adapted from the German by George Sylvester Viereck.
=B–9= Faust (Part I). Goethe. Translated by Anna Swanwick. Edited,
with Introduction and Notes, by Margaret Munsterberg.
=B–10= Faust (Part II). Goethe. Translated by Anna Swanwick, etc.
=B–17= William Congreve’s Way of the World (A Comedy). With an
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Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Lloyd E. Smith.
=B–26= Nathan the Wise (Famous Liberal Play). Gotthold Ephraim
Lessing. Translated and Edited by Leo Markun.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY
=B–19= Persons and Personalities. Paragraphs and Essays. E.
Haldeman-Julius.
=B–8= The Fun I Get Out of Life. E. Haldeman-Julius.
=B–13= John Brown: The Facts of His Life and Martyrdom. E.
Haldeman-Julius.
=B–45= Confessions of a Young Man. George Moore.
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