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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

Claribel : $b or, Rest at last
Lucy Ellen Guernsey

The happiness of Hazelbrook
Charlotte Grace O'Brien

The Enchiridion
Epictetus

As a man thinketh
James Allen

Der Struwwelpeter: oder lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder
Heinrich Hoffmann

The game of life and how to play it
Florence Scovel Shinn

Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures
Heinrich Hoffmann

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett

Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey
Ingersoll Lockwood

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life
Arthur Schopenhauer

The Marvelous Land of Oz
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Fighting for fortune : $b or, Making a place for himself
Roy Franklin

The Crown of Wild Olive: also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
John Ruskin

Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals
William James

The strange house : $b or, A moment's mistake
Catharine Shaw

Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
Unknown

Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
Samuel Smiles

Pollyanna
Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Margaret Sidney

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
David Hume

Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Cautionary Tales for Children
Hilaire Belloc

Letters to His Son, Complete: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni: The Oldest Books in the World
Ptahhotep

L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The Beast in the Jungle
Henry James