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  • Fanny Hill

    Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

    Series Book 11 - Smith & Taylor Classics
    Banned from publication in the United States until 1966 for its assumed obscenity, immorality, and lack of literary merit, Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749), is a novel considered to be the first original English prose erotica.This is the tale of the titular Fanny Hill, told to us in her own letters with “stark naked truth.” Young, orphaned, and naïve, she recounts her early ... Read more

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  • Dodsworth

    Series Book 13 - Smith & Taylor Classics
    Dodsworth (1929) follows Sam Dodsworth, a wealthy Midwestern automobile magnate, who embarks on a European journey with his restless wife, Fran. While Fran chases glamour and social status abroad, Sam confronts questions of love, identity, and cultural values. Through this story of marriage, ambition, and disillusionment, Sinclair Lewis offers a sharp critique of American materialism and the ... Read more

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  • My Brilliant Career

    Series Book 14 - Smith & Taylor Classics
    Follow wild-haired Sybylla as she picks up her pen to try and write her way out of oppressive poverty in rural Australia, her father’s drinking debts, and obscene marriage proposals that simply cramp her style. Miles Franklin is Australia’s progressive literary star!Consider signing up for our 2026 Smith & Taylor Subscription, and get My Brilliant Career alongside six other incredible titles as ... Read more

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  • The Odd Women

    Series Book 2 - Smith & Taylor Classics
    When their father’s death leaves them with no money and a dim future, the Madden sisters, Alice, Virginia, and Monica, must negotiate the gender roles and class constraints of Victorian London in the 1890s. Virginia and Alice have aged out of the possibility of marriage and seemingly the idea of love itself and find themselves with few prospects and little hope. Remaindered in the marriage ... Read more

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  • The Country of Pointed Firs

    Series Book 3 - Smith & Taylor Classics
    A nameless female writer has come to Dunnet Landing, a small town on the coast of Maine, for the summer in order to finish her manuscript. Once there, she finds herself absorbed in the rhythms of daily life, which come at a much-altered pace than the city she’s left behind. Her observations of the residents of Dunnet Landing—their loves, their fights, their occupation with sky and sea and land, ... Read more

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  • Twilight Sleep

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series Book 1 - Smith & Taylor Classics
    Mrs. Pauline Manford is a busy woman, as any upstanding New York society lady should be.Parties, dinners, charity luncheons, balls, and strict exercise and beauty regimes fill her daily schedule to an exhausting degree. Her secretary can hardly keep up. To manage a modern household is to hold the family together, staying on trend with all things helpful, but her daughter has horrible taste in ... Read more

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  • The Toilers of the Sea

    Series Book 4 - Smith & Taylor Classics
    “No character was ever thrown into such strange relief as Gilliatt… here, indeed, the true position of man in the universe.” —Robert Louis StevensonThe Toilers of the Sea tells the tale of Gilliatt, an outcast fisherman who must rescue one of the engines from a wrecked steamship. If successful, he will win the hand of the shipowner's beautiful daughter, Deruchette. He will brave the harsh rocks, ... Read more

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  • The Way of All Flesh

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  • Seven Little Australians

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  • The Memoirs of Fanny Hill

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