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Sketches by Boz

Charles Dickens

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• Before he was a world-famous storyteller, Charles Dickens was Boz, a reporter for the London tabloids. This collection of his brief essays and tales, ... Lees meer

Major Barbara

George Bernard Shaw

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• Fabian socialist and ardent proselytizer, George Bernard Shaw viewed his role as a playwright as far more than that of an entertainer. His audiences h... Lees meer

Early Poems

William Carlos Williams

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• One of the most original and widely imitated poets of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) wrote verse firmly rooted in concrete... Lees meer

Native American Songs and Poems

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• In this carefully chosen collection, encompassing traditional songs and contemporary Native American poetry, readers will find a treasury of lyrics ve... Lees meer

Five Great Short Stories

Anton Chekhov

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• Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), a Russian physician, short-story writer, and playwright, wrote hundreds of stories that delved beneath the surfac... Lees meer

Book of Psalms-KJV-Unabridged

King James Bible

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• Among the best known and most quoted books of the Old Testament, the Book of Psalms contains some 150 hymns of praise, prayers of crisis, and songs of... Lees meer

Selected Letters of Abigail and John Adams

John Adams, Abigail Adams

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• "America's first power couple," John and Abigail Adams enjoyed a relationship of mutual respect and affection. Their exchange of more than 1,000 lette... Lees meer

Great Short Stories by American Women

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• Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in th... Lees meer

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

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• Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures as well as methods of science were in flux and open to interpretat... Lees meer

Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• In the pantheon of English poets, Shelley has long occupied a lofty place, his poems as admired for their profound thought and subtle perceptions as f... Lees meer

Great English Essays

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• This collection, spanning four centuries of English wit, wisdom, and common sense, contains the thoughts of a number of renowned masters of the essay.... Lees meer

Family Happiness and Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy

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• Although best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy did not confine his literary talents to voluminous works. He was also a master of... Lees meer

The Philosophy of Epicurus

Epicurus

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• Despite its modern-day connotations of hedonism, "Epicureanism" has more to do with living a mindful, uncomplicated life. Epicurus -- who was born at ... Lees meer

Pensées

Blaise Pascal

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• "I know of no religious writer more pertinent to our time." -- T. S. Eliot, Introduction to Pensées "Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid... Lees meer

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

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• "This early novel is now held to be a very critical and pivotal one in the whole development of the novelist, and this new edition provides . . . a fi... Lees meer

Great Speeches by Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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• In addition to being one of America's greatest novelists and humorists, Mark Twain (1835-1910) was a captivating public speaker. Once he became an est... Lees meer

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

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• When Fanny Price comes to live with her well-to-do cousins at Mansfield Park, the modest, retiring ten-year-old is treated condescendingly by members ... Lees meer

Essays on Civil Disobedience

Bob Blaisdell

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• Inexpensive but substantial, this anthology ranges from Henry David Thoreau's great nineteenth-century polemics Civil Disobedience and Slavery in Mass... Lees meer

The World's Greatest Short Stories

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• Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the Uni... Lees meer

The Nigger of the Narcissus

Joseph Conrad

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• When a black sailor with tuberculosis boards the Narcissus, the shadow of death falls across the ship and the lingering gloom brings out both the best... Lees meer

Imagist Poetry

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• Many of the 20th century's most important and influential poets rallied under the banner of Imagism, a radical poetic movement that extended the front... Lees meer

Exiles

James Joyce

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• One of the most widely read novelists of the twentieth century, James Joyce is famed for his mastery of expression. His unprecedented exploration of t... Lees meer

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Temperament and poor health motivated Robert Louis Stevenson to travel widely throughout his short life, and before he was celebrated as the author of... Lees meer

The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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• The intrigues of such aptly named characters as Lady Sneerwell, Sir Joseph Surface, Lady Candour, and Sir Benjamin Backbite have amused theater audien... Lees meer