The Longer Poems

William Shakespeare

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• Although we know him best as a playwright, Shakespeare was also a poet, living as he did in an age when the writing of verse enhanced an author's lite... Lees meer

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• One of the great American writers whose works enjoy popular appeal as well as critical acclaim, F. Scott Lyric, highly readable novel traces the meteo... Lees meer

The Father

August Strindberg

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• The stormy personal life of the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg was punctuated with duels between the sexes, with ruthless, aggressive women... Lees meer

Kate Chopin the Dover Reader

Kate Chopin

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• A precursor of the twentieth century's feminist authors, Kate Chopin (1850-1904) wrote short stories and novels for children and adults. The St. Louis... Lees meer

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile and Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter

Herman Melville

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• In this spirited saga, a promising young soldier is wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, sets sail with John Paul Jones, and undertakes espionage at ... Lees meer

My Inventions

Nikola Tesla

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• One of science's great unsung heroes, Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a prophet of the electronic age. His research laid much of the groundwork for moder... Lees meer

Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• America's most popular nineteenth-century poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow devoted himself to providing his country with a national mythology, poetic ... Lees meer

Essays on Teaching

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• Rich in insights and inspiration, this anthology surveys the challenges and rewards of teaching. Contributions range from essays by renowned educators... Lees meer

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

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• One of the earliest picaresque novels in English, Moll Flanders has both captivated and shocked countless readers since it was first published in 1722... Lees meer

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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• Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in the mid-nineteenth century, these philosophical essays were written by one of America's most celebrate... Lees meer

A Bottomless Grave

Hugh Lamb

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• Preoccupied with death, and repressed in many areas of their lives, Victorians seem to have found an emotional outlet in ghost stories, eerie tales, a... Lees meer

Civil War Poetry

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• The long agony of the American Civil War inspired a wealth of contemporary verse -- from sentimental doggerel to sublime lyrics that rank among the fi... Lees meer

A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

Jonathan Swift

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• The originality, concentrated power and fierce indignation of his satirical writing have earned Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) a reputation as the greates... Lees meer

The Admirable Crichton

James Matthew Barrie

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• Once a month, Lord Loam encourages his servants to enter the drawing room for tea. This ritual defiance of tradition disturbs Crichton, the butler, wh... Lees meer

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

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• A young Scot stumbles upon a plot involving espionage, murder, and the future of Britain itself. This classic of suspense served as the basis for one ... Lees meer

London Journal

James Boswell

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• Even if James Boswell hadn't written the The Life of Johnson, he would be famous for this memoir of eighteenth-century London life. Boswell arrived in... Lees meer

Droll Stories

Honoré de Balzac

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• Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, published in three installments in the 1830s, offers a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and man... Lees meer

Phèdre

Jean Racine

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• Based on Euripides' Hippolytus , this play by one of France's greatest playwrights is a magnificent example of character exposition. When the title ch... Lees meer

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the Dover Reader

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Knighted for his service as a field doctor during the Boer War, Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best remembered as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. I... Lees meer

Oscar Wilde the Dover Reader

Oscar Wilde

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• "An excellent collection of some of Oscar Wilde's key works. A useful and representative selection of his writings, ideal for those not already famili... Lees meer

The Heart of Happy Hollow

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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• Praised by The New York Times as "a true singer of the people -- white or black," Paul Laurence Dunbar published this short story collection in 1904, ... Lees meer

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• A powerful, passionate explanation of the roots of social inequality, Rousseau's Discourse influenced virtually every major philosopher of the Enlight... Lees meer

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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• Set in Manchester, England, at the height of the Industrial Revolution, this powerful novel recounts a working-class girl's attempts to escape the sic... Lees meer

Three Treatises on Copernican Theory

Nicolaus Copernicus

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• Universally regarded as a founder of modern astronomy, Copernicus wrote in Latin, and his works were unavailable in English until the publication of t... Lees meer