Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

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• How do we decide what is good and what is bad? According to the ethical theory of Utilitarianism, to do good is to always perform that act, of those a... Lees meer

Fyodor Dostoyevsky the Dover Reader

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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• Noted for his sympathetic portrayals of the downtrodden members of nineteenth-century Russian society, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) has exercised im... Lees meer

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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• Considered one of Ivan Turgenev's finest works, Fathers and Sons was the first of the great nineteenth-century Russian novels to achieve international... 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

Tartuffe

Molière

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• Renowned for his satirical works, Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673) delighted in lampooning the social pretensions and conceits of 17th-cent... Lees meer

Irish Verse

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• Celebrated for their unique poetic sensibility and wondrous way with words, the Irish have produced a rich heritage of great poetry. This volume attes... Lees meer

The Story of an African Farm

Olive Schreiner

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• In writing the first great South African novel, Olive Schreiner drew on childhood memories of life on the isolated African veld to fashion a powerful ... Lees meer

The Wild Duck

Henrik Ibsen

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• This 1884 masterpiece may have its genesis in the hostile reception Ibsen -- widely regarded as the father of modern realist drama -- had received fro... 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

The Woodlanders

Thomas Hardy

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• Before Grace Melbury went away to school, she was in love with Giles Winterborne, a simple woodsman in the forests of Blackmoore Vale. But Grace's sch... Lees meer

The Cavalier Poets

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• In the mid-seventeenth century, the poets associated with the court of Charles I of England, known as the Cavaliers, were strongly influenced by the c... Lees meer

Thr Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen a Douglas

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• One of the most significant and far-reaching events in U. S. history, the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 sharpened and brought to a head a number of ... Lees meer

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

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

Monday or Tuesday

Virginia Woolf

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• One of the most distinguished critics and innovative authors of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published two novels before this collection appe... Lees meer

Five Great Short Stories

Jack London

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• One of the most widely read of all American writers, Jack London (1876-1916) based his novels and stories on the experiences and observations of a lif... Lees meer

The Lost World

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Headed by the larger than life figure of Professor Challenger, a scientific expedition sets out to explore a mysterious plateau in the Amazon rainfore... 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

The Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald

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• "One of the most important works in American literature -- and, to many, the great American novel." -- Time . "I want to write something new, " F. Sco... Lees meer

Aeneid

Virgil

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• Considered the greatest Roman poet, Vergil spent over a decade working on this monumental epic poem, which has been a source of literary inspiration a... Lees meer

Alexander's Bridge

Willa Cather

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• Construction engineer and world-renowned bridge builder Bartley Alexander has everything in mid-life: wealth, good looks, and fame. Yet he finds himse... Lees meer

Pierre; Or, the Ambiguities

Herman Melville

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• Pierre Glendinning is prepared to inherit his father's estate when he meets a woman claiming to be his half-sister. Attracted to the mysterious lady a... Lees meer

Ramona

Helen Hunt Jackson

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• The orphaned daughter of a Scottish merchant and his Native American bride, Ramona grows up in the southern California of the nineteenth century, a go... Lees meer

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte, Bronte

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• Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cat... Lees meer