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100 Great American Short Stories by John Grafton (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A remarkable celebration of America's literary legacy, this superb selection includes the very best tales from the 19th and 20th centuries. Features "The Man With Two Lives," Ambrose Bierce; "The Locket," Kate Chopin; "Out of Season," Ernest Hemingway; "In a Far Country," Jack London; "The Fiddler," Her ...Show more
Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Antichrist is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich K selitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo. The German title can be translated into English as both "The An ...Show more
Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A cavalry unit, having crossed the Sahara to relieve a besieged French Foreign Legion fort, arrives to an eerie silence -- the enemy has vanished, and the post's walls and ramparts are defended by dead men. The fort's commander, slain by a bayonet through the heart, clutches a letter that links the ridd ...Show more
Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
"It was an age of miracles," declared F. Scott Fitzgerald of the 1920s, "it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire." No author is more closely associated with the decade than Fitzgerald, who christened it the "Jazz Age" and chronicled its manners and morals. His lyrical, ...Show more
Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Here, in a dazzling panoply, are the legendary figures from the age of chivalry: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Robin Hood, Richard the Lionhearted and his crusaders, and a host of other famous and lesser-known characters. This collection includes tales from Camelot, dramatic narratives ...Show more
Cicero's Orations by Marcus Tullius Cicero; Charles Duke Yonge (Translator)
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The greatest orator of the late Roman Republic, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), influenced the course of European letters for centuries after his death. Through his writings, Renaissance and Enlightenment scholars encountered the riches of Classical rhetoric and philosophy. The elegance of his styl ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by F.M. Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
Reprint of the standard 1914 C. Garnett translation. Cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Dead Souls written by Nikolay Gogol in 1842 is not only a masterpiece of Russian literature but also a deep timeless social satire.The plot is evolving around enterprising protagonist Mr. Chichikov who is being sent to a small town NN where he is buying from local landlords "dead souls or the rights ...Show more
Droll Stories - Selected Tales by Honoré de Balzac
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Category: Childrens Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
These choice selections from Honor de Balzac's Droll Stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. Told in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais, they allegedly originated in manuscripts from the abbeys of Touraine. Originally published in three sets ...Show more
Faust Parts 1 & 2 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Hailed as Germany's greatest contribution to world literature, Goethe's Faust drew upon a folktale and Marlowe's Dr. Faustus for inspiration. But in this epic version, Faust sells his soul not for magic powers but for a heightened sense of existence. Part One covers his pact with Mephistopheles and sedu ...Show more
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next Join the Baltimore Gun Club as it embarks on the most ambitious endeavor in all of human history -- the construction of a cannon capable of delivering a projectile containing human payload to the Moon With the help of the preemi ...Show more
Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
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Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
"There are in Harmonium six or eight of the most beautiful poems an American has written. The poems see, feel, and think with equal success." -- Randall Jarrell, Poetry and The Age An executive with a Connecticut-based insurance company, Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) wrote poetry in the evenings and durin ...Show more