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THE THEBAN PLAYS OEDIPUS REX OEDIPUS AT by SOPHOCLES
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The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama. Sophocles' three-play cycle, chronicling Oedipus's search for the truth and its tragic results, remains essential reading for English and classical studies ...Show more
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay: The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie
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Category: Biography | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
One of the earliest memoirs of an American capitalist, this volume appeared shortly after the 84-year-old author's death in 1919. Its real-life, rags-to-riches tale recounts the Scottish immigrant's rise from telegrapher's clerk to captain of industry and steel magnate. Includes "Gospel of Wealth," an i ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
This brilliant work by one of Russia's foremost novelists teems with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues. Three brothers, involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father, find their lives irrevocably altered as they are driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and reve ...Show more
The Declaration of Independence - And Other Great Documents of American History, 1775-1865 by John Grafton (Editor)
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Category: History | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The great documents in this important collection helped form the foundation of American democratic government. Compelling, influential, and often inspirational, they range from Patrick Henry's dramatic "Give me liberty or give me death" speech at the start of the American Revolution to Abraham Lincoln's ...Show more
The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Shikibu Murasaki; Amy Lowell (Foreword by); Annie Shepley Omori (Translator); Kochi Doi (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Derived from the journals of an empress's tutor and companion, this unique book offers rare glimpses of court life in eleventh-century Japan. Lady Murasaki recounts episodes of drama and intrigue among courtiers as well as the elaborate rituals related to the birth of a prince. Her observations, express ...Show more
The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
All human behaviors and traits, according to this 1923 study, derive from the complicated interactions of three elements of the psyche: the id, the ego, and the superego. The root of Sigmund Freud's approach to psychiatric treatment resides in bringing the id, the hidden source of human passion, to the ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
A towering figure of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky depicted with remarkable insight the depth and complexity of the human soul. In this literary classic, he focuses on a nobleman, whose gentle, child-like nature has earned him the nickname of "the idiot."A superb, panoramic view of mid-19th-cen ...Show more
The Landlady by Fyodor Dostoevsky; C. J. Hogarth (Translator)
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Generally considered something of a departure for Dostoyevsky, The Landlady was first published in 1847, when most of the author's classic novels were still in his future. Set in Saint Petersburg, the novella tells of a brooding, reclusive scholar, Vasily Mikhailovich Ordynov, who develops an obsession ...Show more
The Memorabilia by Xenophon
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Philosopher, soldier, and historian, Xenophon was a former student of Socrates who composed The Memorabilia many years after his teacher's trial and execution in 399 B.C. This collection of Socratic dialogues presents not the philosopher's actual defense to the Athenian court but rather a more general a ...Show more
The New York Stories of O. Henry (Dover Thrift Edition) by O. Henry
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With East Side tenements, Wall Street offices, and Fifth Avenue as their backdrops, these colorful tales by a master storyteller recount the dreams and passions of New Yorkers at the turn of the twentieth century. As O. Henry, William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) wrote more than 600 short stories, many of ...Show more
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon; Arthur Waley (Translator)
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In the tenth century, Japan was both physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. The Pillow Book recaptures this lost world with the diary of a young court lady. Sei Shōnagon was a contemporary of Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote the well-known novel The Tale of Genji. Unlike the latter's ...Show more
The Power of Darkness - A Drama in Five Acts by Leo Tolstoy; Louise Maude (Translator); Aylmer Maude (Translator)
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Best known today as the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Count Leo Tolstoy also is acknowledged as a skilled playwright. His five-act drama The Power of Darkness offers a cold and unsparing look at Russian peasant life that illustrates the costs of pursuing personal desires rather than the di ...Show more