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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
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke; Reginald Snell (Commentaries by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Born in Prague when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and recognized today as a master of verse, poet Rainer Maria Rilke was considerably less well known in 1902 when he received a heartfelt letter from an aspiring poet. A 19-year-old student sent Rilke some of his verses, seeking an opinion of ...Show more
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
LEVIATHANLeviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil--commonly referred to as Leviathan--is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the struct ...Show more
London Journal by 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 the great metropolis from his native Edinburgh in 1762, and he kept a daily journal of his nine-month sojourn. Bawdy, witty, and brimming with fascinatin ...Show more
Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
William Faulkner's inspiration for his second novel, Mosquitoes (1927), was his involvement in the 1920s New Orleans creative community. Mosquitoes explores the themes of sexuality and the societal role of the artist as it follows a bohemian cast of characters on a four-day cruise aboard the yacht Nausi ...Show more
Selected Letters by JANE AUSTEN
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One of England's most popular novelists, Jane Austen wrote about life amid the gentry of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In her fiction, Austen analysed and satirized her world, particularly the expectations and duties of women in an unequal society. She was also a prolific correspondent, and he ...Show more
Seneca's Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Along with the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic is one of the major texts of Roman Stoic philosophy. Themes include the rational order of the universe, how to lead a simple life, the effects and benefits of misfortune, and the necessity of facing mortality.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - In Poetry and Prose by Jessie L. Weston (Translator)
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While the knights of King Arthur's Round Table are toasting the new year, a colossal stranger clad in green armor bursts in to deliver a formidable challenge: Any of them may strike off the intruder's head as long as he is prepared to receive a similar blow from the Green Knight in one year. Of all the ...Show more
Spring and All by William Carlos Williams
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Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination - a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams's best-known poetry, including Section I, wh ...Show more
Statesman and Sophist - Two Dialogues by Plató
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These two dialogues by the greatest of the ancient Greek philosophers explore a vital concern of a democratic society: how to define the special abilities and qualities that make a genuine statesman. They further examine the distinction between an authentic statesman and the sophist, an individual who p ...Show more
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 Declaration of Independence - And Other Great Documents of American History, 1775-1865 by John Grafton (Editor)
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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