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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 Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Plays | Series: Dover Thrift S.
Wilde's witty and buoyant comedy of manners, filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams, reprinted from an authoritative British edition. Considered Wilde's most perfect work.
The Landlady by Fyodor Dostoevsky; C. J. Hogarth (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
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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Category: Ancient History | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
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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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
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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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
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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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
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
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin; T. Keane (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Celebrated title story plus The Shot, The Snowstorm, The Coffin-Maker, An Amateur Peasant Girl, and The Postmaster - all fascinating portraits of life in Tsarist Russia by one of that country’s greatest writers. Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia’s greatest poet and a versatile writer whose great gif ...Show more
The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Throughout his career, 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche explored the concept of the will to power, interpreting it variously as a psychological, biological, and metaphysical principle. This posthumously published volume collects his notes on the force that drives humans toward achiev ...Show more
Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Experience a taste of one of the English language's foremost writers of the 20th century. Originally published in 1923, Ernest Hemingway's Three Stories and Ten Poems feature some of the expatriate's lesser known, but still wonderful, works. The stories and poems include: "Up in Michigan""Out of Season" ...Show more
Totem and Taboo by *Sigmund Freud
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Category: Psychology | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest works, when first published in 1913, this book caused outrage. It remains the fullest exploration of Freud's most famous themes. Family, society, religion - ...Show more