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100 Great American Short Stories by John Grafton (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | 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
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: 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
Droll Stories - Selected Tales by Honoré de Balzac
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Category: 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
Favorite Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Critic, author, and debunker extraordinaire, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) delighted in probing the ambiguities of Christian theology. A number of his most successful attempts at combining first-rate fiction with acute social observation appear in this original selection from his best detective stories f ...Show more
Golden Bough: Abridged Addition by Sir James George Frazer
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
According to legend, runaway slaves could attain a sort of freedom by breaking off a branch -- the Golden Bough -- from a sacred tree. If the runaway could kill the tree's attendant priest, he would become King of the Wood until his defeat by a new challenger. This 1890 work by Sir James George Frazer, ...Show more
Selected Letters by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
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
The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Shikibu Murasaki; Amy Lowell (Foreword by); Annie Shepley Omori (Translator); Kochi Doi (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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 Early Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald; James Daley (Editor); Dover Thrift Dover Thrift Editions
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
"Ideal for students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the literary works of an iconic American author. Very highly recommended." ― The Midwest Book ReviewAlthough better known today for his novels, in the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald ranked among the top writers of magazine fiction. Fi ...Show more
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud; W. D. Robson-Scott (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Psychology Ser.
In The Future of an Illusion, Freud's psychoanalysis of religion is the culmination of a lifelong thought pattern. Freud examines human nature and the role of religion in society, proclaiming that human instincts are destructive to civilization and must be restrained to maintain an orderly society. Reli ...Show more
The Last Trail by Zane Grey
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Last Trailauthor: Zane Greyy in a little grass-bound lake which forced water through half-hollowed logs into a spring house.