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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
The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
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"The Professor", by Charlotte Bronte, was the author's first novel but it was not published until after her death (and perhaps she refashioned it to some degree later in her novel "Villette"). It is the tale of William Crimsworth, a man without parents and forsaken by his brother, who is forced to make ...Show more
The Speculative Fiction of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
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Although best known for his novels, Mark Twain was a prolific writer of short stories, many of which involved elements of science fiction--and this compilation highlights his finest works of speculative fiction. Twain applies his wit and imagination to the spinning of tales about mental telepathy, insta ...Show more
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Will Durant chronicles the lives and ideas of several key philosophical thinkers throughout history in this informative and eminently readable text. Beginning with Socrates and Plato and concluding with Friedrich Nietzsche, with twelve other prominent philosophers in betwee ...Show more
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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Recognized as one of the finest work of Hemingway, the novel revolve around a love story between the protagonist Jake Barnesand the promiscuous divorcée Lady Brett Ashley. The book displays and embodies the new sexual freedom that became typical of the 1920s.The book is set in the backdrop of Paris and ...Show more
The Waste Land - Prufrock, the Hollow Men and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This superb collection of 26 works features the poet's masterpiece, "The Waste Land"; the complete Prufrock and Other Observations ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Preludes," "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "Mr. Apollinax," "Morning at the Window," and others); "The Hollow Men ...Show more
There Once Was a Limerick Anthology: Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Woodrow Wilson and Others by Michael Croland (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem with a bouncy rhythm, and common varieties include geographical and bawdy limericks as well as tongue twisters and creative misspellings. Limerick legends ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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An experimental work that pushes the limits of what we know about the world and ourselves, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is one of the most beautifully crafted of all novels written in the English language.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized cla ...Show more
Totem and Taboo by *Sigmund Freud
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Category: Self Help | 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
Tulips and Chimneys by E. E. Cummings
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Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Harvard University graduate, is best known for his rejection of traditional poetic forms. As e. e. cummings, he conducted radical experiments with spelling, syntax, and punctuation that inspired a revolution in twentieth-c ...Show more