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Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
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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
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son is a darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their father's pride, edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders in Penguin Classics.To Paul Dombey, business is all and money can do anything. He runs his family life as ...Show more
Droll Stories - Selected Tales by Honoré de Balzac
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Category: Not a Book | 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
Enchiridion by EPICTETUS
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Dover Thrift Editions | Reading Level: very good
A first-century Stoic, Epictetus argued that we will always be happy if we learn to desire that things should be exactly as they are. His Enchiridion, or Manual, is a distillation of his teachings and an instructional manual for a tranquil life as it offers guidelines for those seeking contentment.
In Our Time: Stories by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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Category: Not a Book | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Hemingway made his North American literary debut in 1925 with In Our Time, his first collection of short stories and vignettes. Widely praised at the time for what later would be considered the author's hallmark style--uncomplicated, precise language with an eye for realism--the stories' themes of alien ...Show more
King James Bible Book of Psalms by King James Bible,Dover Thrift Editions
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
Beloved book of the Old Testament contains 150 hymns of praise, prayers of crisis and songs of faith. Reprinted complete and unabridged from the King James Version (1611) of the Bible. Among the best known and most quoted books of the Old Testament, the Book of Psalms contains some 150 hymns of praise, ...Show more
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Praised as "the most amazing story ever written," this 1885 story tells the tale in which Allan Quatermain, a gentleman adventurer, is hired to locate a man who has disappeared into the heart of Africa while hunting for the legendary lost diamond mines of King Solomon.
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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A new star-studded adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic Little Dorrit for BBC1 starts this November.The 15-part serial was adapted by highly acclaimed writer Andrew Davies, also responsible for the very successful Bleak House (2005) and Sense and Sensibility (2008). This is the official TV tie-in edit ...Show more
Magnificent Ambersons by TARKINGTON BOOTH
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the foun ...Show more
Notes from the Underground by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
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Category: Neuroscience | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A predecessor to such monumental works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From Underground represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky's writing towards the more political side. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who disillusioned by the oppression and co ...Show more
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
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The novel is presented as a translation (by "Jean Francois Alden") of memoirs by Louis de Conte, a fictionalized version of Louis de Contes, Joan of Arc's page. The novel is divided into three sections according to Joan of Arc's development: a youth in Domr
Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the Master of Life, descending, On the red crags of the quarryStood erect, and called the nations, Called the tribes of men together.From his footprints flowed a river, Leaped into the light of morning, O' ...Show more