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Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Immanuel Kant's groundbreaking work, considered one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy, exploring the limits of human knowledge and understanding of metaphysics. Kant responds to the notions of the empiricists (such as John Locke and David Hume) and the rationalists (such as Gott ...Show more
Faust Parts 1 & 2 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Hailed as Germany's greatest contribution to world literature, Goethe's Faust drew upon a folktale and Marlowe's Dr. Faustus for inspiration. But in this epic version, Faust sells his soul not for magic powers but for a heightened sense of existence. Part One covers his pact with Mephistopheles and sedu ...Show more
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next Join the Baltimore Gun Club as it embarks on the most ambitious endeavor in all of human history -- the construction of a cannon capable of delivering a projectile containing human payload to the Moon With the help of the preemi ...Show more
Germinal by Emile Zola; Havelock Ellis (Translator)
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Etienne Lantier est un jeune machiniste qui vient de perdre son travail, parce qu'il a giflé son chef sous l'emprise de l'alcool. Il cherche un travail dans les mines de Montsou. Il y rencontre Maheu et Maheude et leurs enfants parmi lesquels Catherine, dont il tombe amoureux. Très apprécié à la mine, i ...Show more
Great Stories from the German Romantics - Ludwig Tieck and Jean Paul Richter by Ludwig Tieck; Jean Paul Richter
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This outstanding compilation presents stories by two of the writers who helped launch the early nineteenth-century German Romanticism movement: Ludwig Tieck and Jean Paul Richter. Translated by the great British historian Thomas Carlyle, it features seven highly influential tales that range in mood from ...Show more
Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
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"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
In Our Time: Stories by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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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
Lady Susan, Sanditon and the Watsons by Jane Austen
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This volume presents three of Jane Austen's smaller works, treating readers to the author's timeless observations on life and love in nineteenth-century England. In Lady Susan, a beautiful and flirtatious widow seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself while attempting to push her daughter into ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke; Reginald Snell (Commentaries by)
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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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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
Maggie: a Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
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In 1892 Stephen Crane (1871-1900) published Maggie, Girl of the Streets at his own expense. Considered at the time to be immature, it was a failure. Since that time it has come to be considered one of the earliest American realistic novels. Maggie is the story of a pretty child of the Bowery which is wr ...Show more