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Meno by Plato; Benjamin Jowett
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
What is virtue? Can it be learned or is it innate? Is it possible to know things a priori (before experience)? In this important and influential Socratic dialogue, Plato addresses a wealth of philosophy's fundamental questions, including the difference between actually knowing something and merely maint ...Show more
Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
William Faulkner's inspiration for his second novel, Mosquitoes (1927), was his involvement in the 1920s New Orleans creative community. Mosquitoes explores the themes of sexuality and the societal role of the artist as it follows a bohemian cast of characters on a four-day cruise aboard the yacht Nausi ...Show more
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Mrs. Dalloway is Virginia Woolf's best known novel. This landmark novel is a masterpiece. While the book seems to take place in a single day in the life of the eponymous Mrs. Dalloway, it is much more. Mrs. Dalloway is preparing for a dinner party to be held that evening. As she goes about her day, her ...Show more
My Life on the Plains - Or, Personal Experiences with Indians by George Armstrong Custer
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An officer and cavalry commander during the Civil War and Indian wars, General George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) was well-known in his lifetime for his personal daring and his aggressive approach to warfare. After his "last stand" in 1876, he was even more famous as the commander who led his entire unit ...Show more
New Hampshire by Robert Frost
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Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) was the most celebrated poet in America for most of the twentieth century. Although chiefly associated with the life and landscapes of New England, his work embodies penetrating and often dark explorations of universal themes. Frost received more than 40 honorary degrees, and th ...Show more
No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens; Wilkie Collins
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A distraught mother is forced to abandon her baby to a foundling hospital and begs to know the name that the authorities have given her child. She's told that his name is Walter Wilding, and upon her returns a dozen years later, it's Walter Wilding she adopts. Young Walter becomes a successful wine merc ...Show more
Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not) by José Rizal; León Ma. Guerrero (Translator)
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A scorching expose of the Spanish government's corruption and abuses of power, this novel is famed as a catalyst to the Philippine Revolution. Noli Me Tangere was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism written from the point of view of the oppressed. Its passi ...Show more
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
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Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And t ...Show more
Off on a Comet! by Jules Verne
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Nearly a century before space travel captured the imaginations of science-fiction writers and readers, Jules Verne envisioned an incident in which a comet impact in the vicinity of Gibraltar sends a piece of the Earth on a two-year trip around the solar system. Thirty-six unsuspecting individuals of var ...Show more
Ole Miss Juvenilia by William Faulkner
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Faulkner's prolific publication history began at the age of 16 with poems and sketches for the Ole Miss campus newspaper, The Mississippian. The author continued to contribute to the publication throughout his student days at the university as well as after dropping out. These early works of poetry and ...Show more
Pensées by Blaise Pascal
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"I know of no religious writer more pertinent to our time." -- T. S. Eliot, Introduction to Pens es"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true," declared Pascal in his Pens es. "The cure for this," he explained, "is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy ...Show more
Pragmatism by William James
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Pragmatism A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James Excerpt onalism' used as synonyms of 'rationalism' and 'empiricism.' Well, nature seems to combine most frequently with intellectualism an idealistic and optimistic tendency. Empiricists on the other hand are not uncommonly materialist ...Show more