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Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
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Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible hum ...Show more
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes - And Other Travel Writings by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: General | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Temperament and poor health motivated Robert Louis Stevenson to travel widely throughout his short life, and before he was celebrated as the author of Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses, and other immortal works, he was known for his travelogues. This collection presents some of his finest wri ...Show more
Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
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`Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain words: the old truth is coming to an end...'Nietzsche ...Show more
Two Classic Utopias by Francis Bacon; Tomasso Campanella; Gregory Claeys (Foreword by)
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In keeping with the inquisitive spirit of their times, two 17th-century writers envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Tomasso Campanella, a Calabrian monk, published The City of the Sun in 1623, and Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis appeared in 1627. Campanella was a student of log ...Show more
Typee - A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville
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In this classic of travel and adventure literature, Herman Melville drew upon his adventures in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands as a prisoner of the Typee people. Like the novel's narrator, Melville jumped ship from a whaling vessel and was held in benign captivity by an indigenous tribe with a repu ...Show more
Under Green Leaves by Richard Henry Stoddard
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This treasury of verse rejoices in the pleasures of the countryside and the beauty of the outdoors. Originally published in the mid-19th century, Under Green Leaves offers a wealth of poetry inspired by nature, from lyrics by English dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and F ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Gregory Zilboorg (Translator)
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A collectible hardcover centennial edition of the exhilarating Russian dystopian novel of totalitarian mass surveillance that inspired George Orwell's 1984, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen A Penguin Vitae Edition In a glass-enclosed city of abs ...Show more
What Maisie Knew by HENRY JAMES
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What Maisie Knew by Henry James, the paper was thrust away in her pocket and there clenched in her fist. The supreme hour was to furnish her with a vivid reminiscence, that of a strange outbreak in the drawing- room on the part of Moddle, who, in reply to something her father had just said, cried aloud: ...Show more
White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett (Translator)
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Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Wives and Daughters An Every-day Story by Elizabeth Gaskell Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries, a new step-sister enters Molly's quiet life - loveable, but world ...Show more
Zadig and Other Stories by Voltaire
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Best known as the author of the satirical novel Candide, Voltaire also wrote other highly regarded works of philosophical fiction. With the title tale of this original collection of short stories, the author addresses the social and political problems of his own day in an ancient Babylonian setting. Fi ...Show more