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Symposium - The Original Classic Ed...

Plato Plato

Symposium - The Original Classic Edition

Fascinating ancient treatise on the nature of Love: in many pieces of ancient Roman and Greek literature you will come away greatly surprised at how these 2000 to 3000-year old cultures were so similar to ours in many ways. Well, Platos dialogue The Symposium both re-affirms and counters these past impressions. The Symposium investigates the nature of romantic Love. What is it? From where does it arise? What is the aim of Love? What does it accomplish? On the one hand,...

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Plato Plato

The Beasts of Tarzan - The Original...

Burroughs Edgar

The Beasts of Tarzan - The Original Classic Edition

The Beasts of Tarzan is an excellent adventure story and well worth the read. The Beasts of Tarzan is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. Originally serialized in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914, the novel was first published in book form by A. C. McClurg in 1916. Not long after Tarzan claims his hereditary title of Lord Greystoke and marries Jane, their infant son, Jack, is kidnapped in London by...

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Burroughs Edgar

The Metamorphoses of Ovid - The Ori...

Naso Publius

The Metamorphoses of Ovid - The Original Classic Edition

This edition has really come a long way. The text has been translated into a more modern voice, making it much more user friendly and fun to read. And its written in verse form (as is should be). The organization is top-notch: not only is it divided into books, but is further divided into the individual stories with appropriate headings (like Mars and Venus and Pyramus and Thisbe), so its easy to find your favorite myth and know where you are in the epic. Theres also an excellent...

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Naso Publius

Roughing It - The Original Classic...

Марк Твен

Roughing It - The Original Classic Edition

There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twains Roughing It is just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared. Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly speaks with forked tongue, Roughing It is informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to...

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Марк Твен

Oliver Twist - The Original Classic...

Dickens Charles

Oliver Twist - The Original Classic Edition

Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocents unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew features some of Dickens most memorable characters, including the vicious Bill Sikes, gentle Nancy, and the juvenile pickpocket known as the Artful Dodger. This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a freshly published edition of this culturally...

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Dickens Charles

Anne of Green Gables - The Original...

Montgomery L

Anne of Green Gables - The Original Classic Edition

When Marilla Cuthberts brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl. Its not long, though, before the Cuthberts cant imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables–but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne confesses to losing Marillas amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic,...

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Montgomery L

Plague Ship - The Original Classic...

Norton Andre

Plague Ship - The Original Classic Edition

Plague Ship contains the second Solar Queen adventure. Nortons four-book series about the trader-crew of the Solar Queen ended in 1969 with Postmarked the Stars This remarkable Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy and Nebula Grand Master just recently passed away after a long and extremely fruitful career (her first novel was published in 1934, her latest fantasy in 2005). Nortons Solar Queen stories are told from the viewpoint of Dane Thorson, an apprentice-Cargo Master who is introduced...

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Norton Andre

Father Goriot - The Original Classi...

Оноре Бальзак

Father Goriot - The Original Classic Edition

Getting involved in the works of Balzac is like entering a magnificently equipped library with an insatiable appetite for books. His output was prodigious: novels, short stories, and essays, but it is primarily the HUMAN COMEDY for which he is best known. The complexity that is that book had its origins much earlier in his novel FATHER GORIOT (PERE GORIOT). Balzac liked to move characters back and forth from book to book like chess pieces. In much of his fiction, he places his characters in...

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Оноре Бальзак

The Code of the Mountains - The Ori...

Buck Cho Charles

The Code of the Mountains - The Original Classic Edition

This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: These roads would in time give way to rougher trails, rock-strewn and licked by the little, whispering waters that make rivers, and he would travel by creek-bed ways over which...

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Buck Cho Charles

The Possessed (The Devils) - The Or...

Dostoyevsky Fyodor

The Possessed (The Devils) - The Original Classic Edition

Ive always felt that fiction is like a window to the past, and with The Devils, Dostoevsky gives us a clear glimpse at the underground politics brewing in Czarist Russia. At the same time, his propensity to write about criminals and people with criminal hearts is nowhere more emphasized among his major novels than in this one. There is not one character I could identify as a traditional hero, not even the semi-anonymous narrator, who relates the novels events with the impartiality of a security...

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Dostoyevsky Fyodor

At the Earth's Core - The Original...

Burroughs Edgar

At the Earth's Core - The Original Classic Edition

Having already created two highly memorable science fiction heroes in Tarzan and John Carter, Edgar Rice Burroughs begins his third major series with David Innes. With friend Abner Perry, they dive their mole, or burroughing machine, straight through the earths surface where they discover the savage land of Pellucidar. Here, where dinosaurs still exist and mankind is enslaved by the reptilian Mahars, David and his friend are forced to face unknown perils and survive in a hostile environment (and...

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Burroughs Edgar

A Short History of the World - The...

Wells H

A Short History of the World - The Original Classic Edition

Although best known for his scientific romances that paved the way for the modern science fiction genre, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) produced significant works on politics, society, science and history. Fascinated as much with the real world as his imaginary one, and displeased with the quality of history textbooks at the end of World War I, Wells took on the task of writing his own book of world history. In 1919 he published The Outline of History, which he soon followed with the much shorter and...

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Wells H

Metamorphosis - The Original Classi...

Kafka Franz

Metamorphosis - The Original Classic Edition

Kuper has adapted short works by Kafka into comics before, but here he tackles the most famous one of all: the jet-black comedy that ensues after the luckless Gregor Samsa turns into a gigantic bug. The story loses a bit in translation (and the typeset text looks awkward in the context of Kupers distinctly handmade drawings). A lot of the humor in the original comes from the way Kafka plays the storys absurdities absolutely deadpan, and the visuals oversell the joke, especially since Kuper draws...

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Kafka Franz

An English Grammar - The Original C...

Witt William

An English Grammar - The Original Classic Edition

So many slighting remarks have been made of late on the use of teaching grammar as compared with teaching science, that it is plain the fact has been lost sight of that grammar is itself a science. The object we have, or should have, in teaching science, is not to fill a childs mind with a vast number of facts that may or may not prove useful to him hereafter, but to draw out and exercise his powers of observation, and to show him how to make use of what he observes.... And here the...

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Witt William

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations - Th...

Cicero Marcus

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations - The Original Classic Edition

How many men and women who have lived more than 2,000 years ago have impressed us with their humanity? We tend to see the statuary, but rarely the person behind it. When you read this outstanding title, you see that Marcus Tullius Cicero has a human face – and it shows in his work. The Roman Republic that Cicero loved was falling apart. Marius and Sulla, the Gracchi, the conflicts over the powers of the tribunes had dealt a severe blow to a form of government that had proved itself...

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Cicero Marcus

The Wind in the Willows - The Origi...

Grahame Kenneth

The Wind in the Willows - The Original Classic Edition

Continues to stand the test of time…When I was very young (about six thousand years ago), our school master used to read to us from Wind in the Willows. The stories had a magical quality and, as a somewhat older person, I got to wondering whether they would still have that sense of enchantment that held us so captivated all those years ago. I was NOT disappointed. Toad was just as cantankerous and difficult as ever. Badger, Rat and Mole were just as supportive – just as memorable....

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Grahame Kenneth

Poems Published in 1820 - The Origi...

Keats John

Poems Published in 1820 - The Original Classic Edition

The miniscule and sickly John Keats may not have been long for this world but he is an immortal of English language poetry. The accesibility of Keatss great poems is the reason he continues to be read while those who dismissed him in his own day have been swept into the ashcan of literary history. Whats great about this book is that its complete, allowing the Keats enthusiast to travel through all of Keatss romantic attempts, ranging from great to mediocre to poetic fumbles… The...

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Keats John

Folk-Tales of the Khasis - The Orig...

U Rafy

Folk-Tales of the Khasis - The Original Classic Edition

This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: When the mouse saw that her beautiful friend had been transformed into the likeness of a hideous toad she was very sorrowful, and regretted having sent her to seek the protection...

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U Rafy

An Ideal Husband - The Original Cla...

Wilde Oscar

An Ideal Husband - The Original Classic Edition

Oscar Wilde gives us here one of his best plays. He explores the political world in London and how a young ambitious but poor man can commit a crime, which is a mistake, to start his good fortune. But he builds his political career on ethical principles. Sooner or later someone will come into the picture to blackmail him into supporting an unacceptable scheme, by producing a document that could ruin his career if revealed. His past mistake may come back heavily onto him. But he...

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Wilde Oscar

The Romance of Industry and Inventi...

Cochrane Robert

The Romance of Industry and Invention - The Original Classic Edition

Our national industries lie at the root of national progress. The first Napoleon taunted us with being a nation of shopkeepers; that, however, is now less true than that we are a nation of manufacturers?coal, iron, and steel, and our textile industries, taken along with our enormous carrying-trade, forming the backbone of the wealth of the country. A romantic interest belongs to the rise and progress of most of our industries. Very often this lies in the career of the inventor, who...

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Cochrane Robert

The Analysis of Mind - The Original...

Russell Bertrand

The Analysis of Mind - The Original Classic Edition

Formally this book doesnt contain groundbreaking insights, or better: it doesnt say anything that isnt already under your eyes. Its biggest accomplishment, however, is in the very act of showing how sometimes we dont see whats under our eyes for a sort of mental laziness. Russell forces us to move away from this laziness and reconsider what we take for granted about ourselves, and does so with his enjoyable style. He seems to possess the rare skill of finding the minimum amount of...

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Russell Bertrand

The Animal Story Book - The Origina...

Lang Andrew

The Animal Story Book - The Original Classic Edition

From the noted Scottish author and scholar: 66 tales about creatures of land, sea, and air. Adapted from stories originally told by Alexandre Dumas, Théophile Gautier, Pliny, and others, they include The Adventures of Pyramus, Two Highland Dogs, The Ship of the Desert, The Otter Who was Reared by a Cat, and many more. This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last,...

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Lang Andrew

Kidnapped - The Original Classic Ed...

Stevenson Robert

Kidnapped - The Original Classic Edition

Classic historical fiction by R.L. Stevenson Originally written as a boys adventure novel, modern readers will probably consider it more a book for adults. The plot is fairly straightforward: Our Hero, David Balfour, is tricked out of his rightful inheritance by an evil uncle, shanghaied, shipwrecked, partnered with a historical figure (one Alan Breck Stewart) and caught up in the events of an unsolved historical mystery (the Appin Murder). The body of the novel is a...

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Stevenson Robert

The Jungle - The Original Classic E...

Sinclair Upton

The Jungle - The Original Classic Edition

Originally published in 1906 by Upton Sinclair, THE JUNGLE sent shockwaves throughout the United States that resulted in cries for labor and agricultural reforms. It is indeed rare that a book should have such a political impact, but although Sinclair may have been surprised at the results, it is apparent while reading this novel that his words form a political agenda of its own. It should be noted that Sinclair was a devout Socialist who traveled to Chicago to document the working conditions of...

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Sinclair Upton

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