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The Prince - The Original Classic E...

Nicolo Machiavelli

The Prince - The Original Classic Edition

The Prince examines the acquisition, perpetuation, and use of political power in the western world. Machiavelli wrote The Prince to prove his proficiency in the art of the state, offering advice on how a prince might gain and keep power. Machiavelli justified rule by force rather than by law. Accordingly, The Prince seems to justify a number of actions done solely to perpetuate power. It is a classic study of power-its acquisition, expansion, and effective use.

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Nicolo Machiavelli

Beowulf - The Original Classic Edit...

Lesslie Hall

Beowulf - The Original Classic Edition

A faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right. ?New York Times Book Review The national bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero?s triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed in the...

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Lesslie Hall

Middlemarch - The Original Classic...

ELIOT GEORGE

Middlemarch - The Original Classic Edition

This book was on a booklist of the 100 best books written, and once read, you will have to agree. It will take a while to get into it because theres a great deal of expository writing at the beginning, but stick with it and youll be introduced to some fascinating characters in the town of Middlemarch. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman about to take a much older husband, determined to find purpose in her life by assisting him with his lifes work, a book which is to a definitive guide...

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ELIOT GEORGE

Kim - The Original Classic Edition

Редьярд Киплинг

Kim - The Original Classic Edition

A Best Kept Secret of literature: this is a canonical work that should be read by every school child as a superior example of English literature and the epitomy of the written Enlish language. Kim is a wonderful story of an orphan in India (the part that is now Pakistan) in the late 1800s. Kim is the son of an Irish soldier raised by locals, familiar with the customs and languages of the Hindus and Muslims of the area who gets recruited by the British to spy for them. Kim acts as a...

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Редьярд Киплинг

The Idiot - The Original Classic Ed...

Dostoyevsky Fyodor

The Idiot - The Original Classic Edition

You will be fully engrossed day after day in a world of ideas, people and places once you open this book. Its ideas are many: atheism vs. Christianity; nihilism vs. a dying social order; Eros vs. charity; truth vs. artifice; id vs.ego and superego. It will captivate you. The characters in this novel, though usually explained as symbolic of the ideas they represent, are yet the most vividly realized characters you will ever read. The real-time manner in which they are drawn and...

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Dostoyevsky Fyodor

Thuvia, Maid of Mars - The Original...

Burroughs Edgar

Thuvia, Maid of Mars - The Original Classic Edition

Thuvia, Maid of Mars is the 4th of 11 John Carter novels from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. It first appeared in April 1916, as a three-part serial in the magazine All Story Weekly. This is the first Carter novel that does not feature John Carter himself as the central character; he only makes a brief cameo appearance early on. Instead, the action mantle is taken up by Carthoris, Carters son, but fortunately, Carter Junior turns out to be just as good a swashbuckler as the old man. ...

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Burroughs Edgar

On Liberty - The Original Classic E...

Mill John

On Liberty - The Original Classic Edition

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was interested in the nature of Civil Liberty, and the limits to the power that a Government can legitimately exercise upon its citizens. He believed that some worrying tendencies could be observed in the England society of his time, and tried to warn others about them. The author basically explains his ideas regarding the preservation of individual liberties, not only due to the fact that they are rights owed to everyone, but also because they benefit...

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Mill John

Greenmantle - The Original Classic...

Buchan John

Greenmantle - The Original Classic Edition

Greenmantle, by John Buchan, is actually based on a remarkable, if little-known, aspect of German propaganda during World War I. It involved Kaiser Wilhelm declaring himself a convert to Islam, a leader of jihad, as a tactic for winning the support of the Muslim territories under British control and thus fomenting an anti-British revolution. Richard Hannay, Buchans intrepid hero from The Thirty-Nine Steps, is the man entrusted to stop this plan from being carried out, and his...

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Buchan John

The Personal Touch - The Original C...

Chapman J

The Personal Touch - 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: Preaching is not enough, it is sometimes too general; the impressions of a song may soon be effaced, but the personal touch, the tear in the eye, the pathos in the voice, the...

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Chapman J

The First Men in the Moon - The Ori...

Wells H

The First Men in the Moon - The Original Classic Edition

The First Men in the Moon, one of H.G.s enduring classics, is a must read for all fans of classic sci-fi. Its a quick read so it makes a good travel book.It is an excellent starter story for younger readers, whereas War of the Worlds might be a little scary. You will find that the book is quite good in its own right and makes for an engaging and gripping read. Even though the Moon does not hold the same fascination in our mind as to this day Mars does, and many of the scientific ideas...

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Wells H

King Lear - The Original Classic Ed...

Shakespeare William

King Lear - The Original Classic Edition

Shakespeare at his best – King Lear was written at Shakespeares most prolific period, a time in which he rapidly composed Hamlest, Othello, and Macbeth. I believe, without a moments hesitation, that King Lear is his greatest work, and probably the greatest play ever written. The plot moves quickly with excitement and action. The central themes of the play (among which are abandonment, unconditional love, and self-realization) are some of the most serious and important aspects of...

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Shakespeare William

The Girl Crusoes - The Original Cla...

Strang Mrs

The Girl Crusoes - 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: In fact, after her fathers death, when Elizabeth had found that his assets were really nil, owing to a succession of bad crops and the cattle-disease spreading so rapidly among the...

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Strang Mrs

Life of the Bee - The Original Clas...

Морис Метерлинк

Life of the Bee - The Original Classic Edition

In The Life of the Bee, Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck offers brilliant proof that no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved. From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Maeterlinck takes a bees-eye view of the most orderly society on Earth. A classic bee book written in a lively and readable style, The Life of the Bee is reasonably accurate (for a book of its...

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Морис Метерлинк

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria - Th...

MacKenzie MacKinnon Donald

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria - The Original Classic Edition

This book contains the history and commentaries necessary to understand the evolution of the Judaic/Christian religion. It also has keys to understanding metaphysics of the ancients that are relative to the modern world. In other words, it contains information that is hard to find – a rare book indeed – and, in general, a great book for historians. This is a great book published in 1915 and written so well that it could have been written today. Mackenzie does a great job in...

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MacKenzie MacKinnon Donald

Howards End - The Original Classic...

Forster E

Howards End - The Original Classic Edition

I have read Howards End two or three times and listened to it once on tape and it remains one of my favorite novels. Many people were introduced to it by the film, which, good though it was, does not begin to capture the subtle wisdom Forster put into this book. Howards End can be seen as a quaint period piece about British culture in the early Twentieth Century. On another level, however, its a brilliant exploration of the human soul. In the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes, Forster has...

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Forster E

Human, All Too Human - The Original...

Nietzsche Friedrich

Human, All Too Human - The Original Classic Edition

Nietzsche is often said to have entered a new period with the publication of Human All Too Human and the book is considerably more positivistic than his earlier writings. It aims at debunking unwarranted assumptions more than at defending a grand interpretation of its own, and it marks the high point of Nietzsches interest in, and applause for, natural science. Nietzsche describes what he means by free spirits in the preface to the second edition of Human All Too Human. Free spirits...

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Nietzsche Friedrich

Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard -...

Conrad Joseph

Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard - The Original Classic Edition

Conrad is my favorite 20th century author, so I am biased. Compare him to Tolstoy and you are on the money. Both lived lives that gave them fodder for their fiction; Tolstoy as a soldier in the Crimean war, an aristocrat facing the turbulence of the political and social upheavals of fin-de-siecle Russia, and Conrad as a mariner and a Polish transplant who carved out a language and a career for himself in England. Nostromo contains some of the most vividly realized characterization,...

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Conrad Joseph

Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Ga...

Gross Alexander

Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler - 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: His son says of him: My poor father had gotten to be a confirmed drunkard before I was born, and after he had settled at Shippingsport, my mother would not let him stay about the...

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Gross Alexander

The Arabian Nights - The Original C...

Lang Andrew

The Arabian Nights - The Original Classic Edition

The Arabian Nights is a great collection of exotic fantasy stories. There are some magical elements to the stories that make it seem like youre in another place completely while reading it. You will like that. Youll enjoy stories where you can feel like you are getting away or exploring a new place. Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves is a favorite story in the book, right next to how cool it is to see the original Aladdin story too. The tales in The Arabian Nights have been told for...

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Lang Andrew

The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Wh...

Padraic Colum

The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles - 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: ?But if he will have built for me a ship that can make the voyage to far Colchis, and if he will send throughout all Greece the word of my adventuring so that all the heroes who...

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Padraic Colum

Teutonic Mythology - The Original C...

Viktor Rydberg

Teutonic Mythology - 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: And when the startling discovery was made that the sacred books of the Iranians and Hindoos were written in languages related to the culture languages of Europe, when these...

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Viktor Rydberg

New Royal Cook Book - The Original...

company New

New Royal Cook Book - The Original Classic Edition

The new Royal Cook Book has been prepared to meet the large and ever increasing demand for a guide to wholesome and palatable home cooking. The young housewife will find here complete simple directions for making delicious cakes and other culinary delights. Experienced cooks and those more skilled in the art will find here many of their favorite recipes and in addition helpful suggestions, especially in the matter of saving eggs and other expensive materials. Every recipe...

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company New

Of The Nature of Things - The Origi...

Carus Titus

Of The Nature of Things - The Original Classic Edition

On the Nature of Things is the only surviving work of the Roman philosopher Lucretius, born in 99 BC. In On the Nature of Things, Lucretius sought to liberate his fellow Romans from their fear of the gods, and their fear of death. Lucretius argued that the gods are not directly involved in life, and therefore there is no need to appease them; he also argued that death is the end of a human beings body and soul, and therefore there is no point in fearing it. An unforgettable...

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Carus Titus

The Iron Heel - The Original Classi...

London Jack

The Iron Heel - The Original Classic Edition

In 1905 the troops of the Tsar crushed the Russian revolution of 1905. Although the uprising did force Nicholas II to establish a constitution and a parliament, the Russian revolution of 1917 would change the face of the world. However, the uprising also had the interesting effect of inspiring two of the more interesting utopian novels of the early 20th century. One was Red Star, the socialist utopia on Mars created by the Russian writer Alexander Bogdanov, a Bolshevik and intimate of Lenin. The...

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London Jack

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