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Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecia...

Plutarch Plutarch

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans - The Original Classic Edition

As well as being a great historian Plutarch was a philosopher who used the examples of good and infamous men alike to reinforce his conception of morality and what the best in a man can truly be. Unlike other classical historians, he doesnt just accept stories about individuals at face value but always mentions conflicting facts in the historical record. He often digresses in mid narrative, but never to the readers frustration, as it is always with an eye to the social practices and...

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Plutarch Plutarch

Relativity : the Special and Genera...

Einstein Albert

Relativity : the Special and General Theory - The Original Classic Edition

Do you want to learn about Modern Physics? Begin here! Relativity: The Special and the General Theory is a clear explanation that anyone Can Understand There is no doubt that Albert Einstein has been one of the most brilliant minds of the past century. His major contribution to science was the special and the general theory of relativity, which gave a new dimension to that we call today Modern Physics. Many people feel frustrated because when they try to...

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Einstein Albert

Manners, Customs, and Dress During...

Lacroix Paul

Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance - The Original Classic Edition

If you are a Renaissance Faire enthusiast, this is a must have book; page after page of accurate historical data from the early Middle Ages through the late Renaissance. Clothes, recipes, architecture, agriculture, economics, weapons and attitudes, its all here; Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the Renaissance Period. A wonderful work on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Period, this is a great reference book!

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Lacroix Paul

Plays by Chekhov, Second Series On...

Chekhov Anton

Plays by Chekhov, Second Series On the High Road, The Proposal, The Wedding, The Bear, A Tragedian In Spite of Himself, The Anniversary, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard - The Original Classic Edition

This translation, which incorporates the original vernacular seamlessly into a contemporary translation, is by FAR the finest translation of Chekhovs plays (especially *Uncle Vanya*) I have ever read, or am likely to. As a professor of dramatic literature, I will never again teach Chekhov without assigning my students this fine edition–may it long stay in print. Chekhov had his own unique style in that his plays were usually mere verbal interaction with most significant action...

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Chekhov Anton

The Confessions of St. Augustine -...

Augustine Saint

The Confessions of St. Augustine - The Original Classic Edition

The famed quote of Give me chastity and continence but not yet is one that is much used. It is great to read these lines within the intended framework of Augustines writing. This is a beautiful book. Augustines gradual turn toward God is glorious. This book beautifully illustrates the human ability for transformation and transcendence. Along with Meister Eckhart and Thomas Aquinas it gives one a good grasp of the early Christian and Catholic theory. As a cynic you could question...

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Augustine Saint

The Norwegian Fairy Book - The Orig...

Stroebe Clara

The Norwegian Fairy Book - The Original Classic Edition

These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, handed down by hinds and huntsmen, woodchoppers and fisherfolk, men who led a hard and lonely life amid primitive surroundings are, perhaps, among the most fascinating the Scandinavian countries have to offer. Nor are they only meant to delight the child, though this they cannot fail to do. ?Grown-ups? also, who take pleasure in a good story, well told, will enjoy the original ?Peer Gynt? legend, as it existed...

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Stroebe Clara

The Aesop for Children - The Origin...

Aesop Aesop

The Aesop for Children - The Original Classic Edition

The Fox and the Crow, The Fox and the Goat, The Fox and the Grapes and The Fox and the Cat. These are short stories that are fun and easy to read. Each story is summarized with a moral that you will have heard of. Your children will love the stories with a moral at the end. They will often relate the morals to heir own life and things they do. They will ask for many of the stories by name and will even tell you the stories in their abbreviated form. Youll be really glad you bought...

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Aesop Aesop

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant - T...

Grant Ulysses

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant - The Original Classic Edition

One of the Best Books Available on the Civil War : This book will keep you turning the pages from end to end. Despite its bulk you simply cant put the book down, as Grants matter-of-fact description of the events that surrounded him was completely engrossing. Grant was not an extraordinary man or brilliant tactician, his soldiers did not have the same obsession with him that the South held for Lee, he simply saw the war for what it was, a campaign against a rebellion. He looked at...

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Grant Ulysses

Adventures of Pinocchio - The Origi...

Collodi Carlo

Adventures of Pinocchio - The Original Classic Edition

Pinocchio is one of the most beloved and recognizable of all children stories characters. The story of Pinocchio, written by Carol Collodi and originally published in 1881, has been published, republished, retold, and adapted countless times over the last 130 years. However, most people today are probably primarily familiar with the adaptation (and the depiction) of Pinocchio from Disneys movie. It is nonetheless always instructive and worthwhile to go to the original story because most attempts...

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Collodi Carlo

Planet of the Damned - The Original...

Harrison Harry

Planet of the Damned - The Original Classic Edition

This was the first science fiction book I read as a kid (too many years ago than I care to count) and it stimulated my interest in the genre. Planet of the Damned is classic science fiction and a coming of age story. The hero, Brion, is a young man given his first opportunity to prove his worthiness by trying to save Dis, a horrible planet that seems hell bent on self destruction. Harrisons imagination fills the page with sweeping scenery. It is proof that epic science fiction does not need to...

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Harrison Harry

The History of Don Quixote, by Migu...

Cervantes Miguel

The History of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes - The Original Classic Edition

This book loses very little of its power, wit or message in translation. For all those who have considered reading this book, here are a few good reasons: this book is a very nuanced look at escapism and identity, a wonderful parody of knight stories, along with being a rousing (and very funny) adventure centering around the titular hero, a man who reads one too many books about knighthood and chivalry and decides to become a knight-errant himself. After recruiting a sidekick and...

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Cervantes Miguel

Heidi - The Original Classic Editio...

Spyri Johanna

Heidi - The Original Classic Edition

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this at age 65 as much or more than I did as a child. It is well written and superbly crafted for a reasonable price. Heidi embraces the sufferings of rejection and the rewards of genuine love.It shows that people do need each other and that we are all capable of forgiveness. I am told the story was built on real life experiences of a Swiss family. The description and characterization is excellent. At times you can smell the smell of the pine trees and...

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Spyri Johanna

Spirits in bondage; a cycle of lyri...

Lewis C

Spirits in bondage; a cycle of lyrics - The Original Classic Edition

Published a few months after the end of the Great War as part of the vogue for soldier poets, this verse cycle (a prologue and 40 poems) was C. S. Lewis first book. The poet was not yet 21, and his world view was dominated by two principles: rage-filled atheism (I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.) and romantic longing (in the words of the prologue, Sing about the Hidden Country...

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Lewis C

The Art of Public Speaking - The Or...

Esenwein Dale

The Art of Public Speaking - The Original Classic Edition

This dense classic (AoPS) unpacks public speaking topic by topic, providing previous speeches throughout to practice with. It approaches public speaking from the absolute best perspective: its not about you, its about THE MESSAGE! AoPS also has amazing introductory piece on being courageous. One major caveat to keep in mind: The style of public speaking has changed in the past +100 years. Gone are the days of three-hour booming oratories by Webster and...

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Esenwein Dale

Hamlet - The Original Classic Editi...

Shakespeare Shakespeare

Hamlet - 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: Hamlet; Let me see. [Takes the skull.] Alas, poor Yorick!?I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times;...

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Shakespeare Shakespeare

The Great Illusion - The Original C...

Angell Norman

The Great Illusion - The Original Classic Edition

The Great Illusion is a book by Norman Angell, first published in Britain in 1909 under the title Europes Optical Illusion. According to John Keegan Europe in the summer of 1914 enjoyed a peaceful productivity so dependent on international exchange and co-operation that a belief in the impossibility of a general war seemed the most conventional of wisdoms. In 1910 an analysis of prevailing economic interdependence, The Great Illusion, had become a best-seller; its author Norman...

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Angell Norman

Paradise Lost - The Original Classi...

Milton Niles John

Paradise Lost - The Original Classic Edition

Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse, written by the 17th-century poet John Milton as he became blind at the end of his life, is a retelling of the Biblical story of the Fall of Man. While based on the Christian tale, the poem incorporates many topics, and spends most of its verses detailing the journey of Satan and his war on the angels. The depiction of Adam and Eve draws an elaborate panorama of their trials. This classic of Western literature is wide-reaching and enormously...

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Milton Niles John

Russian Fairy Tales - The Original...

Ralston Balch William

Russian Fairy Tales - The Original Classic Edition

The stories contained in the following pages are taken from the collections published by Afanasief, Khudyakof, Erlenvein, and Chudinsky. I had misgivings when I started this book, as its as much more a book about fairy tales than a book OF fairy tales. But by the end I was totally won over, and am seriously considering reading more by W. S. Ralston. It is set up so that theres a tale followed by a brief (the authors word, not mine) discussion of the storys merits,...

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Ralston Balch William

Leviathan - The Original Classic Ed...

Hobbes Thomas

Leviathan - The Original Classic Edition

Titled after the biblical Leviathan, this book concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war – situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes (the war of all against all) – could only be averted by strong central government. ...

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Hobbes Thomas

What Will People Say? - The Origina...

Hughes Rupert

What Will People Say? - 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: Forbes noted, too, that the people she bowed to in other cars or on the sidewalk seemed to be important people, and yet to be proud when her hat gave a little wren-like nod in their...

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Hughes Rupert

Discipline - The Original Classic E...

Brunton Mary

Discipline - The Original Classic Edition

Mary Brunton started to write her first novel, Self-Control in 1809 and it was published in 1811. One admirer was Charlotte Barrett (1786?1870), niece of the novelists Fanny Burney and Sarah Burney and mother of the writer Julia Maitland. Writing to Sarah on 17 May 1811, she commented, I read Self-Control and like it extremely all except some vulgarity meant to be jocular which tired me to death, but I think the principal character charming and well supported and the book really gives good...

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Brunton Mary

The Worst Journey in the World - Th...

Garrard Apsley

The Worst Journey in the World - The Original Classic Edition

Robert Falcon Scotts scientific expedition to the South Pole in 1911 was like that famous medical cliché: the operation was a success, but the patient died. The Polar Party did reach the South Pole, but were 34 days late from being the FIRST party at the pole. The entire Polar Party died in a blizzard returning to home camp. Invaluable scientific, geographic, and biologic data were obtained, but the hideous Winter Journey to collect Emperor penguin embryos at terrible risk turned out to be...

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Garrard Apsley

The Mysterious Affair at Styles - T...

Christie Agatha

The Mysterious Affair at Styles - The Original Classic Edition

Almost too ingenious … very clearly and brightly told. Times Literary Supplement Deals with poisons in a knowledgeable way… Miss Agatha Christie knows her job. Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary, from the heiresss fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. Making his...

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Christie Agatha

Love And Freindship And Other Early...

Джейн Остин

Love And Freindship And Other Early Works - The Original Classic Edition

This is an early Jane Austen work, written when she was a teenager and unpublished during her lifetime. Its a good read for all Austen fans – you can see her experimenting with the ideas and techniques that she would later use to better effect. The book is a romance told in a series of letters, but mocks many of the conventions of romances. This is a great collection of the early writings of Jane Austen. As a writer I LOVED reading her rough ramblings. She played with plot lines and...

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Джейн Остин

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