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Gulliver's Travels - The Original C...

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels - The Original Classic Edition

Gullivers Travels is an adventure story (in reality, a misadventure story) involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ships surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies, but who, after each adventure, is somehow able to return to his home in England where he recovers from these unusual experiences and then sets out again on a new voyage.

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Jonathan Swift

Flatland: a romance of many dimensi...

Abbott Edwin

Flatland: a romance of many dimensions - The Original Classic Edition

Flatland is a unique and brilliant treatise on a trifurcated level. It is a sociological statement, a mathematical statement and a religious statement all rolled into an incredibly astute number of pages. The book centers mostly on the differences between a two dimensional world and a three dimensional world; but comments on society, law, prejudice, religion, and proselytizing. The book especially points out the difficulty in envisioning a greater reality and a greater vision than is...

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Abbott Edwin

Just So Stories - The Original Clas...

Редьярд Киплинг

Just So Stories - The Original Classic Edition

Kiplings JUST SO STORIES certainly rank in English-speaking childrens literature right along with A. A. Milnes WINNIE THE POOH and Kenneth Grahames WIND IN THE WILLOWS. They are fun to read to children 4-8, and even MORE fun for them to read for themselves at ages 7-11 (theyre marvelous vocabulary builders –the mariner of infinite resource and sagacity). My English-raised mother heard the stories when they were new and read them to me when I was a child, I read them to my own children, they read...

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Редьярд Киплинг

The Return of Tarzan - The Original...

Burroughs Edgar

The Return of Tarzan - The Original Classic Edition

The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs is the second volume in the Tarzan series. First published in 1913, this book is a work of genius. There is something about Burroughs writing that is captivating, and this book is no exception. The Return of Tarzan is a highly entertaining volume. The book first starts with Tarzan on a ship going from New York to France. On this trip, he makes friends with a Countess and makes an enemy with her brother, a Russian. The Russian will attempt...

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Burroughs Edgar

The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume...

Freneau Philip

The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II - The Original Classic Edition

Philip Morin Freneau (January 2, 1752 ? December 18, 1832) (spelled Phillip Frenau in Oxfords Poetry of Slavery Anthology 2003) was a notable American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor sometimes called the Poet of the American Revolution. The non-political works of Freneau are a combination of neoclassicism and romanticism. His poem The House of Night makes its mark as one of the first romantic poems written and published in America. The gothic elements...

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Freneau Philip

The Descent Of Man And Selection In...

Darwin Charles

The Descent Of Man And Selection In Relation To Sex - The Original Classic Edition

This is an excellent edition of a classic work. All who have any interest in the history of Darwinian evolution and particularly the historical views of the evolution of man will find this fascinating reading, particularly if the context can be juxtaposed with what has been discovered since Darwins time. Of course, times have changed, our hopefully less euro-centric views have been altered and there has been considerable progress through the generations since the original publication by Darwin,...

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Darwin Charles

The Poetical Works of William Words...

Wordsworth William

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ? Volume 3 - The Original Classic Edition

Wordsworth is a beloved writer of many. They love his passionate and direct descriptions of Nature, his reflective calm, his deep moral sense, his simplicity and beauty of language. They love the thoughtfulness of his poetry, and its music. His lines are memorable lines and they evoke sensations sweet felt in the heart. He is a poet who brings with him a sense of both the sublime and the simple combined. There are of course many non- memorable lines and many poems which...

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Wordsworth William

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - The...

Bennett Arnold

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - The Original Classic Edition

Time, our most precious commodity, is yours to cherish – It is hard to imagine that this little book could be so persuasive. I consider it a classic, and an early precusor to many others that have attempted to demonstrate how time is our own and ours to manage and expand our boundaries of our selves. In the thirty minutes it takes to read, you will be left forever vigilant, and will never sit idle, unless you consciously choose to sit idle, while you ride a train, wait for plane, or drive home...

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Bennett Arnold

Macbeth - The Original Classic Edit...

Shakespeare William

Macbeth - The Original Classic Edition

Macbeth comes out as one of William Shakespeares darkest and murkiest plays, most likely as a result of being written during one of Shakespeares darkest times in his own life. This play strays away from the more common Shakespearean formula that contains a hero and his demise resulting from a specific tragic flaw. In MacBeth, the title character is not a hero, but rather a villian. MacBeth murders the king of Scotland to bring truth to a prophecy given to him by three witches (the...

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Shakespeare William

The Great English Short-Story Write...

Brown John

The Great English Short-Story Writers - The Original Classic Edition

This is the best collection of the best stories ever written in America. It covers 200 years of fiction including undeniable classics. Everyone, no matter his or her taste, will find these stories to be among the best they have ever read. Finally, the reader may discover within this volume the doorway to a writer, new to him or her, whose work becomes a lifelong passion. Contents: The Evolution Of The Short-Story The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal. By Daniel...

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Brown John

Divine Comedy - The Original Classi...

Данте Алигьери

Divine Comedy - The Original Classic Edition

As many may know, Dante Alighieri was a man of great literary prowess, but was given drive by his single obsession to a small girl by the name of Beatrice. She rings true in this work, as the guiding angel, bringing Dante through the depths of hell, the wasteland of Purgatory, and finally, the glory of heaven. His has been one of the most enduring works on the human spirit, and the concept of god as seen through Christianity. Full of pun and metaphor, this is rich in language, and...

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Данте Алигьери

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - The...

Vatsyayana Vatsyayana

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - 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: Thus the work being written in parts by different authors was almost unobtainable, and as the parts which were expounded by Dattaka and the others treated only of the particular...

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Vatsyayana Vatsyayana

Youth - The Original Classic Editio...

Asimov Isaac

Youth - The Original Classic Edition

Youth is an early Asimov story written in 1952. It is a short story, lots of fun with a surprising twist at the end. Safe for kids to read too. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialists son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to turn the animals into a circus act. The astronomer, meanwhile, tells the industrialist...

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Asimov Isaac

Tales of the Jazz Age - The Origina...

Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд

Tales of the Jazz Age - The Original Classic Edition

Satirizing the selfishness of the wealthy – Tales Of The Jazz Age is an anthology of classic short stories by the renowned 20th Century American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is best known for his enduring classic The Great Gatsby. Satirizing the selfishness of the wealthy, depicting revelry that escalates into a destructive mob, while offering a sharp look at the flaws of society, and enhanced with introductions to each story by the author, Tales Of The Jazz Age is highly...

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Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд

Doctrina Christiana - The Original...

Wolf Edwin

Doctrina Christiana - The Original Classic Edition

The first book printed in the Philippines has been the object of a hunt which has extended from Manila to Berlin, and from Italy to Chile, for four hundred and fifty years. The patient research of scholars, the scraps of evidence found in books and archives, the amazingly accurate hypotheses of bibliographers who have sifted the material so painstakingly gathered together, combine to make its history a bookish detective story par excellence.

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Wolf Edwin

An Essay on Man - The Original Clas...

Pope Alexander

An Essay on Man - The Original Classic Edition

Popes defining masterwork, Essay on Man is a crystalization of the 18th Centurys defining impulses. The Essay on Man proselytizes on behalf of the deistic belief in an ordered, rational universe where humankind is no divine favorite but can understand its place on the Great Chain of Being and find happiness through knowledge and acceptance. Most will join with Voltaire in his hearty rejection of the doctrine Whatever is, is right, yet it is impossible to deny the ennobling quality of Popes...

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Pope Alexander

Curiosities Of History: Boston 1630...

Wheildon William

Curiosities Of History: Boston 1630-1880 - The Original Classic Edition

The history of Boston plays a central role in the American history. In 1630, Puritan colonists from England founded the city, which quickly became the political, commercial, financial, religious, and educational center of the New England region. The American Revolution erupted in Boston, as the British retaliated harshly for the Boston Tea Party and the patriots fought back. They besieged the British in the city, with a famous battle at Bunker Hill and won the Siege of Boston, forcing the...

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Wheildon William

Right Ho, Jeeves - The Original Cla...

Пелам Гренвилл Вудхаус

Right Ho, Jeeves - The Original Classic Edition

A highly comic romp with the English gentry, you know, those fellows of Eton, living in Manors (and having impeccable ones,I am told), with little to do but receive social approval for whatever they do; all with the quietly dignified, prescient aid of their butler. Pleasant enough, but P.G. Wodehouse masterfully parodies the upper crust and their sometimes foolish pretences as he skewers one Bertram Bertie Wooster (A lesser man, caught in this awful snare, would no doubt have ceased to struggle;...

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Пелам Гренвилл Вудхаус

Madame Bovary - The Original Classi...

Flaubert Gustave

Madame Bovary - The Original Classic Edition

For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and arousing novel. Madame Bovary is the greatest novel written by Gustave Flaubert. The 1855 masterpiece portrays in searing detail the...

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Flaubert Gustave

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army - T...

Edmonds S

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army - The Original Classic Edition

I found this book exciting and very interesting, the author certainly was a brave lady who played a significant part in the Civil War (masquerading as a man). It is an exciting read, and a good historical account of battles during the Civil War. A beautifully written and heartbreaking account of Emma Edmonds experiences during the first two years of the Civil War. I was surprised. She refrains from name calling her enemies, and even when she complains about someones...

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Edmonds S

Twenty Years After - The Original C...

Dumas d.Ä. Alexandre

Twenty Years After - The Original Classic Edition

It is twenty years after the first Musketeers saga and Athos, Aramis, Porthos and dArtagnan have all gone their separate ways. Midlife has mellowed the musketeers and definitely complicated their perceptions. Porthos has been indulging himself with his widows money and working himself up the caste ladder but is still not entirely accepted but the upper crust he wants to become. Aramis has gone into the church and, although he dreams wistfully of the days that he was a musketeer, his scheming has...

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Dumas d.Ä. Alexandre

My Antonia - The Original Classic E...

Cather Willa

My Antonia - The Original Classic Edition

When Willa Cather was writing My Antonia, she visited her friend, the journalist and war correspondent Elizabeth Sergeant, grabbed an old apothecary jar filled with flowers, set it in the center of an antique table, and explained: I want my new heroine to be like this–like a rare object in the middle of a table, which one may examine from all sides. . . . I want her to stand out–like this–like this–because she is the story. This anecdote (recounted in James Woodresss biography of...

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Cather Willa

The Sea-Wolf - The Original Classic...

London Jack

The Sea-Wolf - The Original Classic Edition

Its the tale of a rather bookish gentleman who is virtually press-ganged to work on a sailing ship. Through vicious hardship he is faced with the choice of survival (and in the process compromising his morality) or almost certain death. The main villain, if you will, is the Captain of the ship, whos physical strength and presence is overwhelming. When I first dipped into THE SEA WOLF, I was struck by its similarity to CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS. Humphrey van Weydons ferry-steamer, The...

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London Jack

Candide - The Original Classic Edit...

Voltaire Voltaire

Candide - The Original Classic Edition

Candide, ou lOptimisme is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: or, Optimism (1947). It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply Optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes...

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Voltaire Voltaire

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