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Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments

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"TheArabian Nights is more generally loved than Shakespeare," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. «No human face or voice greets us among [this] crowd of kings and genies, sorcerers and beggar men. Adventure on the most naked terms, furnishes forth the entertainment and is found enough.»The best-known versions of these ancient Middle Eastern tales are those translated by the Victorian English explorer and writer, Richard F. Burton. Arabic in origin, they are also known as A Thousand and One...

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The Necklace and Other Short Storie...

Guy de Maupassant

The Necklace and Other Short Stories

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The French author Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of the short story, creating detailed character studies and brief but moving dramas well suited to the genre.The nine stories in this collection provide a vivid portrait gallery of his typical subjects — from simple peasants and prostitutes to soldiers, government clerks, and provincial bourgeois. Brilliantly naturalistic, these short works also reveal Maupassant's ability to observe the innumerable details of everyday...

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100 Great American Short Stories

100 Great American Short Stories

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This celebration of America's literary legacy, a companion volume to Dover's 100 Great Short Stories, offers students and other readers a superb selection of short fiction by master storytellers. Contributors include Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Washington Irving, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, and many others. The stories are arranged alphabetically by author. Selections from American literature of the nineteenth century include...

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Great Stories from the German Roman...

Ludwig Tieck

Great Stories from the German Romantics

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This outstanding compilation presents stories by two of the writers who helped launch the early nineteenth-century German Romanticism movement: Ludwig Tieck and Jean Paul Richter. Translated by the great British historian Thomas Carlyle, it features seven highly influential tales that range in mood from fantasy and fairy tale lightness to witty satire. Shemlzie's Journey to Fletz and Life of Quintus Fixlien, a story and a novella by Richter, the least translated of the major German...

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Ludwig Tieck

Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen

Ghosts

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"Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen (translated by William Archer). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...

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Henrik Ibsen

Bhagavadgita

Bhagavadgita

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The Bhagavadgita is part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, and it is one of the major religious documents of the world, occupying in Hinduism a position not unlike the Sermon on the Mount in Christianity. One of the most celebrated treasures of world literature as well, it is in the form of a poetic dialogue between the epic's hero, Arjuna, and his friend Krishna, believed to be an incarnation of God.The dialogue, which takes place on the eve of an historic battle, probes the nature...

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Three Great Plays

Eugene O'Neill

Three Great Plays

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and four Pulitzer prizes, Eugene O'Neill is generally acknowledged as America's greatest playwright. This volume includes three of the writer’s early, influential works:The Emperor Jones presents a forceful powerful psychological portrayal of brute power, fear, and madness as it traces events in the life of the self-proclaimed ruler of a West Indian island, who attempts to flee both his angry countrymen and personal demons.The Hairy...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

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Imagine a plague so horrific, only forty percent of the population lived to tell the tale. Written as a first-person account of the world’s most dangerous pandemic, the mysterious narrator bears witness to a society that has seemingly given up hope during terrifying times. . From mounting death tolls, to horrific bodily ailments, contracting the Black Plague was considered a fate worse than death. Combining his own experiences within each of the two stories, the enigmatic narrator, known only...

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A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

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From the master of satire, Jonathan Swift, comes a collection of his classic satirical works. «A Modest Proposal and Other Satires» includes the following works: A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against the Abolishment of Christianity, A Modest Proposal, A True and Faithful Narrative, A Meditation Upon a Broomstick, Predictions for the Year 1708, and The Accomplishment of the First Year of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions.

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woma...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woma...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

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A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

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A Week On The Concord And Merrimack...

A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers

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A Week On The Concord And Merrimack...

A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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A Shropshire Lad

Alfred Edward Housman

A Shropshire Lad

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A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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A Shropshire Lad

A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad

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A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Agnes Grey

Agnes Grey

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Agnes Grey

Agnes Grey

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