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Lady with the Dog and Other Love Stories by ANTON CHEKHOV
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories Ser.
A master playwright and short story writer, Anton Chekhov is revered for his ability to examine the social forces in his characters' lives. His virtuosity with the written word is on full display in this collection of his best stories that explore the euphoria and despair inherent in the process of fall ...Show more
Off on a Comet! by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Nearly a century before space travel captured the imaginations of science-fiction writers and readers, Jules Verne envisioned an incident in which a comet impact in the vicinity of Gibraltar sends a piece of the Earth on a two-year trip around the solar system. Thirty-six unsuspecting individuals of var ...Show more
Selected Letters by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
One of England's most popular novelists, Jane Austen wrote about life amid the gentry of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In her fiction, Austen analysed and satirized her world, particularly the expectations and duties of women in an unequal society. She was also a prolific correspondent, and he ...Show more
Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey; Bob Blaisdell (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the twentieth century. The Jamaican-born African-American rights advocated dismayed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers ...Show more
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theatre. Robert Burstein declared that "there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role." In The Cherry Orchard, his last full-length play, an impoverished landowning family is unable to face the fact that their est ...Show more
The Classic Tradition of Haiku by BOWERS
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Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
A highly distilled form of Japanese poetry, haiku consist of 17 syllables, usually divided among three lines. This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki and many more, in translations by top-flight scholars in the field. Editor Fa ...Show more
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald; James Daley (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Although better known today for his novels, in the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald ranked among the top writers of magazine fiction. Fitzgerald represented the dreams and aspirations of the post-World War I generation in his life as well as his works. With his glamorous wife, Zelda, and his cosmopolitan socia ...Show more
The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
All human behaviors and traits, according to this 1923 study, derive from the complicated interactions of three elements of the psyche: the id, the ego, and the superego. The root of Sigmund Freud's approach to psychiatric treatment resides in bringing the id, the hidden source of human passion, to the ...Show more
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Forsyte Saga chronicles the ebbing social power of the upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during the 1880s and ending in the early 1920s. The saga begins with Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor who buys land at Robin Hill on which to build ...Show more
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - The Classic Burton Translation by Vatsyayana; Richard F. Burton (Translator)
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Kama means desire, love, and lust; sutra means teachings and "verses." The Kama Sutra, then, is the book of love, teaching the best methods of cultivating sensual pleasure, sexual desire, and loving union. A classic of world literature for 1,700 years, this is the most explicit and fascinating book eve ...Show more
The Memorabilia by Xenophon
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Philosopher, soldier, and historian, Xenophon was a former student of Socrates who composed The Memorabilia many years after his teacher's trial and execution in 399 B.C. This collection of Socratic dialogues presents not the philosopher's actual defense to the Athenian court but rather a more general a ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Elliott
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A new, beautifully laid-out edition of George Eliot's 1860 classic.