The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• One of the great American writers whose works enjoy popular appeal as well as critical acclaim, F. Scott Lyric, highly readable novel traces the meteo... Lees meer

The Longer Poems

William Shakespeare

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• Although we know him best as a playwright, Shakespeare was also a poet, living as he did in an age when the writing of verse enhanced an author's lite... Lees meer

Kate Chopin the Dover Reader

Kate Chopin

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• A precursor of the twentieth century's feminist authors, Kate Chopin (1850-1904) wrote short stories and novels for children and adults. The St. Louis... Lees meer

The Father

August Strindberg

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• The stormy personal life of the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg was punctuated with duels between the sexes, with ruthless, aggressive women... Lees meer

The Cavalier Poets

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• In the mid-seventeenth century, the poets associated with the court of Charles I of England, known as the Cavaliers, were strongly influenced by the c... Lees meer

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile and Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter

Herman Melville

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• In this spirited saga, a promising young soldier is wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, sets sail with John Paul Jones, and undertakes espionage at ... Lees meer

My Inventions

Nikola Tesla

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• One of science's great unsung heroes, Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a prophet of the electronic age. His research laid much of the groundwork for moder... Lees meer

Essays on Teaching

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• Rich in insights and inspiration, this anthology surveys the challenges and rewards of teaching. Contributions range from essays by renowned educators... Lees meer

Select Short Fiction

Charles Dickens

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• Known and loved around the world for his vast and sprawling novels, Charles Dickens relished the opportunity to experiment with his shorter writings, ... Lees meer

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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• Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in the mid-nineteenth century, these philosophical essays were written by one of America's most celebrate... Lees meer

The Valley of Fear

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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• "Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that ... Lees meer

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

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• One of the earliest picaresque novels in English, Moll Flanders has both captivated and shocked countless readers since it was first published in 1722... Lees meer

A Bottomless Grave

Hugh Lamb

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• Preoccupied with death, and repressed in many areas of their lives, Victorians seem to have found an emotional outlet in ghost stories, eerie tales, a... Lees meer

Civil War Poetry

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• The long agony of the American Civil War inspired a wealth of contemporary verse -- from sentimental doggerel to sublime lyrics that rank among the fi... Lees meer

Alexander's Bridge

Willa Cather

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• Construction engineer and world-renowned bridge builder Bartley Alexander has everything in mid-life: wealth, good looks, and fame. Yet he finds himse... Lees meer

Wives and Daughters

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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• Molly Gibson is a small-town girl in England during the 1830s, kind-hearted but unwise in the ways of the world. Her widower father sends her to stay ... Lees meer

Summer

Edith Wharton

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• A naive girl from a humble background meets an ambitious city boy, and a torrid romance ensues. Despite her pride, independence, and honesty, Charity ... Lees meer

The Admirable Crichton

James Matthew Barrie

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• Once a month, Lord Loam encourages his servants to enter the drawing room for tea. This ritual defiance of tradition disturbs Crichton, the butler, wh... Lees meer

London Journal

James Boswell

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• Even if James Boswell hadn't written the The Life of Johnson, he would be famous for this memoir of eighteenth-century London life. Boswell arrived in... Lees meer

Droll Stories

Honoré de Balzac

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• Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, published in three installments in the 1830s, offers a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and man... Lees meer

Phèdre

Jean Racine

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• Based on Euripides' Hippolytus , this play by one of France's greatest playwrights is a magnificent example of character exposition. When the title ch... Lees meer

Five Comic One-Act Plays

Anton Chekhov

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• One of the foremost dramatists of the 19th century, Russian author Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) created a body of work noted for its realistic dialogue a... Lees meer

The Heart is Another Name for God

Renee Pittman

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• What if the heart is another name for God? The heart is the locus of physical and spiritual being, and represents the "central wisdom of feeling as op... Lees meer

Victory

Joseph Conrad

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• The world is a bad dog. It will bite you if you give it a chance, maintains Axel Heyst, a Swedish drifter in the Pacific islands. Heyst's attempt to r... Lees meer