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A John Brown Reader by Dover Dover Publications
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Category: classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This original collection gathers a remarkably diverse body of literature about John Brown, the strident anti-slavery leader. Besides a selection of letters by the abolitionist himself, the book includes a significant excerpt from W. E. B. Du Bois's biography, John Brown, addresses by Frederick Douglass, ...Show more
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (PB) by Henry Thoreau
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
American author, naturalist, and abolitionist, Henry David Thoreau was a principal figure of the 19th century movement of Transcendentalism. Central to the philosophy is a belief that people, who are inherently good, are corrupted by the organized institutions of society and that consequently the best c ...Show more
Hunchback of Notre Dame by VICTOR HUGO
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Category: classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A gypsy girl's beauty and charm captivate a priest, a vagabond, a soldier, and a deformed bell-ringer, in a gripping tale that culminates in a riot and murder. A mad priest, a vagabond playwright, a social-climbing soldier, and a deformed bell-ringer -- all are captivated by a gypsy girl's beauty and ch ...Show more
Lady Susan, Sanditon and the Watsons by Jane Austen
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This volume presents three of Jane Austen's smaller works, treating readers to the author's timeless observations on life and love in nineteenth-century England. In Lady Susan, a beautiful and flirtatious widow seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself while attempting to push her daughter into ...Show more
Man and Nature - Or, Physical Geography As Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
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Category: science environment | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
An essential read for the next generation of environmentalists and climate scholars, this landmark text analyzes the impact of human action on nature by linking the environmental degradation of ancient Mediterranean civilization to the United States of the 1800s. Profoundly topical today as it was in 18 ...Show more
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Mrs. Dalloway is Virginia Woolf's best known novel. This landmark novel is a masterpiece. While the book seems to take place in a single day in the life of the eponymous Mrs. Dalloway, it is much more. Mrs. Dalloway is preparing for a dinner party to be held that evening. As she goes about her day, her ...Show more
State and Revolution by VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN
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Category: economics politics business | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and Revolution ...Show more
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
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Category: classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This bittersweet tale begins when the successful Professor Godfrey St. Peter and his wife move into a comfortable new house. On the eve of the move, Godfrey analyzes his life, family, and friends: his two daughters' marriages have removed them from the home, and the loss of his most outstanding student ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Gregory Zilboorg (Translator)
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Category: science fiction fantasy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A collectible hardcover centennial edition of the exhilarating Russian dystopian novel of totalitarian mass surveillance that inspired George Orwell's 1984, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen A Penguin Vitae Edition In a glass-enclosed city of abs ...Show more
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