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A Diary from Dixie - A Journal of the Confederacy, 1860-1865 by Mary Chesnut
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Category: History | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Born into Southern aristocracy, Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-86) married a rising star of the political scene who ultimately served as an aide to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. As a prominent hostess and popular guest in the highest circles of Confederate society, Chesnut possessed an insider's per ...Show more
Acrostic Poetry - The First-Ever Anthology by Michael Croland (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
In this first-ever anthology, more than 80 acrostics show the versatility of a storied poetic form that dates back to ancient times. In standard acrostics, the initial letters of successive lines spell out words when read vertically. Highlights include Lewis Carroll's acrostic about the namesake of his ...Show more
Behind a Mask - A Short Story Collection by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The author of Little Women and other beloved classics, Louisa May Alcott grew up in a community of New England transcendentalists that included Thoreau and Emerson. Because her learned but impractical father was a poor provider, she supported her family by writing magazine stories that were often publis ...Show more
Carry on, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Bertie Wooster's life is in disarray. He has just fired his personal valet for stealing and his fiancée Florence wants Bertie to destroy his uncle's memoirs. And then everything changes. He hires Jeeves as his valet and Jeeves takes charge. His taste is impeccable, his judgment infallible. Bertie and hi ...Show more
Great Stories from the German Romantics - Ludwig Tieck and Jean Paul Richter by Ludwig Tieck; Jean Paul Richter
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
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 ...Show more
In Our Time: Stories by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Hemingway made his North American literary debut in 1925 with In Our Time, his first collection of short stories and vignettes. Widely praised at the time for what later would be considered the author's hallmark style--uncomplicated, precise language with an eye for realism--the stories' themes of alien ...Show more
Lady Susan, Sanditon and the Watsons by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | 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
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
Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
William Faulkner's inspiration for his second novel, Mosquitoes (1927), was his involvement in the 1920s New Orleans creative community. Mosquitoes explores the themes of sexuality and the societal role of the artist as it follows a bohemian cast of characters on a four-day cruise aboard the yacht Nausi ...Show more
Selected Letters by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Biography | 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: Alexander Hamilton by HAMILTON, ALEXANDER
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Category: Biography | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This concise collection of the Founding Father's public and private writings provides an introduction to his life, personality, political career, and influence on the early history of the United States. Contents include Hamilton's political essays, selections from the Federalist Papers, First Report on ...Show more
State and Revolution by VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN
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Category: History | 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