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The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
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Category: Literature | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In 1869, at the age of twenty-four, Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel, a remarkable position for one of his age. The Birth of Tragedy, published in 1872, was his first significant publication. It did little, however, to help his reputation as ...Show more
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald; James Daley (Editor)
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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 Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud; W. D. Robson-Scott (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Psychology Ser.
In The Future of an Illusion, Freud's psychoanalysis of religion is the culmination of a lifelong thought pattern. Freud examines human nature and the role of religion in society, proclaiming that human instincts are destructive to civilization and must be restrained to maintain an orderly society. Reli ...Show more
The Garden of HeavenPoems of Hafiz by Hafiz; Gertrude Lowthian Bell (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
"Hafiz has no peer." -- GoethePoetry is the greatest literary form of ancient Persia and modern Iran, and the fourteenth-century poet known as Hafiz is its preeminent master. Little is known about the poet's life, and there are more legends than facts relating to the particulars of his existence. This m ...Show more
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Although dour in appearance and formidable in reputation, Friedrich Nietzsche was an ardent practitioner of the art of poetry--known in twelfth-century Proven al as "the gay science." This extensive collection of prose and verse offers a sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views cent ...Show more
The Gilded Age - A Tale of Today by Mark Twain; Charles Dudley Warner
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It began as a dinner-party contest: when Mark Twain and his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner criticized the deplorable quality of their wives' reading material, the two writers were challenged to come up with something more intriguing. Thus, for the only time in his career, Twain collaborated on a novel w ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley's third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers a sweeping account of war, plague, love, and desolation. It is the sort of apocalyptic vision that was widespread at the time, though Shelley's treat ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Elliott
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A new, beautifully laid-out edition of George Eliot's 1860 classic.
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
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That day its beauty was an affront to me, because, like most Englishwomen of my time, I was wishing for the return of a soldier. Disregarding the national interest and everything else except the keen prehensile gesture of our hearts toward him, I wanted to snatch my Cousin Christopher from the wars and ...Show more
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Will Durant chronicles the lives and ideas of several key philosophical thinkers throughout history in this informative and eminently readable text. Beginning with Socrates and Plato and concluding with Friedrich Nietzsche, with twelve other prominent philosophers in betwee ...Show more
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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Recognized as one of the finest work of Hemingway, the novel revolve around a love story between the protagonist Jake Barnesand the promiscuous divorcée Lady Brett Ashley. The book displays and embodies the new sexual freedom that became typical of the 1920s.The book is set in the backdrop of Paris and ...Show more
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes; Carl Van Vechten (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems, immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release. Over ninety years after its publication, it remains a critically acclaimed literary work and still invokes a fresh, contemporary feeling and offers a powerful reflection ...Show more