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Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau's two great works together: the record of his experiment in simple living by Walden Pond, and his ringing argument for conscience over unjust law.

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The 2006 CIA World Factbook

The 2006 CIA World Factbook

The 2006 edition of the celebrated global almanac, profiling every nation's geography, people, government and economy in one clear reference.

$9.00

Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

A rigorous scholarly reconstruction of pre-Roman Britain and Caesar's two expeditions across the Channel.

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Beowulf

Beowulf

The great Old English epic of a hero who battles a monster, its vengeful mother, and finally a dragon, in Francis Barton Gummere's stately verse translation.

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Thus Spake Zarathustra

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche's visionary philosophical masterwork, in which the prophet Zarathustra descends to teach the overman, eternal recurrence and the transvaluation of values.

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The 2003 CIA World Factbook

The 2003 CIA World Factbook

A comprehensive almanac of the world's nations as they stood in 2003, gathering geography, population, government, economy and more into one indispensable reference.

$9.00

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

Mark Twain's immortal boyhood idyll: whitewashed fences, midnight graveyards, hidden treasure and a cave.

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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

A practical treasury of ready-made phrases and expressions, gathered to help writers and speakers reach for the apt word with grace, precision and a little more colour.

$9.50

The Confessions of St. Augustine

The Confessions of St. Augustine

Augustine of Hippo turns his life into a prayer, tracing a restless soul from youthful appetite to faith.

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A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or countr

A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or countr

Jonathan Swift's ferocious 1729 satire, straight-faced and monstrous, coolly proposing that the poor of Ireland sell their children as food.

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The Adventures of Roderick Random

The Adventures of Roderick Random

Tobias Smollett's boisterous eighteenth-century picaresque, following a young Scotsman through misfortune, sea voyages, and rogues aplenty in a raucous, satirical tour of Georgian

$9.50

The Two Magics

The Two Magics

Henry James pairs his celebrated ghost story with a lighter companion tale.

$8.50

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding's sprawling comic masterpiece follows a good-hearted foundling through misadventure, love, and English society toward the truth of his birth.

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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

Tobias Smollett's comic epistolary masterpiece sends a cantankerous squire and his household on a rollicking tour of eighteenth-century Britain, told through their clashing letters

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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete

Tobias Smollett's picaresque novel follows a charming, unscrupulous rogue as he cheats and connives his way across eighteenth century Europe.

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A Doll's House

A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen’s breakthrough drama turns a bourgeois marriage into one of modern literature’s sharpest studies of freedom, performance, and self-respect.

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Spoon River Anthology

Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology lets the dead of a small American town speak in piercing monologues of ambition, shame, desire, and regret.

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The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April

Elizabeth von Arnim's radiant novel of four very different Englishwomen who share a medieval Italian castle for a month, and find themselves gently transformed.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde’s sparkling social comedy turns false names, courtship, and perfect manners into one of the sharpest and funniest plays in English.

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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

The official Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F.

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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

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The Blue Castle

The Blue Castle

L.

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The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow

Robert W.

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Charles Bradlaugh

Charles Bradlaugh

The life of one of the most fearless reformers of his age, a champion of free thought and free speech who fought his way into public life.

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A Room with a View

A Room with a View

A Room with a View by E.

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The origin and development of the moral ideas

The origin and development of the moral ideas

A sweeping study of where our sense of right and wrong comes from, drawing on custom, law, and belief across many peoples.

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The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a respectable doctor and his monstrous alter ego, a taut and unsettling fable of the double life hidden within a single divided soul.

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Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Herman Melville's vast, oceanic masterpiece of obsession and the whale.

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The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors

Henry James's great late novel of Europe, self-discovery, missed chances, and the cost of a truly examined life.

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The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady

A spirited young American inherits a fortune and the freedom to choose her own life in Europe, only to find her choices narrowing.

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The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James’s gothic novella traps a young governess, two children, and a country house inside one of literature’s most unnerving studies in ambiguity, repression, and dread.

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Benito Cereno

Benito Cereno

Herman Melville's tense novella sets an American captain aboard a strange Spanish slave ship where nothing is as it seems, in a masterful, unsettling study of slavery, perception a

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Billy Budd

Billy Budd

Herman Melville's haunting final work.

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Omoo

Omoo

Herman Melville's rollicking sequel to Typee, following a restless sailor through the islands of the South Pacific.

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Typee

Typee

A sailor jumps ship in the South Pacific and lives among an island people both alluring and unsettling.

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The Blithedale Romance

The Blithedale Romance

A group of idealists retreats to found a utopian farming community, where high hopes tangle with jealousy and self-deception.

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Mosses from an Old Manse

Mosses from an Old Manse

Nathaniel Hawthorne's rich short-story collection gathers dark allegories and moral fables from his years in a Concord parsonage, probing sin, obsession and the shadowed corners of

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Twice-Told Tales

Twice-Told Tales

A gathering of short stories and sketches, by turns allegorical, eerie and quietly moral.

$7.50

The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables is a polished DotBooks classic novel for readers who want character, atmosphere, and enduring literary appeal in a clean digital edition.

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The Awakening

The Awakening

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The Custom of the Country

The Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton's brilliant social novel follows ambition, marriage, money, and status in Gilded Age America and Europe.

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Summer

Summer

A young woman coming of age in a stifling New England village discovers desire, freedom and its costs over one transformative summer, in a spare and sensuous classic of American re

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Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton's stark, unforgettable tragedy of thwarted desire.

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The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton’s great novel of New York society follows Lily Bart through wealth, scrutiny, desire, and social ruin with wit, elegance, and devastating precision.

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The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

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The Song of the Lark

The Song of the Lark

A gifted girl from a small Colorado town follows her voice toward the world of grand opera.

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My Ántonia

My Ántonia

Willa Cather's luminous elegy for the American prairie.

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O Pioneers!

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather's luminous prairie novel follows a strong-willed Swedish immigrant woman who tames the wild Nebraska land her father could not, and pays for her success in love and lo

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The Open Boat and Other Stories

The Open Boat and Other Stories

Stephen Crane turns his own shipwreck off the Florida coast into some of the sharpest short fiction in American literature.

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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Stephen Crane's stark, pioneering novella follows a young woman crushed by poverty and hypocrisy in the New York slums, an unflinching landmark of American literary naturalism.

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The Red Badge of Courage

The Red Badge of Courage

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The Deerslayer

The Deerslayer

In his youth on a wilderness lake, the hunter Natty Bumppo faces his first battles and his first hard moral tests.

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The Pioneers

The Pioneers

On the New York frontier, ageing woodsman Natty Bumppo clashes with the settlers and laws reshaping the wilderness he loves.

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The Pathfinder

The Pathfinder

The frontier scout Natty Bumppo guides a party through the Great Lakes country and, unexpectedly, into matters of the heart.

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The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

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The People That Time Forgot

The People That Time Forgot

A rescue expedition into the lost land of Caspak plunges its hero among dinosaurs, primitive tribes and a strange evolutionary mystery.

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The Warlord of Mars

The Warlord of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs’s high-velocity Barsoom adventure delivers rescue, warfare, romance, and classic planetary pulp.

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The Gods of Mars

The Gods of Mars

Earthman John Carter returns to a dying Mars and into the deadly heart of its cruelest religion.

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Tarzan of the Apes

Tarzan of the Apes

Orphaned in the African jungle and raised by great apes, a nobleman's son grows into a legend caught between two worlds, in Edgar Rice Burroughs's founding adventure of one of fict

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The Iron Heel

The Iron Heel

Jack London’s fierce dystopian-political novel confronts oligarchy, repression, class conflict, and revolutionary memory.

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