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Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo's sweeping medieval romance, gathered around the great cathedral of Paris and the souls whose fates are bound to it.

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The Problems of Philosophy

The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell's classic short introduction to philosophy, a lucid, invigorating guide to the deepest questions about knowledge, reality and the limits of what we can be sure we

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The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

Sir Walter Scott's private journal, printed from the manuscript at Abbotsford, is one of the great diaries in English, candid, courageous and moving as the celebrated novelist face

$8.50

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The private meditations of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, written for himself alone.

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Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures delivered at Columbia University

Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures delivered at Columbia University

Edward MacDowell's lectures on music, delivered at Columbia University, in which the celebrated American composer reflects on the history and meaning of his art with a practitioner

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The Zeppelin's Passenger

The Zeppelin's Passenger

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Age of Innocence

Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a sophisticated classic about desire, marriage, social performance, and the hidden costs of respectability in Gilded Age New York.

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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2

The gathered poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the founding voices of English Romanticism.

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A History of Roman Classical Literature

A History of Roman Classical Literature

A comprehensive survey of the great writers of ancient Rome, from Plautus and Cicero to Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, tracing the rise and flowering of Latin literature.

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Charles Frohman: Manager and Man

Charles Frohman: Manager and Man

A biography of Charles Frohman, the great American theatrical producer who shaped Broadway and the London stage before his death aboard the Lusitania.

$8.50

An Elementary Study of Chemistry

An Elementary Study of Chemistry

A foundational chemistry textbook by William McPherson and William Edwards Henderson, introducing the elements, reactions, and laws of the science to beginning students.

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Children of the Whirlwind

Children of the Whirlwind

A story of the city's underworld and the struggle to rise out of it, where crime, love and the longing for a better life collide.

$8.50

From Chaucer to Tennyson

From Chaucer to Tennyson

A concise survey of English literature from the medieval age to the Victorian era, tracing its major writers and movements across five centuries.

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Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters; I to End. Colossians, Thessaloni

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters; I to End. Colossians, Thessaloni

A volume of careful, warm-hearted biblical exposition covering Second Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, and the letters that follow: scripture opened passage by pass

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A Victor of Salamis

A Victor of Salamis

William Stearns Davis's rousing historical novel of ancient Greece, set amid the Persian Wars and the great sea battle of Salamis, where courage and love are tested against the fat

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Following the Equator

Following the Equator

Mark Twain circles the globe on a lecture tour, notebook in hand, turning ocean crossings, colonial outposts and human folly into wry, watchful travel writing edged with anger.

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One of the Six Hundred

One of the Six Hundred

A tale of soldiering and valour that takes its title from Tennyson's immortal charge, where six hundred rode into the guns.

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Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day

Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day

Emile Cammaerts's sweeping history of Belgium, tracing the fortunes of a small but pivotal European land from ancient times to the modern era.

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Popular Education: For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes

Popular Education: For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes

A guide to education for parents, teachers and the young themselves — setting out principles for the forming of mind and character in a spirit of broad instruction.

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The Man Who Did the Right Thing

The Man Who Did the Right Thing

A novel turning on questions of conscience and moral choice, whose title promises a story of a man measured by his decisions.

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Blue-grass and Broadway

Blue-grass and Broadway

A novel by Maria Thompson Daviess set against the contrast of country and city life, its title playing rural Kentucky against the bright lights of the stage.

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The Life of King Edward VII

The Life of King Edward VII

A biography of Edward VII, the long-waiting heir who became king and gave his name to an age.

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Only a girl's love

Only a girl's love

A tender romance in the popular Victorian tradition, following the trials and devotion of a young woman's heart against obstacles of class and circumstance.

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Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf's luminous novel follows a single London day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, weaving memory, consciousness, and the shadow of the Great War.

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On Growth and Form

On Growth and Form

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's landmark work reveals the mathematics and physics behind the shapes of living things, uniting biology, geometry, and beauty.

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The Big Four

The Big Four

Hercule Poirot faces not a single killer but a global criminal conspiracy of four masterminds bent on world domination, in Agatha Christie's most unusual and action-packed Poirot a

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Fifty Years In The Northwest

Fifty Years In The Northwest

William H.

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Alcohol

Alcohol

A study of alcohol, its nature, effects, and place in human life.

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The Mystery of the Blue Train

The Mystery of the Blue Train

A wealthy heiress is found murdered aboard the luxury train to the Riviera, her famous rubies gone, and Hercule Poirot, a fellow passenger, takes up a case tangled in money, love a

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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A gathering of Emerson's essays, the works that carried American Transcendentalism to the world.

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Phaedo

Phaedo

Plato's account of Socrates' final hours, spent not in fear but in conversation about the soul and its fate.

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Black Beauty : $b The autobiography of a horse

Black Beauty : $b The autobiography of a horse

Anna Sewell's beloved horse tells his own life story, from green meadows to hard city streets.

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Civics and Health

Civics and Health

An early twentieth-century educational text linking good citizenship with public and personal health.

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The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II

The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II

Ovid's dazzling epic of transformation rendered into English blank verse across two volumes.

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Aladdin & Co

Aladdin & Co

A brisk American novel of enterprise, ambition, and fortune-making in a fast-growing town, told with wit and a keen eye for the schemes of its go-getting characters.

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Love-at-arms : $b being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty

Love-at-arms : $b being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty

Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling historical romance set in Renaissance Italy: a tale of honour, love, and intrigue among the courts and condottieri of Urbino, told with the master s

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Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres

Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres

Goethe's towering drama of a scholar who bargains with the devil, rendered into English in the meters of the original.

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The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy

The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy

A history of the Choctaw Freedmen, formerly enslaved by the Choctaw Nation, and the founding of Oak Hill Industrial Academy to educate their children.

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The Frontier in American History

The Frontier in American History

Frederick Jackson Turner's landmark essays advancing the frontier thesis, arguing that the moving edge of settlement shaped American democracy and character.

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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Diogenes Laertius's rich compendium of the lives, sayings and doctrines of the ancient Greek philosophers.

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Contemporary American Composers

Contemporary American Composers

A survey of American composers of its era, offering portraits of the musicians shaping the nation's serious music.

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The Aeneid

The Aeneid

Virgil's great Roman epic, following the Trojan hero Aeneas from the ruins of Troy toward the founding of a new destiny in Italy.

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The Birth of Tragedy

The Birth of Tragedy

Nietzsche's daring first book, which finds the origins of Greek tragedy in the clash between the Apollonian and the Dionysian.

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The Heather-Moon

The Heather-Moon

A romance carried along by open roads, wild landscapes and the pull of the heart, told in the graceful, atmospheric style of an earlier age of popular fiction.

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Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

A stirring retelling of the great heroic legends of Britain, from Beowulf to the deeds of Arthur and beyond.

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Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost

Shakespeare's sparkling early comedy of a king and his lords who forswear love for study, only to be undone by the arrival of a princess and her ladies.

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The Spy

The Spy

James Fenimore Cooper's Revolutionary War novel of a mysterious pedlar suspected as a British spy, torn loyalties and midnight risks in the contested no-man's-land of the Hudson.

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Fantômas

Fantômas

The first novel of the notorious French master-criminal Fantômas, a lurid and headlong thriller in which an elusive genius of crime terrorises Paris while a dogged detective pursue

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Life: Poem XXI

Life: Poem XXI

A short poem meditating on life itself, in the reflective lyric tradition.

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Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

Alexander van Millingen's classic survey walks the great land walls of Constantinople stone by stone, tracing the defences that guarded the Byzantine capital for a thousand years a

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At the mountains of madness

At the mountains of madness

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The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

Sax Rohmer's pulp thriller unleashes the criminal mastermind Dr.

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Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

The collected poetry of one of the Victorian age's finest voices, ranging from elegy and lyric to meditations on faith, culture, and loss.

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By Advice of Counsel

By Advice of Counsel

Arthur Train's engaging stories from the world of law, drawing on his own experience as a lawyer.

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The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

The final collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories gathers twelve late cases for the world's most famous detective, closing the canon with fresh puzzles and a few

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Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell

Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell

Dante's Inferno in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's celebrated English translation, following the poet's descent through the nine circles of Hell.

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The Grand Babylon Hôtel

The Grand Babylon Hôtel

Arnold Bennett's sparkling comic thriller set in a grand London hotel, where a millionaire's whim, a vanished guest and a tangle of intrigue turn luxury into high-stakes mystery.

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Pascal's Pensées

Pascal's Pensées

Blaise Pascal's unfinished masterpiece: fragments toward a defence of faith by one of history's great mathematical minds.

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The Railway Children

The Railway Children

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The Story of Paris

The Story of Paris

A narrative history of Paris, tracing the city's growth from its origins through the centuries of its splendour.

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