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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is, perhaps, the most famous story by an American writer Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, the admitted author of "horror stories". "A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, ...Show more
Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A cavalry unit, having crossed the Sahara to relieve a besieged French Foreign Legion fort, arrives to an eerie silence -- the enemy has vanished, and the post's walls and ramparts are defended by dead men. The fort's commander, slain by a bayonet through the heart, clutches a letter that links the ridd ...Show more
Message to the People - The Course of African Philosophy by Marcus Garvey
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Category: Philosophy / Psychology | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In 1937, Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and one of the most controversial figures in the history of race relations, assembled his most trusted organizers to impart his life's lessons. For one month he instructed this elite student body -- at its peak the largest in ...Show more
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And t ...Show more
Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey; Bob Blaisdell (Editor)
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Category: Essays | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the twentieth century. The Jamaican-born African-American rights advocated dismayed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - In Poetry and Prose by Jessie L. Weston (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
While the knights of King Arthur's Round Table are toasting the new year, a colossal stranger clad in green armor bursts in to deliver a formidable challenge: Any of them may strike off the intruder's head as long as he is prepared to receive a similar blow from the Green Knight in one year. Of all the ...Show more
The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. Feminist critic Dale Spender calls it a forerunner of science fiction. It can also be read as a utopian work.As ...Show more
The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Shikibu Murasaki; Amy Lowell (Foreword by); Annie Shepley Omori (Translator); Kochi Doi (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Derived from the journals of an empress's tutor and companion, this unique book offers rare glimpses of court life in eleventh-century Japan. Lady Murasaki recounts episodes of drama and intrigue among courtiers as well as the elaborate rituals related to the birth of a prince. Her observations, express ...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 Professor by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
"The Professor", by Charlotte Bronte, was the author's first novel but it was not published until after her death (and perhaps she refashioned it to some degree later in her novel "Villette"). It is the tale of William Crimsworth, a man without parents and forsaken by his brother, who is forced to make ...Show more
The Shadow Line - A Confession by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
Only the young have such moments. I don't mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.One closes behind one the little gat ...Show more
The Souls Of Black Folk by W E B Du Bois
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Black History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1903, this extraordinary work not only recorded and explained history-it helped alter its course. Written after Du Bois had earned his Ph.D. from Harvard and studied in Berlin, these fourteen essays contain both the academic language of sociology and the rich lyricism of African spiri ...Show more