Heart of Darkness/The Congo Diary

Joseph Conrad

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• A group of white men journeys up the Congo River to invade the jungles of the Belgian Congo, in an effort to rob the natives of their ivory. Lees meer

Letters on England

Voltaire

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• Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view ... Lees meer

The Book of Mormon

Joseph Smith

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• The spiritual text that forms the basis of Mormonism, in the last edition edited by its founder, Joseph Smith, Jr. The Book of Mormon is one of the mo... Lees meer

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman

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• Before his spectacular career as General of the Union forces, William Tecumseh Sherman experienced decades of failure and depression. Drifting between... Lees meer

American Places

Wallace Stegner, Page Stegner

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• A book about America by one of the greatest writers of the American West "This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how the America... Lees meer

Under Western Eyes

Joseph Conrad

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• "It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow... Lees meer

The Actual

Saul Bellow

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• "The work of a great master still locked in unequal combat with Eros and Time." - The New York Times Book Review A Penguin Classic In this dazzling wo... Lees meer

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

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• One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final... Lees meer

My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin

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• The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin beg... Lees meer

Fourteen Byzantine Rulers

Michael Psellus

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• The death of Basil II in A.D. 1025, after fifty glorious years as sole emperor, ushered in decades of turbulence, corruption, and incompetence. For th... Lees meer

The Log of a Cowboy

Andy Adams

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• Straightforwardly told, rich in detail, and laced with appealing campfire humor, Andy Adams's realistic The Log of a Cowboy is a classic portrayal of ... Lees meer

Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi

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• Pinocchio plays pranks upon the kindly woodcarver Geppetto, is duped by the Fox and the Cat, kills the pedantic Talking Cricket, and narrowly escapes ... Lees meer

Murder Trials

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• "Whereas the place for prejudice is a public meeting, a court of law is the adobe of truth." Cicero was still in his twenties when he got Sextus Rosci... Lees meer

The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights

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• The most significant translation in one hundred years of one of the greatest works of world literature From Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voya... Lees meer

Studies in Hysteria

Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer

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• Hysteria--the tormenting of the body by the troubled mind--is among the most pervasive of human disorders; yet, at the same time, it is the most elusi... Lees meer

Armadale

Wilkie Collins

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• When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he revea... Lees meer

On Living and Dying Well

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• Philosophical writings on "the good life" by the great Roman orator, in a vital new translation In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman ... Lees meer

Daisy Miller

Henry James

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• Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a ... Lees meer

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

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• Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration o... Lees meer

What Is Art?

Leo Tolstoy

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• This profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion.... Lees meer

Shirley

Charlotte Brontë

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• Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent a... Lees meer

Phineas Redux

Anthony Trollope

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• In the fourth of the 'Palliser' stories, Trollope follows Phineas Finn's return to the dangerous world of Westminster politics. When his political riv... Lees meer

Guy Mannering

Walter Scott

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• Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and social position. But th... Lees meer

Beowulf

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• The classic tale of monster-hunting, dragon-fighting Beowulf, here in its original Old English Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in... Lees meer