On Liberty and the Subjection of Women, Paperback - John Stuart Mill
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Two cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigious thinker who sharply challenged...
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Egil's Saga, Paperback - Anonymous
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Radio, Paperback - Al Smith
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The Canterbury Tales, Paperback - Peter Ackroyd
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Critique of Pure Reason, Paperback - Immanuel Kant
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The Vulgate Bible, Volume III: The Poetical Books: Douay-Rheims Translation - Swift Edgar
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Schopenhauer: A Biography, Paperback - David E. Cartwright
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The Major Works, Paperback - William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a ...
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The Qur'an, Paperback - M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
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Shakespeare's Body Parts: Figuring Sovereignty in the History Plays, Hardcover - Huw Griffiths
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Qur'an, Hardcover - Muhammad Abdel Haleem
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Wallace Stegner: Collected Stories, Paperback - Wallace Stegner
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Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Paperback - Various
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Theologia Germanica: Modern English Edition - Susanna Winkworth
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Literary Britten: Words and Music in Benjamin Britten's Vocal Works, Hardcover - Kate Kennedy
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Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926-1944, Paperback - Antal Szerb
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The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler, Paperback - Giles Milton
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The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories, Paperback - William J. Bennett
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Botchan, Paperback - Natsume Soseki
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Selected Poems: Donne, Paperback - John Donne
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The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories, Paperback - Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
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Theory of Religion, Paperback - Georges Bataille
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After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, Paperback - Andreas Huyssen
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation, Paperback - Anonymous
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The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea, Paperback - JaHyun Kim Haboush
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The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Paperback - Red Pine
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Fables of Aesop, Paperback - Alexander Calder
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On Sparta, Paperback - Plutarch
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The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam, Paperback - Omar Khayyam
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Tristes Tropiques, Paperback - Claude Levi-Strauss
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Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939, Paperback - Stephen Regan
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The Bront Sisters: Life, Loss and Literature, Paperback - Catherine Rayner
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Dialogues and Natural History of Religion, Paperback - David Hume
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David Hume is one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in English. His Dialogues ask if a belief in God can be inferred from what i...
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The Qur'an: English Translation and Parallel Arabic Text, Hardcover - M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
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The Merry Wives of Windsor: The Oxford Shakespeare, Paperback - William Shakespeare
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On Living and Dying Well, Paperback - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Stoner: A Novel - John Williams
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The Awkward Age, Paperback - Henry James
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Mother Goose Refigured: A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales, Paperback - Christine a. Jones
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Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain, Hardcover - Cindy Weinstein
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Ravelstein, Paperback - Saul Bellow
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Cat O'Nine Tails, Paperback - Julia Golding
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The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez, Paperback - Ann Swinfen
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The Story of French, Paperback - Jean-Benoit Nadeau
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The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen u...
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