American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings, Paperback

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With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity , " for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are ...

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The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope's account offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. This edi...

Reducere. Together in one place, this is a collection of most important works of Bhagat Singh, the Indian communist revolutionary who was executed by the Bri...

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Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry--the work of a man whose life lasted for ne...

Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an im...

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his critici...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James Allen"As a Man Thinketh" has long since been regarded as a classic. This short accessible work elucidates the power o...

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Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth centur...

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Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating compilation of weather forecasts, recipes, jokes, and aphorisms, Poor Richard's Almanack debuted in 1732. This new edition...

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An anthology of writings by legendary poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963). It includes a critical introduction, an account of variants, and an essay set...

Reducere. American Indian Stories (1921) is a collection of stories and essays from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Sá. Published while Zitkála-Sá was at the h...

Reducere. The mythology of the North America Indians is a cultural treasure trove, but many of these myths and legends have been hidden away in many old book...

'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental ...

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Reducere. First published in 1666, "The Blazing World", is both one of the first novels written in English and one of the earliest works of science fiction. ...

Reducere. The Campaner Thal And Other Writings, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have ...

Cherokee people like all other Native American Indian tribes possess a huge oral history. Before the time of written words, the history, customs an...

The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth, containing the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The...

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Reducere. "My Inventions" is a candid and illuminating autobiography of Nikola Tesla, one of the most important technological innovators of the modern indust...

Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his la...

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Reducere. Readers will recognize their favorite horror stories in the collection "The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings." Edgar Allen Poe was a master of su...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walt WhitmanEditor: Michael MoonWhile continuing to provide leading commentary on Whitman by major twentieth-century poets ...

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This edition of The Birth of Tragedy, one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period, presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and ...

Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon--with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation "5 ...

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A polemic writing by the famous ``Red Rosa`` Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1899) explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contrad...

Reducere. Includes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, pu...

The most complete collection of the work of Aphra Behn (1640-89) available, this volume contains Oroonoko and five other works of fiction ranging f...

Reducere. Aurelia is French poet and novelist G rard de Nerval's account of his descent into madness--a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis Native American history is a unique combination of autobiography and fiction which represents an attempt to merge cultural critique...

Reducere. DescriptionDashiell Hammett is the innovative master and inventor of hard-boiled fiction, an unsentimental style of American crime writing in which...

This volume illustrates the variety of William Morris's prose, while focusing on one theme: the earthly paradise. The "Nowhere" of News from Nowher...

Reducere. Designed especially for classroom use, this book brings together the best-known works of the nineteenth-century Indian writer William Apess, includ...

The compelling works of John William Polidori (1795-1821) such as "The Vampyre" and "Ernestus Berchtold", exerted a powerful hold over literature a...

Reducere. Thomas De Quincey was an English author during the Romantic movement, associating with writers like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth....

A title, in which, the author predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, wherein humans would disregard the limits of natural resources...

Reducere. In a series of lengthy letters, the unsettled and unruly Ethel Sutherland writes to an initially unnamed and ungendered correspondent, and patientl...

DescriptionFriedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most im...