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The Life of David Hume, Esq.
In April, 1776 David Hume, suffering from gastrointestinal disease and aware that the end was likely..
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The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story that depicts a future world in which most of huma..
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The Madman: His Parables and Poems
The Prophet is a highly original book of 26 fables written in prose poetry by Lebanese-American auth..
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
"The Prime Minister is my father's friend. The Foreign Minister married my sister. The Chancellor of..
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The Man Who Was Thursday
Written in 1908 and set in the Edwardian era, The Man Who Was Thursday is a classic suspense novel s..
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The Marvelous Land of Oz
The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second of L. Frank Baum's Oz books and the sequel to The Wonderful W..
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The Masque of the Red Death
First published in 1842, The Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe is an allegorical short story ..
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The Metamorphoses defies easy classification: it is a Latin narrative poem written in an epic style ..
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The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis tells the tale of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who one day wakes up t..
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The Misanthrope
Alceste, the title character of The Misanthrope, has little use for mankind, including himself, reje..
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The Miser
Harpagon, the title character of The Miser, is consumed byall aspects of his wealth. He makes money ..
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is considered the first detective story. Published in Graham’s Magazin..
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The Necklace
Madame Mathilda Loisel, the protagonist of The Necklace, aspires to the life of an aristocrat. Born ..
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The Nose
In 1722 Peter the Great introduced a system of positions and ranks for the military, the government,..
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The Odyssey of Homer
The Odyssey by Homer is an epic poem composed in part as sequel to The Iliad that tells the story of..
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The Oldest Code of Laws in the World
The Code of Hammurabi is a codification of the laws enacted by Hammurabi, the king of Babylonia and..
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The Overcoat
"We all come out from Gogol's ‘The Overcoat’". This statement by Fyodor Dostoyevsky expresses the gr..
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The People of the Black Circle
The People of the Black Circle is the eleventh of the Conan stories published by Weird Tales in thre..
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The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nafzaoui is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic l..
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The Poetics and Rhetoric of Aristotle
Poetics and Rhetoric together with Ethics and Politics constitute the pillars of Aristotle’s Practic..
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The Politics of Aristotle
Aristotle’s Ethics describes the means to the happy life of virtue intended by nature. In Politics h..
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The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli broke the mold when he wrote The Prince, an ostensibly traditional work in the s..
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The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper was Mark Twain’s first attempt at historical fiction, published in Canada,..
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The Problems of Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell is a concise and accessible guide to the basic concep..
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows began as a series of bedtime stories author Kenneth Grahame invented for his..
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
The image is popular and general: A young man sits under an apple tree. An apple falls, strikes him ..
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A Doll's House
A Doll’s House aroused a great deal of controversy when it premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenha..
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An Enemy of the People
The term “enemy of the people” has entered our modern lexicon, thanks to the unprecedented attacks o..
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The Metamorphoses defies easy classification: it is a Latin narrative poem written in an epic style ..
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A Shropshire Lad
The sixty-three short poems that constitute A Shropshire Lad conjure a pastoral countryside that is ..
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Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887
During the economic and social upheaval of the 1870’s and 1880’s the notion of a better social order..
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Robert Frost: Early Poems
Robert Frost: Early Poems combines the first two of Robert Frost’s published volumes. A Boy’s Will i..
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A Boy's Will
A Boy’s Will is the first book of poems by Frost, published in 1913 when he was in his late thirties..
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North of Boston
North of Boston was Frost’s second book, a collection of seventeen poems published in 1914. It ..
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost first published in 1923 by Henry Holt. It con..
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The Kama Sutra
The Kama Sutra is an ancient Hindu text considered by many as the first and perhaps still the best w..
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The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nafzaoui is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic l..
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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds,also known as Bird Parliament or Speech of the Birds, is a masterpiece o..
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Meditations on First Philosophy
The Meditations on First Philosophy, which carries the subtitle “In which the existence of God and t..
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title of a translation by Englishman Edward FitzGerald of poems ..
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