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100 Great American Short Stories by John Grafton (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A remarkable celebration of America's literary legacy, this superb selection includes the very best tales from the 19th and 20th centuries. Features "The Man With Two Lives," Ambrose Bierce; "The Locket," Kate Chopin; "Out of Season," Ernest Hemingway; "In a Far Country," Jack London; "The Fiddler," Her ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, usually known just as A Christmas Carol is a fairy-tale novel by a British classic Charles Dickens, that was published in 1843. It consists of five chapters, or staves as the author named them. Among all the stories about Christmas, A Christm ...Show more
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A Doll's House (Bokmål: Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month.The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th-centu ...Show more
A John Brown Reader by Dover Dover Publications
Category: History | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This original collection gathers a remarkably diverse body of literature about John Brown, the strident anti-slavery leader. Besides a selection of letters by the abolitionist himself, the book includes a significant excerpt from W. E. B. Du Bois's biography, John Brown, addresses by Frederick Douglass, ...Show more
A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
This contribution has made it's way to the great literature of the day and it is Edith Wharton's work, "A Son at The Front," its predecessors in greatness, "Men Like Gods" and "The Middle Road" sharing the laurels by reason of their themes and the treatment of these themes. "The Middle of The Road" and ...Show more
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this ...Show more
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Travel | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Which in different places are part absorbed by the earth, Part reach the sea, and being received within the plain Of its freer waters, beat the shore for banks. page] CONCORD RIVER. "Beneath low hills, in the broad interval Through which at will our Indian rivulet Winds mindful still of sannup and of sq ...Show more
Acrostic Poetry - The First-Ever Anthology by Michael Croland (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
In this first-ever anthology, more than 80 acrostics show the versatility of a storied poetic form that dates back to ancient times. In standard acrostics, the initial letters of successive lines spell out words when read vertically. Highlights include Lewis Carroll's acrostic about the namesake of his ...Show more
American Notes by Charles Dickens
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Written in response to Charles Dickens' travels in the United States in 1842,American Notesis a fascinating and often highly critical portrait of the young American nation. Dickens touches on subjects as diverse as Wall Street, the American prison system, slavery, and the American press.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce
Category: Classic | 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
Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Antichrist is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich K selitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo. The German title can be translated into English as both "The An ...Show more
Areopagitica and Other Prose Works by John Milton; C. E. Vaughan (Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
1927. The immediate occasion of the Areopagitica was the order of June 1643, by which Parliament reestablished the censorship of the Press. Milton's main object is to show the absurdity and iniquity of this measure, and to press for its repeal. But he does not confine himself within these comparatively ...Show more